Silver Pail Dairy, the Fermoy-based ice-cream maker, is to manufacture 30 flavours of ice-cream for 140 Baskin-Robbins stores in Britain.
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Tony Ryan, the former GPA boss and founder of Ryanair, added to his stake in drug company Amarin with the purchase of 800,000 shares at $2.50 (€2.07) per share.
TUESDAY: IIB predicted that house prices would rise 8% in 2006. Figures from the environment department showed that almost 81,000 houses and apartments were built last year, up 5.2% on 2004, the 11th consecutive record year.
WEDNESDAY: Fund services company Citco is to hire a further 250 in the city, adding to its workforce of 600 in Cork and Dublin.
Northern Rock more than doubled its Irish customer base to 3% of the savings market in 2005.
THURSDAY: Airtricity, the renewable energy company, is to buy €300m of wind turbines from Mitsubishi Power Systems to service its US expansion.
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Employment minister, Micheal Martin, said the National Training Fund would get an extra €21m this year, bringing the total to be spent on training and education under the Fas initiative to €353.6m.
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FRIDAY: Bill Prasifka, formerly the commissioner for aviation regulation, is the new chairman of the Competition Authority.