The Science Foundation Ireland announced at a board meeting held in Cork this week that its research commitments have exceeded €1 billion, following a record year of funding investments in 2007, amounting to the sum of €365.3 million.

Flexible Mortgages based in Blackpool on the northside of Cork have built up a solid reputation in recent years offering as they do a wide range of financial and insurance services.

The board of Scottish & Newcastle, the parent company of Beamish & Crawford, have agreed to recommend an offer by Heineken & Carlsberg to buy the company to its shareholders.

Two of Ireland's 'leading specialist agencies', H+A Marketing Group Limited and O'Sullivan PR Limited have announced their merger.

With the boom experienced in wooden flooring across the country in recent years a wide variety of providers and installers have come and gone.

The economic growth experienced in Ireland during the mid-90's had many far-reaching consequences for what was, up until then, one of Europe's poorest countries.

Having started in Sunny Spain helping many Irish Clients to their own place in the sun , Chris Aherne has decided to make the world his oyster and he now provides a service to irish clients sourcing on their behalf propertys to purchase for lifetstyle and investment in over 20 destinations worldwide and expanding . "It was time to provide a one stop centre for Overseas Property in Cork and we called it OverseasCork"

A Cork-based SIM card producer has revealed its plans to launch a €99 dual-mode GSM/Wi-Fi mobile phone which will allow users to call each other for free using wireless broadband.

Irish companies utilising Enterprise Ireland's Productivity Improvement Fund invested €68m over the past 12 months to remain competitive.

Mark Hopkins, Managing Director of Hopkins Communications, one of Cork's leading communications firms, is one of a new generation of media heads with their sights firmly set on offering the total media package to clients.