We have news of a big jobs boost for Dublin this morning, with US software company Qualtrics to create more than 350 jobs in the city centre. Charlie Taylor has the details, which include the company's plans for a substantial office development.
Bord Gáis Energy has renewed its naming rights agreement for the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, with the new sponsorship deal to run until 2026. Laura Slattery reports on the financial end of the arrangement.
Smurfit Kappa has been on the defensive after the government in hyperinflation-afflicted Venezuela took temporary control of the group's subsidiary there. Sources close to the company said there is no basis to claims from Venezuelan union officials that Smurfit Kappa gave employees paid holidays in July rather than keep them at work. As Joe Brennan reports, inflation is so high in the country and wages so low that workers are are widely relying on factory canteens to get enough to eat.
This week's Business Interview features legal services entrepreneur Dan Fox of Johnson Hana, who tells Barry O'Halloran about his lost career as a rock star and his new venture involving financial veteran, David Went and former Tesco chief executive Tony Keohane.
And still on radical career changes, Helen Waldron reckons the Foxrock nuns had their eye on her as a potential recruit before she made her escape to make it big in the world of Australian business. Padraig Collins tells her story.
Changing position
Changing position must be in the air in the Dublin senior men's football changing room too, with two of the panel due to face Tyrone on Sunday week moving to new jobs within the capital's financial world. Mark Paul reports.
China's presence in the Irish economy is growing, with this summer's investment by Beijing government-backed Zhongze Group in stockbroker Goodbody marking its first foray into the domestic financial sector. Joe Brennan surveys the extent of Chinese interests in the Republic across sectors spanning hotels, oil exploration to windfarms.
Mark Paul has pubs on his mind this week, in particular the newly brewed campaign from the multinational-dominated Drinks Industry Group of Ireland for a cut in excise duty in the forthcoming Budget that puts rural pubs at front and centre. Caveat i s unimpressed.
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