A plan to enhance a major Tipperary town has been described as “quadruplication of resources” by a local representative.

A Business Improvement District aims to improve a town or city centre through a community of local businesses. It works on aspects of tourism, commerce and networking with other towns.

Traders’ organisation DublinTown, which runs the city’s Business Improvement District (BID) scheme, has been given a mandate to continue for another five years, after it won a plebiscite of ...

Dún Laoghaire Business Association chairman Don McManus said he hoped the 805 businesses in the area would vote. He said about 22 businesses were vacant on the main street alone and needed to be ...