Business

A wide range of business and farming organisations have been invited to meet the Transport Minister to discuss how to combat the rural isolation caused by drink driving laws.

The West Fork magazine Business Breakfast hosted by The Southern Star, as part of the Taste of West Cork food festival, will feature architect and environmentalist Duncan Stewart as keynote speaker for this year's event.

Two local seafood enterprises have benefited from the latest round of grants announced by Minister for Agriculture Food and the Marine, Michael Creed TD.

An initiative focused on bringing new marine business to the coast of Cork has completed major research to promote its success.

It's a case of three for the price of one when it comes to Skeagh House in Skibbereen.

It was celebrations all round in Macroom recently as local company Cygnum celebrated 20 years in business. As one of the country’s leading, award-winning timber frame processing companies, the company initially employed just 30 staff back in 1997, but this has now increased to 130 with many of those from Macroom and the surrounding areas. 

There was much shock and sadness in Coppeen this week when prominent businessman John Barrett died on Sunday in Cork University Hospital following an illness. 

Skibbereen food firm Scratch My Pork is celebrating three years in business. 

A Thai woman who swapped the tropics for West Cork is packing a punch with her newly launched food dressings.