Ireland’s Best Employers 2024: The full list revealed as Pfizer is king and tech giants fall
Pfizer has knocked LinkedIn off the top spot as Ireland’s best employer, according to a comprehensive research project that studied more than 1,000 companies. The Sunday Independent/Statista list of Ireland’s 150 Best Employers is based on research on firms with more than 200 employees. In all, 6,500 workers across Ireland took part in the research project, which was organised by market-research company Statista. Read all Best Employers 2024 content, including case studies, analysis, and interviews in our Ireland’s Best Employers 2024 hub. Read all of Best Employers 2024 content, including case studies, analysis, and interviews in our Ireland’s Best Employers 2024 hub.
Source:Irish Independent
May 19, 2024 09:33 UTC
Dublin MEP candidate says European response to migration is 'shameful'
Michael BoltonAn MEP candidate has called the European response to the migration crisis "shameful". People Before Profit TD Brid Smith, who is a candidate in the Dublin constituency for the upcoming elections, criticised the response in Ireland and across Europe when it comes to migration. "The approach to migration is pretty shameful overall, they approach it without having humanity in mind. "When Simon Harris describes the festering nature of migration, that is a word you use when describing a septic wound. Ms Smith says this move would put Ireland's neutrality in danger, and has questioned why the Government are pursuing this.
Source:The Herald
May 19, 2024 09:27 UTC
Irish business tycoon and rugby record breaker Tony O'Reilly dies at 88
Tony O'Reilly, the Irish media tycoon and former H.J. Heinz Co boss who first rose to prominence as a record-breaking British and Irish Lions rugby player, died on Saturday at the age of 88. “Mr O'Reilly was a giant of sports, business and media and left permanent legacies in all three. He was a trailblazer and forged a path that many other international business figures from Ireland would follow,” Irish Prime Minister Simon Harris said in a statement. Born in Dublin in 1936, O'Reilly won his first of 29 rugby caps on the wing for Ireland at the age of 18.
Source:The Herald
May 19, 2024 08:47 UTC
Séamas O'Reilly: Don't Look Up's environmental message is ringing less hollow nowadays
Indeed, if you were to write a thesis on why Don’t Look Up didn’t work for me, you might well call it ‘Don’t Talk Down’. Increasingly, I feel one of Don’t Look Up’s major problems was timing. Don’t Look Up’s central conceit was that the prospect of an impact in six months should be enough to get The Powers That Be to take it seriously. The problem is I don’t quite know what to do with that information, let alone to fix the problem as an individual. I want to be clear that individual responsibility is a key component in whatever action we take against climate change.
Source:Irish Examiner
May 19, 2024 07:04 UTC
Sir Tony O’Reilly dies aged 88: former NZ Herald owner, Ireland rugby star and businessman
Sir Tony O'Reilly. Photo / Warren BucklandFormer British and Irish Lions rugby star Sir Tony O’Reilly, whose business interests once owned the New Zealand Herald, has died at the age of 88 following a short illness. O’Reilly’s career in media began when he bought Independent Newspapers (now Independent News and Media) in 1973 and became the publisher of the Irish Independent, the Sunday Independent and the Evening Herald. The New Zealand media operations would eventually merge with the Radio Network and become New Zealand Media and Entertainment. O’Reilly had other business interests besides media, including in the food industry where he was a chairman of food giant Heinz.
Source:The Herald
May 19, 2024 05:59 UTC
36 Reasons People Got Divorced After Less Than A Year
"We were living in a suite in his parents’ basement, a state over from where my family lives (about an hour away). My parents were going away for a week, and for a few of those days, my husband was going to a training session for his new job. He arrived first (she got off work at 11), and we sat on the couch watching a show about dinosaurs. On Halloween night, my husband said he’d made his decision and that I should meet him outside his work. But he, a human ice cube, said we were getting divorced and never speaking again.
Source:The Irish Daily Star
May 19, 2024 04:00 UTC
Ireland’s jobs market: Recruitment and salaries bounce back as confidence returns
Ireland’s jobs market: Recruitment and salaries bounce back as confidence returnsFirms want to keep the staff they have and are more than willing to make good salary counteroffers to stop talent leavingDublin's Docklands is home to prominent employers. Photo: GettySean Pollock Today at 03:30Eoin Connolly, operations director of recruitment firm Morgan McKinley, has seen it all regarding recruitment over the last four years. Early in the pandemic, there were real fears for the job market. But as time went on, companies, especially those in technology, became incredibly confident, and a hiring frenzy began.
Source:Irish Independent
May 19, 2024 01:56 UTC
Chris Heaton-Harris says he will not stand for re-election
He also thanked Rishi Sunak as well as former prime ministers Theresa May, Boris Johnson and Liz Truss. 1/2 — Chris Heaton-Harris MP (@chhcalling) May 18, 2024He added that he would be continuing to campaign for the Conservatives as the “only party that has and can deliver for the whole of the United Kingdom”. Mr Heaton-Harris was first elected as an MP in 2010. Later that year, Liz Truss appointed him as Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, a role he retained when Mr Sunak became Prime Minister. “Then, after long and detailed negotiations within Northern Ireland, we produced the Command Paper Safeguarding the Union which resulted in the return of Stormont and devolved government to serve the people of Northern Ireland.
