U2 manager Paul McGuinness has slammed Google for not cracking down on illegal music downloads, the Irish Daily Star reports.

You won’t hear Google complain about the Irish weather. Ireland’s wet damp climate is a key reason Google have settled their major headquarters outside the U.S. there.

Google Ireland has revealed what terms are most frequently searched in the Republic. The new data gives a strange and wonderful insight into what’s on the Irish people’s minds from art, to love, Katie Taylor and Michael Fassbender.

The online computer file sharing firm, Dropbox, has followed many other international tech companies, such as Google and Twitter, in establishing a headquarters in Dublin city.

A Dublin lecturer has discovered an unknown prehistoric site at the Hill of Tara – without even leaving his desk!

By their search strings shall ye know them. According to the New York Times Campaign Stops blog, Google search queries for Paul Ryan aren’t generally looking for high minded political principals.

Internet giant Google paid a mere €8 million ($10 million) in Irish taxes, despite generating a whopping €12.5billion ($15.6 billion) in revenue last year.

Hundreds of Muslim protesters marched from O’Connell Street in Dublin to the European Headquarters of Google in the dockyards district of the city.

A Google virtual tour can show take you a 360-degree tour of the interiors of local pubs, restaurants, and hotels in Cork city but can it capture the magic that fills them each night?

On Thursday, Google launched its new Endangered Languages Project which aims to preserve and revive some 3,000 languages that are dying out around the world, including Irish Gaelic.

Google has compiled its first ever World Wonders List which features 132 spots around the world that can be viewed in Google’s Street View. Two unlikely Irish locales - St Brendan’s Cathedral in Clonfert, Co Galway and Carlisle Memorial Methodist Church in Belfast - are put in the company of some of the world’s most renowned locales.

In 2011, 40 percent of the offices bought or leased in Dublin were acquired by US companies. According to Bloomberg, this trend will increase in 2012 and 2013.

In a surprising move, Google is considering opening its first stand-alone retail store at its European headquarters in Dublin, according to a report in the San Franciso Chronicle.