Richard Bruton

US technology giant Apple intends to create 500 support jobs in Cork, southern Ireland, the government said on Friday.

Ireland's trade surplus hit a record high in 2011, increasing by 3.0 percent to 44.697 billion euros ($58.347 billion) compared with the previous year, official data showed on Friday.

Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny held talks Sunday with China's Vice President Xi Jinping as the second day of his visit to the eurozone member focused on trade and investment and the signing of a number of bi-lateral deals.

Twitter, the San Francisco-based micro-blogging website, is to open an international office in Dublin, the Irish Industrial Development Agency announced -- in a tweet.

Ireland must consult lenders over change to economic policy under international bailout deal. Ireland must consult the IMF and European authorities over any major change to its economic policy, according to documents disclosed Wednesday outlining details of the country's international bailout.

Outraged Irish opposition politicians and commentators lambasted Prime Minister Brian Cowen for agreeing to the terms of an EU-IMF rescue deal they slammed as a "sell-out".

Ireland pumped in billions of extra euros to prop up its troubled banking system Tuesday as its finance minister warned his "worst fears have been surpassed" about how recklessly bankers had behaved.

Ireland pumped in billions of extra euros to prop up its troubled banking system Tuesday as its finance minister warned his "worst fears have been surpassed" about how recklessly bankers had behaved.