International Business News - Ireland http://www.ibtimes.com All articles are copyrighted by IBTimes.com 400 100 http://www.ibtimes.com/ http://www.ibtimes.com/images/top_logo_ibt2_3.gif Irish unemployment jumped last month to a nine-year high of 5.7 percent, the Central Statistics Office reported Friday, in the latest sign that Ireland is heading toward a recession. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080704/irish-unemployment-hits-5-7-percent.htm Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:10:56 EDT Ireland's economy shrank 1.5 percent in the first quarter of 2008, offering the first official evidence that this long-booming country is heading for its first recession in 25 years. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080630/irelands-economy-shrinks-1-5-percent.htm Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:00:23 EDT Waterford Wedgwood PLC, the cash-strapped maker of luxury crystal and china, confirmed Monday it is considering the sale of its majority holding in porcelain tableware maker Rosenthal AG of Germany. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080623/waterford-wedgewood-could-sell-rosenthal.htm Mon, 23 Jun 2008 07:53:17 EDT Ireland's prime minister said Friday he regretted that Irish voters rejected the European Union's reform treaty, a result that has plunged the EU into political crisis. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080620/irish-premier-sorry-for-treaty-no-vote.htm Fri, 20 Jun 2008 14:03:08 EDT Three days after Irish voters rejected a treaty seeking major reforms to the European Union, the bloc's 27 members on Monday began the search for an exit from yet another crisis of confidence over European integration. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080616/eu-debates-way-forward-after-irish-no.htm Mon, 16 Jun 2008 11:01:34 EDT Europe was thrown into political chaos Friday by Ireland's rejection of the Lisbon Treaty, a negotiated blueprint for consolidating the European Union's power and streamlining its increasingly unwieldy bureaucracy. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080613/ireland-irish-voters.htm Fri, 13 Jun 2008 23:10:39 EDT Ireland's voters have rejected the European Union reform treaty, a blueprint for modernizing the 27-nation bloc that cannot become law without Irish approval, electoral officials said Friday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080613/ireland-counts-ballots-on-eu-treaty.htm Fri, 13 Jun 2008 13:09:08 EDT Irish citizens voted Thursday on whether to accept or reject the European Union's new reform treaty, and the result could damage or destroy the painstakingly negotiated pact. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/70661-ireland-eu-referendum.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080612/ireland-holds-vote-on-whether-to-accept-eu-treaty.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080612/ireland-holds-vote-on-whether-to-accept-eu-treaty.htm Thu, 12 Jun 2008 20:57:28 EDT Annual inflation in Ireland jumped last month to 4.7 percent as the Irish continued to cope with the fastest price rises in western Europe, the government Central Statistics Office reported Thursday. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080612/ireland-inflation-jumps-to-4-7-percent.htm Thu, 12 Jun 2008 12:50:40 EDT Aer Lingus PLC warned its shareholders Friday that record-high fuel prices could drive the Irish airline into the red this year and would require at least one U.S. route to be suspended. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080606/irish-airline-aer-lingus-gives-warning.htm Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:41:24 EDT Budget airline leader Ryanair Holdings PLC reported a 10.3 percent drop in net profits Tuesday, citing the record cost of fuel and its attempt to take over Irish rival Aer Lingus. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080603/ryanair-profits-fall-on-fuel-costs-takeover-bid.htm Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:27:51 EDT Budget airline Ryanair said Monday it intends to file legal proceedings in France against a trade union, seeking damages for losses suffered during strikes in May. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080602/ryanair-plans-legal-action-against-union.htm Mon, 02 Jun 2008 12:19:20 EDT Chief negotiators of a landmark treaty banning cluster bombs predicted Friday that the United States will never again use the weapons, a critical component of American air and artillery power. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/58737-ireland-cluster-bomb.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080530/111-nations-adopt-cluster-bomb-treaty.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080530/111-nations-adopt-cluster-bomb-treaty.htm Fri, 30 May 2008 18:00:25 EDT Debt-ridden Waterford Crystal faced a renewed cash crisis Tuesday after the Irish government said it would not act as guarantor for any new bank loans. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080520/irish-govt-wont-back-loans-for-waterford-crystal.htm Tue, 20 May 2008 14:35:50 EDT Guinness beer owner Diageo PLC rattled an Irish icon Friday, announcing plans to lay off more than half of its brewery workers, close two breweries and shift most production to a new, high-tech plant in the Dublin suburbs by 2013. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/45076-ireland-guinness.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080509/diageo-brews-1-25b-irish-overhaul.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080509/diageo-brews-1-25b-irish-overhaul.htm Fri, 09 May 2008 13:34:26 EDT Guinness beer owner Diageo PLC rattled an Irish icon Friday, announcing plans to lay off more than half of its brewery workers, close two breweries and shift most beer production to a new, high-tech plant in the Dublin suburbs by 2013. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/45029-ireland-guinness.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080509/diageo-brews-irish-guinness-overhaul.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080509/diageo-brews-irish-guinness-overhaul.htm Fri, 09 May 2008 09:33:59 EDT Diageo PLC said Friday it will close two Irish breweries, reduce operations at a third facility and cut its staff in the country by more than half as it consolidates Guinness brewing operations in Ireland. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080509/guinness-brewing-ops-being-consoldiated-in-irleand.htm Fri, 09 May 2008 08:29:17 EDT Finance Minister Brian Cowen was elected Ireland's new prime minister Wednesday, and he pledged to keep the country on its pro-European course through choppy economic waters. http://www.ibtimes.com/data/articleimgs/44617-ireland-new-premier.jpg http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080507/cowen-elected-new-irish-premier.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080507/cowen-elected-new-irish-premier.htm Wed, 07 May 2008 14:48:04 EDT Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern is hailing Irish-American ties in a speech to the U.S. Congress just days before he steps down, telling Congress, "To be Irish is to be at home in America." http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080430/irish-leader-hails-ties-with-us.htm Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:37:49 EDT When retiring Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern visited the White House on St. Patrick's Day, he was able to declare that peace had been established in Northern Ireland after decades of violence. http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/20080430/congress-convenes-to-hear-retiring-irish-prime-minister.htm Wed, 30 Apr 2008 03:14:15 EDT