Company Formation Ireland

Ireland’s services sector expanded at a strong pace again in February, driven by rising domestic demand as new business from abroad slowed, a survey showed on Wednesday. Ireland’s economy is forecast to be the fastest-growing in the European Union again this year and data released so far in 2015 has shown growth may be less reliant on strong exports, with unemployment falling, tax receipts soaring and reta [...]

By Chris Horn: Irish Times 2/03/2015 ‘Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.” This quote is often attributed to Albert Einstein although there is some doubt that he actually distilled the observation so succinctly. Rather less simply – when discussing the methods of theoretical physics in 1933 – he asserted: “It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make [...]

Pharmaceutical firm Horizon Pharma today announced 60 new jobs at the official opening of its global headquarters in Dublin. The positions will be created in the areas of Research and Development, supply chain and finance, over the next three years. Horizon Pharma chief executive Timothy Walbert said Dublin has a deep pool of talented young people, from which the company can draw. “The opening of our new c [...]

The fledgling businesses are all part of Enterprise Ireland's 2014 High Potential Start-Up programme. Funded by the Department of Jobs, the programme supports new export-oriented companies, based on technological innovation, likely to achieve annual sales of €1m and employ ten within three years. The companies accepted onto the programme during last year span a range of sectors, from software and services, [...]

This will give Ireland the fastest growth in the European Union and well above the forecast 1.3% growth for the euro zone. Earlier in the week the Central Bank raised its growth forecasts to 3.7% this year and 3.8% in 2016. In its Winter Economic Forecasts, the European Commission said that Ireland's gross domestic product grew by 4.8% in 2014 - well ahead of the rest of the bloc. It also forecast a contin [...]