Source:The Herald
May 18, 2024 22:28 UTC
Scottie Scheffler endures rough start to round three at Valhalla
Scottie Scheffler endures rough start to round three at ValhallaBy Phil Casey, PA Golf Correspondent, LouisvilleScottie Scheffler’s troubles switched from off course to on as his bid for back-to-back major victories suffered significant early blows at Valhalla. Scheffler went into the third round of the 106th US PGA Championship three shots off the lead after remarkably carding a 66 on Friday, just hours after being charged with assaulting a police officer. A record 78 players were in red figures after two rounds of a major championship, eclipsing the previous mark of 71 in the 2006 Open at Royal Liverpool. “I didn’t feel any buyer’s remorse out there,” Harrington said after a practice round with Rahm and Shane Lowry. “I honestly think at this stage you kind of need an independent adjudicator to come in and tell everybody what’s what.
Source:Irish Independent
May 18, 2024 21:21 UTC
Investigation after goose ‘impaled on a pole by youths’ near lake
By Jonathan McCambridge, PAPolice have appealed for information following an incident in which a wild goose was seriously injured in an attack in Co Armagh. A local group reported the goose had been impaled on a pole during the incident on Friday near the Lakelands area of Craigavon. A PSNI spokesperson said: “Police received a report of youths attacking and seriously injuring a goose in the Lakelands area of Craigavon shortly before 4pm on Friday. The Save Craigavon City Park And Lakes group said on social media the goose had been impaled on a white pole. The statement added: “These geese are a protected species and any attempt to harm them is a criminal offence.”
Source:The Herald
May 18, 2024 21:11 UTC
Sales at Bloomsbury soar thanks to the craze for 'romantasy' novels
Trend setter: Author Sarah J MaasSales at Bloomsbury have soared thanks to the craze for 'romantasy' novels. The trend was set by Bloomsbury's author Sarah J Maas, whose romantic fantasy book series Throne Of Glass and A Court Of Thorns and Roses have flown off the shelves. The publisher has also benefited from the 'Book Tok' phenomenon, in which social media influencers use Tik Tok to promote new books and authors. Bloomsbury – which is best known for the Harry Potter books – is expected to report annual sales of £329 million next week. The group was heralded as a Covid success story, cashing in as Britons locked down at home turned to books and audiobooks for comfort.
Source:Daily Mail
May 18, 2024 20:56 UTC
How can the UK catch back up with the US? HAMISH MCRAE
But UK-quoted companies still trade at a discount vis-a-vis US and continental European ones. The American dream: The UK should use its independence to try to copy the USHow big is it? Allow for this, and he calculates UK-quoted companies are still 17 per cent undervalued against their global peers. But if you look at investment by UK funds, the outflow of money has continued relentlessly since 2016. But let's not forget UK retail investors, which have another 11 per cent of the market.
Source:Daily Mail
May 18, 2024 20:55 UTC
Think like a fund manager and back FTSE 250 bargains - the shares experts are picking
Such is the growing optimism surrounding the UK markets that investment professionals are bargain-hunting in the domestically focused FTSE 250. The FTSE 250 enthusiasm has been further fuelled by this month's bid for engineering group John Wood. Last month, cybersecurity group Darktrace was snapped up by the Chicago private equity firm Thoma Bravo, in a deal seen as foreshadowing more FTSE 250 'acquisition activity'. But not all FTSE 250 names will face this fate and here are the routes to make the most of what seems to be their brighter future. But if you are looking for a longer-term option, Quilter Cheviot's Doherty points to the Janus Henderson UK Smaller Companies fund.
Source:Daily Mail
May 18, 2024 20:12 UTC
Scots Word of the Week: Arran water
But smuggling was still a concern in 1910: “The late Mr Patrick Murray says: ‘No notice of Arran at this time is possible without a reference to the making and smuggling of the famous ‘Arran Water’” (Stonehaven Journal). In 1995, Ayrshire Word reported: “With the recent opening of the £2.5m Arran Distillery at Lochranza, a tradition of whisky production is maintained … but this time it’s legal! ... Gillian McCreadie who runs Arran Whisky’s Visitor Centre … added: ‘Whisky is of interest to the islanders as Arran was involved in illegal trade for many years. We … managed to track down a Mr Lachie Mackinnon … to be there at the opening so that we could maintain a continuity with him and his forbears, William and Donald Mackinnon who were shot in 1837 for making their own “Arran water”’.”And Arran still “holds its own secrets of the past … home to some of the illicit stills that produced the infamous Arran water in the days of early distilling on the island”. (The Herald, 2023).
Source:The Herald
May 18, 2024 19:27 UTC
GOP in NW Georgia. Daddy and Son (and MTG)
Sad to get political news regarding northern Georgia from British and Hong Hong press, but that is what we have. Things got messy and as a result, MTG fired young Travis Loudermilk who has been in politics his whole life because of his father, Barry Loudermilk, GA- 11. Younger Loudermilk suddenly became a “liability” to MTG. “Who is Travis Loudermilk, the Republican nepo baby fired by MAGA queen Marjorie Taylor Greene? What seems to stand out is the continual breakdown of morals and ethics regarding dealing with fellow humans.
Source:Daily Mail
May 18, 2024 18:53 UTC