IRISH MED-TECH STARTUP Fire1 has raised €40 million to bankroll the next phase of its research and development. Foundry Innovation & Research 1, also known as Fire1, was founded nearly five years ago ...

A ROMANIAN SALAD-BAR franchise chain has launched its first restaurant in Ireland as part of plans to expand across the country. Salad Box opened its first Irish outlet in the Douglas Village Shopping ...

WITH AMBITIONS TO grow its Irish headcount to 3,000 workers, PayPal has been busy recruiting new staff. But the payments giant has also been forced to intensify its focus on retaining existing ...

WE ALL KNOW the television ad by now – a precocious, bespectacled youngster in a coffee shop giving out to a young women for opting for a “nut-milk latte” over the traditional, dairy option. The ...

GALWAY IS GRADUALLY positioning itself as a home for fintech startups looking beyond Dublin. Last week, New York-based blockchain firm Blockdaemon chose Galway as its first European location over ...

BLACK SHAMROCK COULD be the hottest young Irish gaming company that you’ve never heard of. Tucked away in offices on Dawson Street in Dublin, the firm was co-founded by Frenchman Olivier Masclef in ...

AN IRISH-FOUNDED LANDSCAPING firm has installed several pitches that will be used at the upcoming World Cup finals in Russia. SIS Pitches, which was set up over 16 years ago, currently employs more ...

PLANS TO SLAP a minimum five-year expiration date on all gift cards have been set in motion. The Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphreys, has announced that she will soon ...

WHILE THE OUTBREAK of the coronavirus that causes Covid-19 has wreaked havoc in international markets, it has “more than doubled” business at Irish company Novaerus, according to Kevin Devlin, the CEO ...

FRESH OFF RAISING $250 million in its latest funding round, restaurant software and hardware startup Toast plans to double the number of staff at its Dublin office this year. The Boston-based outfit ...

Tools of the Trade: Stephen O’Reilly of GROWN clothing, on balancing business and life as a full-time firefighter EVERY WEEK, FORA gets inside the heads of some of Ireland’s top entrepreneurs to gain ...

As the pressure of being at the top grows, there is no one-size-fits-all model of effective leadership. THE PERSONALITY TRAITS that help leaders climb to the top of the career ladder can be the same ...