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Location of Ireland. This is a list of notable companies based in Ireland, or subsidiaries according to their sector.It includes companies from the entire island. The state of the Republic of Ireland covers five-sixths of the island, with Northern Ireland, part of the United Kingdom, covering the remainder in the north-east.
This list is based on the Forbes Global 2000, which ranks the world's 2,000 largest publicly traded companies.The Forbes list takes into account a multitude of factors, including the revenue, net profit, total assets and market value of each company; each factor is given a weighted rank in terms of importance when considering the overall ranking.
RSK Group was established in 1989 in Aberdeen by Alan Ryder, [2] and has grown both organically and through an accelerating programme of acquisitions. [3] Today based in Helsby in Cheshire, it aimed to become Europe's largest privately owned environmental and engineering business with a £1 billion turnover and employing 10,000 people worldwide by 2025. [3]
Carillion was created in July 1999, following a demerger from Tarmac, which had been founded in 1903.Tarmac focused on its core heavy building materials business, while Carillion included the former Tarmac Construction contracting business and the Tarmac Professional Services group of businesses. [7]
When ranked by score, Ireland ranked 11th among the 180 countries in the Index, where the country ranked first is perceived to have the most honest public sector. [1] For comparison with worldwide scores, the best score was 90 (ranked 1), the average score was 43, and the worst score was 11 (ranked 180). [2]
The MacGillycuddy's Reeks range contains Ireland's highest mountain, Carrauntoohil 1,038.6 m (3,407 ft), and the Reeks is the highest range of peaks in Ireland. [ 29 ] [ 9 ] However, many of its peaks do not meet all classification criteria for a "mountain" (e.g. particularly the 100–150 m (330–490 ft) in elevation change from neighbouring ...
The significance of Fishguard was that the GWR intended, with the collaboration of new railways in Ireland, to capture the contract for the official mail traffic between London and Dublin. [ note 1 ] Hitherto this had been carried from Holyhead to Kingstown (now known as Dún Laoghaire ), but the road transit to Holyhead was long and difficult.
8th or 9th Century Cross at Blackrock said to mark the boundary of Dublin city. The Rock Road, which forms the south-western boundary of the park, is said to form part of one of the oldest roads in the country, having been part of the ancient Slíghe Chualann constructed by the High King of Ireland several centuries before Saint Patrick, and which connected Tara with what is now southern ...