Advertisement

Readers like you keep news free for everyone.

More than 5,000 readers have already pitched in to keep free access to The Journal.

For the price of one cup of coffee each week you can help keep paywalls away.

Support us today
Not now
Friday 31 March 2023 Dublin: 10°C

# Creation

All time
# applications at the ready
Good news: Ireland is set for 1,500+ new jobs
Five companies have announced they will be creating positions.
# concoction
This Guinness float looks absolutely phenomenal
Chocolate, Guinness, ice cream, Jameson, caramel…
# jobs watch
Eddie Rocket's to create 50 new jobs with new fast-food franchise
Two new restaurants will offer more of a fast-food experience and will be named simply ‘Rocket’s’.
# Creation
A fridge that monitors medicines takes top prize in Ireland's first hardware hackathon
More than 120 people participated in the event, which saw groups invent and develop a project over the space of two days.
# Game on
Microsoft said to be close to buying Minecraft makers for $2 billion
The company is said to be close to buying the makers of the open-world game in a deal that could be completed this week.
# Jobs
Forfás dissolution will 'strengthen capacity and drive job-creation policy'
Under the new legislation, the functions of the quango will be transferred to Enterprise Ireland and IDA Ireland.
# Clever
Things to do when you’ve been laid off: build a submarine
Chinese man is now selling his mini submersible vehicles to fishermen so they can catch lucrative sea delicacies.
Voices
Sitdown Sunday: 7 deadly reads
The very best of the week’s writing from around the web.