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The article focuses on Pursuit, a leading EPOS software provider for the jewelry trade, announcing the appointment of Mike Oldroyd as its new account manager amid unprecedented growth. It mentions that Pursuit highlights its all-in-one point-of-sale and payments product, PursuitPay, designed specifically for jewelry retailers, manufacturers, and wholesalers, aiming to streamline transactions and improve customer experience.

Bertie Ahern is that rare being - a politician who doesn't publicly aspire to halo status and, consequently, enjoys the friendship of not just those within his own party but [...]

A country-by-country review of taxation in Europe reveals the specific developments in each country in the continent. In the UK, the most significant news is the elimination of tax officers available to help with the self-assessment tax approach, which some find too difficult to do without aid. Over in Italy, excessive taxation and government bureaucracy are blamed for the high rate of tax evasion. The tax environments in Austria, Belgium, Holland, Finland, Spain, Portugal, Germany, Ireland, Denmark, France, Greece, Luxembourg and Sweden are also discussed.

What is the theme of your latest book The Glass Lake? It's really about a mother-daughter relationship. Like all of my hooks it's set in the 1950s - I was [...]

HE'S AN UNUSUAL BRAND OF IRISHMAN--a non-drinking, non-smoking, confirmed tea-drinking millionaire, a man who happily admits he came into politics late and by accident after a glittering career in show [...]

In a ringing defense of British security police, Mr. Rifkind claimed that just one percent of the area's 1.4 million people were affected by terrorism.The remaining 99 percent, he said, [...]

* It is probably one of the most exciting an comprehensive collections of its kind in the world, located in the heart of Dublin and named earlier this year as [...]

Brody Sweeney has a vision: to make his O'Briens Irish Sandwich Bars a global player, outstripping the dark brew known as Guinness as Ireland's best-known international brand. Too ambitious? More [...]

Over the last several years, audit committees have fine-tuned their oversight relative to internal controls and financial reporting, but as this process has matured, many committees are asking broader questions [...]

Ireland Fund has grown from a small fund-raising organization in 1976 into a huge group that operates in countries such as Japan, New Zealand, South Africa, the US, France, Germany and Australia. The organization has already provided a total of $75 million since its inception. Chief executive Kingsley Alkins predicts record contributions for 1997 due to the growing popularity of the Irish culture.

When Mary Robinson became president of Ireland six years ago, she placed a constantly burning light in a central window of her official residence overlooking Dublin's Phoenix Park. That light [...]

The words came from both sides of Ireland's politically and religiously divided society: 'These horrible scenes represent an attack on the very foundation of our human dignity. We are sad, [...]

Until September 11, 2001, it appeared that most Irish people had become immune to the horrors of terrorism. Centuries of conflict, nationalists versus loyalists, Roman Catholics versus Protestants, Bloody Sundays, [...]

National Forum on Europe to be Established 'I want to make it absolutely clear that, in my view, the 'no' vote should not be interpreted as a vote against enlargement. [...]

Lochlann Quinn, now sixty, hardly fits the profile of a dashing young Irish entrepreneur setting the dot.com world aflame. But if you're one of Ireland's best-known industrialists-bankers, with a lengthy [...]

Twenty-five years ago there was only one cheese variety in Ireland, now there's more than one for every week of the year (still well behind the French, who boast they [...]

For the Irish literati, May is the coolest month A casual trawl through any Dublin bookstore will happily illustrate, if such were needed, the impressive scope of Irish writing and [...]

The late British prime minister Harold Wilson once acidly remarked that 'a week is a long time in politics.' Peter Mandelson has good reason to reflect, even more bitterly, that [...]

Ireland's Industrial Development Authority (IDA), set up forty-two years ago to spearhead the Republic's economic development, proudly promotes the country as 'the competitive location in Europe.' With good reason. Since [...]

Adapting a New York slogan for a rather gray city, rent by decades of violence and sectarian bigotry, always seemed inappropriate for Ireland's northern capital, but 'Belfast--so good they named [...]

When I was a boy--and that wasn't yesterday--drive time was something the wealthier mortals spent on the golf course, and automobiles were the heady indulgence of the moneyed classes, the [...]

The Isles, Professor Norman Davies' provocatively argued history of the British archipelago, splendidly debunks the 'nationalist school' of English historians who have elevated the triumphal rise of British nationalism over [...]

'Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale!' wrote Herman Melville in his seminal Moby Dick. 'Woe to him [...]

European leaders forecast the future For a chapter entitled 'Personal Visions' in Europe in the New Century (published this month by Lynne Rienner; 250 pages; $17), our journalists interviewed European [...]

It started life almost 250 years ago, the realization of a dream of Dublin's merchant princes, located in the city's commercial hub. In 1762, the Wide Streets Commission had created [...]

Given the centuries of wrangling over British rule on the island of Ireland and--even earlier this year--disputes over the renaming of the Northern Ireland police force, it is surprising that [...]

Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful. That, in summary, was also the verdict of most of the critics on the opening night of Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for [...]

The country likes to boast in the ancient Irish language of its c[acute{e}]ad m[acute{i}]le f[acute{a}]ilte (hundred thousand welcomes) for the hundreds of thousands of tourists who invade the island each [...]

Most of the rest of the world was ringing-in the new millennium with champagne parties. But in France, birthplace of the 'sparkling tonic,' millions of people were still trying to [...]

A part from a radio critic's column in the (now-defunct) Hibernia magazine, Colm Toibin had no previous journalistic experience when he began writing regularly for the current affairs magazines In [...]

'Unfortunately, though there was real progress on the part of the IRA, there was not enough to justify withholding suspension.... I very much regret this course of action, but it [...]

For centuries, the island looked to the past and rarely to the future. Take one of the main points from this outline of its physical features. Ireland was separated from [...]