Government should set up a State agency with specific responsibility to grow and develop SMEs says a new Economic Report from the Local Jobs Alliance. The Alliance is an umbrella group of seven leading trade organisations whose members make up 24,850 businesses who employ 448,000 people throughout Ireland. The organisations […]
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Fine Gael Senator Tim Lombard has urged small and micro businesses across Cork to apply for the new €250m Restart Grant, which will give direct grant aid to help them with the costs associated with reopening and reemploying workers following COVID-19 closures. The Cork Senator said: “The Restart Grant is […]
Teagasc is starting a series of food industry development webinars, commencing on Tuesday morning, May 19 at 9.30am. The series will open with a discussion on ‘New Food Product Development’ hosted by Teagasc specialists, Carol Griffin and Eddie O’Neill, Teagasc followed by a question and answer session. Head of the […]
Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM), Ireland’s seafood development agency has announced that recruitment is underway for this year’s Aquaculture Accelerator programme. The two-week programme, managed by aquaculture accelerator Hatch and funded under the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund, is taking place in the RDI (Research, Development, Innovation) Hub in Killorglin, Co […]
Entrepreneurs and businesspeople Jamie Heaslip, Allan Beechinor and Yolanda Cooper to ‘Zoom’ in on keeping pace and always moving forward in business life. Glandore, facilitators of high-end flexible workspaces and serviced offices in Dublin, Belfast and Cork, will ‘Zoom’ in on future-focused learnings from some of Ireland’s trail-blazing entrepreneurs and […]