Useful Business Links

Links of various bodies, organisations, agencies and networks.

Business Organisations

Marketing Institute of Ireland

www.mii.ie

Chambers of Commerce of Ireland

www.chambers.ie

Cork Chamber of Commercewww.corkchamber.ie
Cork Business Innovation Centrewww.corkbic.com
Irish Business & Employers Federation (IBEC)www.ibec.ie
Small Firms Associationwww.sfa.ie
Irish Small & Medium Enterprises Association (ISME)www.isme.ie

Education

Cork Institute of Technologywww.cit.ie
University College Corkwww.ucc.ie
Cork College of Commercewww.corkcollegeofcommerce.ie
St. John's Central Collegewww.stjohnscollege.ie
Student Enterprisewww.studententerprise.ie

Environmental

Sustainable Energy Irelandwww.seai.ie
Smile Resource Exchangewww.smileexchange.ie
Wastematcherswww.wastematchers.com
Macroom Environment Industrial Parkwww.macroom-e.com
Green Awardswww.greenawards.ie
Cork County Council - Environmentwww.corkcoco.ie
Department of the Environmentwww.environ.ie
Environmental Protection Agencywww.epa.ie

European Union

Europa-Gateway to the EUwww.europa.eu

Funding

Business Expansion Schemewww.revenue.ie
Seed & Venture Capital Schemewww.enterprise-ireland.com
Halo Business Angel Networkwww.hban.org
Microfinance Irelandwww.microfinanceireland.ie

Franchising

Irish Franchise Associationwww.irishfranchiseassociation.ie
Franchise Directwww.franchisedirect.ie
Franchise Pit-stopwww.franchise-pitstop.ie

Government Departments

Department of Justice, Equality & law Reformwww.justice.ie
Department of Social & Family Affairswww.welfare.ie
Irish Governmentwww.irlgov.ie
Development of Public Expenditure & Reformper.gov.ie
Department of Arts, Heritage & the Gaeltachtwww.ahg.gov.ie
Department of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovationwww.enterprise.gov.ie
BASIS - Business Access to State Information & Serviceswww.basis.ie
Companies Registration Officewww.cro.ie
Revenue Commissionerswww.revenue.ie
sTenders Procurementwww.etenders.gov.ie
Data Protection Commissionerwww.dataprotection.ie

Internet/IT

Ireland's Domain Registrywww.iedr.ie
Irish Internet Associationwww.iia.ie

Local Authority

Cork County Councilwww.corkcoco.ie
Cork City Councilwww.corkcity.ie

Local Enterprise Offices

Local Enterprise Offices of Irelandwww.localenterprise.ie

Legal

Companies Registration Officewww.cro.ie

Patenting

Irish Patents Officewww.patentsoffice.ie
European Patent Officewww.epo.org

Publications

Irish Business Forumswww.irishbusinessforums.com

Research & Development

Innovation Voucherwww.enterprise-ireland.com

State Agency

Teagascwww.teagasc.ie
Health Service Exceutivewww.hse.ie
Health & Safety Authoritywww.hsa.ie
Enterprise Irelandwww.enterprise-ireland.com
Food Safety Authority of Irelandwww.fsai.ie
FÁSwww.fas.ie
Bord Biawww.bordbia.ie
BIMwww.bim.ie
Forfáswww.forfas.ie
IDA Irelandwww.idaireland.ie
National Standards Authority of Irelandwww.nsai.ie
Arts Councilwww.artscouncil.ie
Crafts Council of Irelandwww.ccoi.ie

Statistics

Central Statistics Officewww.cso.ie

Women in Business

National Women's Enterprise Daywww.nwed.ie
Network Corkwww.networkcork.com