Useful Business Links

Business Organisations

Marketing Institute of Ireland

www.mii.ie

Chambers of Commerce of Ireland

www.chambers.ie

Cork Chamber of Commercewww.corkchamber.ie
Crafts Council of Irelandwww.dccoi.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/environment
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.chg.gov.ie
Department of Jobs, Enterprise & Innovationwww.enterprise.gov.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

Leader

West Cork Development Partnershipwww.wcdp.ie
South East Cork Area Developmentwww.secad.ie

Local Authority

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

Local Enterprise Offices

Local Enterprise Offices of Irelandwww.localenterprise.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
FÁSwww.fas.ie
Bord Biawww.bordbia.ie
Forfáswww.forfas.ie
IDA Irelandwww.idaireland.ie
Arts Councilwww.artscouncil.ie

Statistics

Central Statistics Officewww.cso.ie

Women in Business

Network Corkwww.networkcork.com