Credit 'isn't main problem' for hotels
Source: Independent
Dublin :: Ireland | updated 2013-05-23 21:15:13 -0700 | business-news
In a new survey compiled for the bank, 29pc of senior hotel executives said wage costs was their top concern, but only 5pc cited access to finance. Other big worries included the high cost of local authority rates and utilities....
Irish retailers making 15pc of sales online
Source: Independent
Dublin :: Ireland | updated 2013-05-23 21:16:25 -0700 | technology-news
A new survey by Retail Ireland has found that the challenged sector is increasingly focusing on online sales in a bid for new business. The vast majority of those surveyed already have their brand online in some form or another...
Mortgage lending slumps two-thirds in first quarter
Source: Independent
Dublin :: Ireland | updated 2013-05-20 08:38:57 -0700 | business-news
The latest figures from the Irish Banking Federation show that so far this year lending is running at lower levels than at any time in 2012. There were just over 2,000 mortgages approved in the first three months of the...
Tumblr's David Karp: Home-schooled, Yahoo! billion-dollar visionary
Source: Independent
Dublin :: Ireland | updated 2013-05-20 06:50:52 -0700 | technology-news
David Karp was one of the richest of internet entrepreneurs before he sold his Tumblr website to Yahoo! for $1.1bn. Former Google exec says he has 100,000 emails exposing 'immoral' tax avoidance A former Google executive-turned-whistleblower says he has 100,000...
Billionaire investor Wilbur Ross calls stake in Bank of Ireland ‘best' investment
Source: Independent
Dublin :: Ireland | updated 2013-05-20 05:39:21 -0700 | business-news
In a broad ranging interview the Bank of Ireland board member said Bank of Ireland and the Irish economy are performing far better than forecast when the banking system was stress tested by Blackrock I think Bank of Ireland is...
Elan strikes more deals, agrees second share buyback
Source: Turks and Caicos Free Press
Dublin :: Ireland | updated 2013-05-23 22:20:44 -0700 | business-news
Kelly Martin, President and CEO of Elan, speaks at the Reuters Health Summit in New York November 17, 2008. Irish drug firm Elan agreed on Monday to buy two private drug firms, spin-off its one experimental drug and buy back...
Homeowners can move and keep their tracker mortgages
Source: Independent
Dublin :: Ireland | updated 2013-05-23 22:23:05 -0700 | business-news
Trackers are so cheap at the moment that the 375,000 homeowners who have them are reluctant to move house because they will lose the valuable mortgage rate. Now the Irish Independent has learned that Bank of Ireland is to let...
Hapless Galway look like an easy touch in qualifiers
Source: Independent
Dublin :: Ireland | updated 2013-05-23 22:23:34 -0700 | sports-news
They were the team with everything to lose; going to the home ground of their oldest rivals as roaring-hot favourites, playing a Galway side that appeared to put all their focus into this one match. But James Horan has clearly...
McNamee still taking it one step at a time
Source: Independent
Dublin :: Ireland | updated 2013-05-19 21:36:18 -0700 | sports-news
Just over 18 months ago McNamee finally reached breaking point with the gambling addiction that was sucking the marrow out of his daily existence.
German giant powers on in face of recession
Source: Independent
Dublin :: Ireland | updated 2013-05-19 21:15:08 -0700 | business-news
But the inelegant little car (or The Love Bug, as Disney called it in the movie) was only a small step in the construction of the VW Corporation of the 21st Century, the biggest European carmaker and the second biggest...
Arsenal hold their nerve to secure Champions League spot
Source: Independent
Dublin :: Ireland | updated 2013-05-19 11:32:57 -0700 | sports-news
Arsenal of a place in the Champions League qualifiers with the only goal in a tight encounter at Newcastle. Fergie pours scorn on City decision to sack Mancini Alex Ferguson prepared for his final game in charge of Manchester United...
Rory Best to captain 28-man squad on tour of North America
Source: Independent
Dublin :: Ireland | updated 2013-05-19 04:48:12 -0700 | entertainment-news
Our aim is to try and come back' Higgins Keith Higgins has watched last year's All-Ireland once. He went through the ordeal about a month after the loss to Donegal, but Mayo players don't need a DVD to remind them...
All change as season slips away
Source: Independent
Dublin :: Ireland | updated 2013-05-19 00:15:34 -0700 | sports-news
With a sturdy 10-point lead as they go into today's closing fixtures, Manchester United secured their 20th title with unexpected ease, and Manchester City were a grave disappointment to anyone who imagined they would be able to build on their...
Spotting the opportunity made Mary a high-flyer
Source: Independent
Dublin :: Ireland | updated 2013-05-18 22:25:31 -0700 | business-news
The business, set up in 1995, has grown to become Ireland's leading specialist holiday company, focusing on holidays to North America as well as offering worldwide cruises.
PAC draws blood from top cop
Source: Independent
Dublin :: Ireland | updated 2013-05-18 22:25:20 -0700 | business-news
Garda Commissioner Martin Callinan, an old hand at winning Oscars at Oireachtas hearings, is a clone for the star of the movies Bridge On The River Kwai, Tunes Of Glory and other chart-toppers. Apart from being an Alec Guinness lookalike,...
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