A ladies business seminar focusing on 'business wellness' will take place on Wednesday 21 July at the Grove House Health Spa, Shanballymore, Co. Cork. The seminar is free but places are limited so please register beforehand. The seminar promises to equip business people in all professions with the tools for personal and business wellness.

If you know Facebook, you know they have been refining their service for the past few months allowing people to 'Like' your photos, your status updates and now very recently people can 'Like' a comment you've left under someone else's photo or status update. Lots of Likes and they're not stopping there.

Within the last three years, 29 per cent of construction professionals based in Ireland have emigrated to find work. Hays, the world's leading recruiting experts in qualified, professional and skilled people, surveyed 1,199 individuals with a construction background in June 2010.

Tourism in Cork has taken a further blow with the news that Ryanair is set to cut routes to the city this winter by 17 per cent. Routes are also being cut in both Shannon and Dublin is set to further impact upon a Tourism industry, which has faced difficulties from declining numbers both before and after the ash cloud earlier this year.

Location is often cited as a key consideration for anyone considering delving into the property market. It is also, however, a major weapon in any good business' armoury in tackling economic difficulties and maintaining a strong employee base. Opting for a location outside main urban centres for a business has many advantages, according to John Connolly, Commercial Director with SouthWestern, a business outsourcing company based in West Cork

Labour Party Senator for Cork South-West, Michael McCarthy, has called on the Government to account for the spiralling rate of youth unemployment. Speaking during the Order of Business in Seanad Éireann recently, Senator McCarthy called for a Government jobs strategy to be drawn up.

Four companies a day went out of business in the first six months of this year, according to new figures. They also show that the number of companies unable to honour their debts was 27 per cent higher between January and June, compared to the same period last year.

A novel approach to reducing food costs is being taken by a North Cork man. Tom O'Brien is cutting out the middle-man and selling his free range eggs direct to the public, through vending machines. Tom, who farms 5,000 free range hens in Whitechurch, was the joint winner in the start-up category of the Teagasc/JFC competition for rural innovation.

Calls by the Cork Chamber to move ahead on an upgrade for the N28 have been echoed by a local TD. A report commissioned by the Chamber recently described the planned upgrade of the N28 Cork to Ringaskiddy route as a "key catalyst project" and Fianna Fáil TD, Michael McGrath has given his backing to the project.

Cork-based Trend Micro EMEA Limited, a global leader in Internet content security, has announced the acquisition of online storage and data synchronisation company humyo, based in Leeds, UK. The financial terms have not been disclosed.