Digital Economy News 2023 SC

 Ireland as a Digital Economy Good morning fellow bloggers, Its Sophie here and this week we will be starting into our digital economy blogs. For our first official blog we will look at Ireland as a Digital Economy. There are a number of reasons of why Ireland is becoming more popular for companies looking to expand their businesses: Low Corporate Tax Rate The corporation tax rate is at an average of 12.5% for majority of incorporated firms throughout Ireland as opposed to it being 20% in a lot of EU countries. This attracts companies to reside in Ireland in order to achieve their businesses with levying low corporate tax. Educated workforce Ireland has one of the most highest educated workforce in the EU with a high rate of 59% of Irish workers have been educated with eith er level 5 or equivalent, bachelors, masters and doctoral degrees making workers the most skilled and educated in the EU (The Irish Examiner, 2023). A dvanced Technology I reland has a high achievement of inves...

Hello everyone, I will start off this exciting blog by introducing myself as we all know that we want to know more about who we are reading about. Let's get into it...hope you all enjoy this!  My name is Sophie Connolly, I am a fourth year student in the Bachelor of Business course and I have specialized in Marketing at South-East Technological University Waterford in my final year of my degree.  I am from New Ross County Wexford and I commute up and down to college daily.   In the second semester of third year, I completed my flexible semester of Teaching Placement in a primary school called ‘Catherine McAuley junior school’ three days a week for 12 weeks from February to May and it was a challenging time for me as I had to teach the class for fifteen minutes a day but by the end of the twelve weeks, I really enjoyed it and I was sad to leave on the last day. It was an amazing experience to do and it has given me a great insight into my future career. Information systems...