Weddings can prove to be an expensive business, especially if you don't have the right contacts and it comes as no surprise that more and more brides and grooms are beginning to look at ways of cutting costs for their big day without having to compromise on those little extras.

The South Cork Enterpise Board this week honoured seven local IT Companies with Business Development Certificates for taking part in an eight month long IT Business Development Programme which finished last month.

Employees in the Cook Street Specsavers recently receive the prestigious FÁS Excellence Through People Gold Standard Award.

In a urHired.ie survey of 100 employers carried out by Focus One, 54% of employers said they noticed a significant increase in the number of CVs being sent to them in the first half of 2008 compared with the same period in 2007.

Cork Chamber, in partnership with BT Ireland, is currently seeking nominations for Cork Company of the Year. This year, there are three Award categories - Cork Company of the Year, Cork SME of the Year and Emerging Cork Company of the Year.

Deloitte recently announced that it is to create 30 graduate positions for the coming year in its Cork and Limerick offices.

Few could claim to be as dedicated to and knowledgeable of the hotel industry as Michéal Stapleton, General Manager at the Radisson SAS Hotel and Spa, Cork.

Education, education, education. It may have been Tony Blair's mantra but it could equally apply to West Cork man Ray O'Donovan.

A Cork company who manufacture jam have won three prestigious gold's at The Great Taste Awards, often dubbed the Oscars of the Food Industry.

Small and medium sized companies in the City and County should urgently examine if they are entitled to supports which are currently available from Enterprise Ireland, according to Fianna Fáil TD and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Micheál Martin, TD.