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Carrigaline, south of Cork city, is experiencing challenges familiar to many dormitory areas that enjoy rapid growth ...
News Ireland » Cork » Economy: Entries sought from Cork entrepreneurs for national small business awards
Small firms, employing less than 50 people, have from September 3 until October 23 this year to enter. There is also an option to nominate a business ...
News Ireland » Cork » Economy: Alan Healy: The varied afterlife of Ireland's churches as one in Cork hits the market for €375k
Protected from demolition but increasingly hard to sell, Ireland's closing churches are creating a property problem nobody has fully reckoned with.
News Ireland » Cork » Economy: More than 300 pubs have closed in Cork since 2005
Report compiled by DCU Economist and Associate Professor Emeritus at DCU, Anthony Foley, shows that 2,205 premises - or one in four - closing their doors ...
News Ireland » Cork » Economy: Irish economic miracle explained: Why all that glitters isn't gold
When Ireland's GDP figures for 2025 came in, a startling 12.3% in real terms, many spoke of a fresh economic miracle. The number, taken at face value, looks extraordinary: no advanced economy grows in ...
News Ireland » Cork » Economy: Ireland’s ‘economic miracle’ at risk from tariffs
A sign for US pharmaceutical giant Johnson and Johnson in Ringaskiddy, near Cork, southern Ireland, an area which has attracted many US pharma giants in recent years ...
News Ireland » Cork » Economy: Irish Economy Resilient but Challenges Loom, Central Bank Warns
DUBLIN (Reuters) -Ireland's central bank on Thursday said it had revised its forecast for domestic economic growth for 2025 upwards to 2.9% from 2.0%, boosted by government spending and new data that ...
News Ireland » Cork » Economy: Ireland’s Economic Forecast for 2026: A Positive Outlook Amid Global Risks
Ireland’s economy is positioned to continue its expansion trajectory in 2026, driven by resilient domestic demand and robust labour market fundamentals. Outlooks from major financial consultancies, ...
News Ireland » Cork » Economy: Niall MacCarthy: Cork Airport is ready for next step of development to take off
The past week has been an important one for Cork's transport infrastructure, with the official opening by the Taoiseach of the new platform at Iarnród Éireann’s Kent Station and the launch of public ...
News Ireland » Cork » Economy: Cork urgently needs an Uber service to halt economic decline in towns and villages – Councillor Sean O'Donovan
THe high number of taxi drivers who have given up the trade following COVID and the stringent rules on drinking and driving need a radical solution in order to save Ireland’s social fabric, a Cork ...
News Ireland » Cork » Economy: Hotel will be huge shot in the arm to economy
This is fantastic news for the people of the town and general locality, who have been crying out for hotel facilities since the closure of the Deerpark Hotel in 2004. Work ceased on the building some ...