Our News

VOLUNTEER Join the magic and the madness of Castlepalooza as one of our volunteers. As a volunteer you will get to be part of the exciting creation & running of Castlepalooza. We offer different volunteer roles to suit what you want from your volunteer experience. WHAT TO EXPECT AS A VOLUNTEER All volunteers must provide a deposit of €75. This deposit will be refunded to you…

Volunteer with Purple Hare Theatre Company! When: Sunday July 8th and/or Sunday July 29th from 11.30am to 5pm at the latest. Where: Wood Quay Amphitheatre, Dublin Civic Offices, Dublin 8 (Google Map) Why volunteer? - Gain work experience in ushering, event management and theatre productions. - Support the Arts in your local community. - Be part of a fun event and Meet like minded people! - Support…

Volunteer with Purple Hare Theatre Company! When: Sunday July 8th and/or Sunday July 29th from 11.30am to 5pm at the latest. Where: Wood Quay Amphitheatre, Dublin Civic Offices, Dublin 8 (Google Map) Why volunteer? - Gain work experience in ushering, event management and theatre productions. - Support the Arts in your local community. - Be part of a fun event and Meet like minded people! - Support…

Limerick is to receive a major jobs boost as Indian tech support firm HCL reveals its hiring plans for the next six months. HCL Technologies is expanding into a new office on Roches Street, Limerick, which will result in the creation of as many as 100 jobs. According to the The Irish Times, a spokesperson for the company said that it will be bringing in 15…

From workload profiling to the three rules of indexing, these expert insights are sure to make your MySQL servers scream As with all relational databases, MySQL can prove to be a complicated beast, one that can crawl to a halt at a moment’s notice, leaving your applications in the lurch and your business on the line. The truth is, common mistakes underlie most MySQL performance problems.…

With 15 of the world’s top banks now operating in Ireland, Brexit could turn out to be an Irish blessing, rather than a curse. The Brexit vote, and subsequent signing of Article 50 by the reigning government in the UK, will have knock-on effects for every single industry, given the interconnected world of trade. The fastest-moving of these, it seems, is financial services. Several major banks…

Fintech firm Global Shares is planning a global expansion across its 10 offices, bringing staff numbers to more than 200. Following significant growth, Global Shares has announced that it plans to hire 80 staff in a major expansion at its offices in Clonakilty, Cork city, Dublin, London, Edinburgh, Portugal, Germany, New Jersey, California and Hong Kong. A spokesperson for the fintech software firm – which is…

A new Ericsson Mobility report foresees continued rapid growth of mobile connectivity as global mobile data traffic increases to eight times its current level by 2022.This traffic is the equivalent of:– The population of Spain streaming HD video 24 hours per day for a month– A single subscriber streaming HD video continuously for 3.55 million years– 31 billion hours of continuous HD video streamingFor the next…

A new commodity spawns a lucrative, fast-growing industry, prompting antitrust regulators to step in to restrain those who control its flow. A century ago, the resource in question was oil. Now similar concerns are being raised by the giants that deal in data, the oil of the digital era. These titans—Alphabet (Google’s parent company), Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft—look unstoppable. They are the five most valuable…

Smartbox Group, a provider of online gift vouchers, has announced plans to hire 100 staff as part of a new office expansion in Dublin. Smartbox Group is one of the biggest online gift voucher firms in Europe, with €1bn worth of business created in 2016 and 6.5m gifts purchased across 10 countries. Now, with 2,000 sq ft added to its office in Dublin, Smartbox is set…