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Ireland’s 100 leading graduate employers have been broken down by the sector or sectors in which they operate. They are listed alphabetically by sector. Just click on your chosen sector below to reveal the most respected employers.

Accountancy/professional service

  • BDO Simpson Xavier
    The fifth largest accountancy and business advisory firm in Ireland, with indigenous and multinational clients.
  • Deloitte
    Audit, tax, consulting and corporate finance services to public and private clients spanning multiple industries.
  • Ernst & Young
    A global firm, providing assurance, tax, transaction and advisory services to many of the leading organisations in the country.
  • Grant Thornton
    A global organisation that provides business, tax, assurance and specialist advisory services to public interest entities, privately held businesses and the financial services sectors.
  • IFAC Accountants
  • KPMG
    A leading provider of professional services in Ireland, working with clients in all sectors of Irish business and providing a range of audit, tax and advisory services.
  • PricewaterhouseCoopers
    Leading professional services firm, offering client services through assurance, tax, advisory and actuarial practices. Also covers Northern Ireland through its UK business.

Construction and property

  • Irish Cement
    Irish Cement has manufactured cement in Ireland for over sixty years.
  • Kingspan
    Manufactures and supplies construction goods with an emphasis on sustainable, environmentally friendly products and innovations.
  • Quinn Property
  • RPS Group
    Multidisciplinary engineering consultancy providing engineering, planning, design and environmental services for clients in the public and private sectors.
  • Sisk
    Founded in Ireland in 1859, Sisk is the largest general contracting company in the country.

Consulting

  • Accenture
    Accenture is the largest management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company in Ireland, employing over 1,600 people between Dublin and Belfast.
  • IBM
    One of Ireland’s leading providers of advanced information technology, products, services and business consulting.
  • McKinsey & Company
    A global firm which opened its Dublin office in 1994. It serves clients in areas ranging from public sector and healthcare to financial services and banking.

Engineering

  • Airtricity
    Renewable energy company supplying cheaper and greener electricity to homes and businesses in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. It has also constructed 17 wind farms.
  • Arup
    Multidisciplinary design engineering consultancy.
  • Bombardier Aerospace
  • Eirgrid
  • Electricity Supply Board
    An electricity company providing connection and metering services across Ireland.
  • GE
  • Irish Cement
    Irish Cement has manufactured cement in Ireland for over sixty years.
  • Jacobs Engineering
    Provides professional technical services to industrial, commercial, and government clients across multiple markets including engineering, construction, operations and maintenance.
  • Motorola
    A leading electronics and communications organisation that began by manufacturing car radios.
  • Project Management Group
    Provides technical and consulting, engineering and architectural design as well as construction management services.
  • Quinn Group
    Organisation producing construction industry supplies and glass, providing financial services, and operating hotels and pubs. Also owns hotels in UK and Europe.
  • Shannon Aerospace
    Performs heavy maintenance checks on airlines and aircraft, as well as a variety of specialist services such as engineering, training and material sales.
  • Shell
    Oil and gas industry, working on the Corrib gas fields off the coast of Co. Mayo.
  • Siemens
    A global organisation providing products, systems, services and solutions for the industry, energy and healthcare sectors.
  • Stryker Instruments
    A division of the Stryker Corporation, Stryker Instruments manufactures a wide range of innovative medical devices and equipment.

Financial services

  • Bank of Ireland
    Provides a complete range of highly focused financial services and products to both individual and corporate clients in the Irish, UK and niche markets internationally.
  • Bank of Scotland (Ireland) Ltd
    A subsidiary of the Bank of Scotland and part of Lloyds Banking Group. Used to specialise in business banking but has now spread into high street banking.
  • FBD Insurance
    FBD Insurance, a division of FBD Holdings plc, is one of Ireland’s largest insurers and specialises in car, home and business insurance.
  • Hibernian Aviva
    Ireland’s largest consolidated insurance company. Its main business is the provision of pensions, investments, fund management and insurance products to customers worldwide.
  • Irish Life & Permanent
    One of Ireland’s primary providers of personal financial services.
  • Quinn Financial Services
  • Ulster Bank/Royal Bank of Scotland Group
    Retail, corporate and business banking.
  • VHI
    Provides quality healthcare products and services in Ireland. Its membership exceeds 1.5 million.
  • Zurich Financial Services
    One of the largest insurers in Ireland, offering a range of products, from private motor and home insurance to engineering and commercial property insurance.

FMCG

  • Cadbury
    Cadbury originated nearly 200 years ago, and today holds either the number one or two positions in over 20 of the world’s 50 confectionery markets.
  • Coca Cola
    Coca-Cola HBC Ireland and Northern Ireland are part of the Coca-Cola Hellenic Bottling Company. The company employs approximately 1,200 staff directly and hundreds more indirectly contributing an estimated €120m to the economy.
  • Diageo
    The world’s leading premium drinks business with brands in the spirits, wine and beer categories including Guinness, Smirnoff and Baileys.

Investment and investment banking

  • Bank of America Securities
    After combining with Merrill Lynch, this is now the largest brokerage firm in the world.
  • Bank of Ireland Asset Management
  • Barclays Bank PLC
    Barclays has supported Irish business and subsidies for over 30 years, and is one of Ireland’s leading commercial banks.
  • Davy
  • Goldman Sachs
  • J.P.Morgan
  • Morgan Stanley

IT and telecoms

  • Accenture
    Accenture is the largest management consulting, technology services and outsourcing company in Ireland, employing over 1,600 people between Dublin and Belfast.
  • Accenture Technology Solutions
    Accenture Technology Solutions is a subsidiary of Accenture focusing on application development, solutions delivery and software maintenance.
  • Apple
    Design and manufacture of consumer electronics and related software products. Apple’s European Operations Headquarters is in Cork, and Ireland hosts several divisions including telesales.
  • Cisco
    Cisco is based in San Jose, California but it creates networking solutions for the internet all over the world while emphasising community involvement and social responsibility.
  • Ericsson
    Ericsson is the leader in mobile technologies and provides support for networks with over 1 billion subscribers and has a leading position in managed services.
  • Facebook
  • Google
    Google is one of the world’s largest and best known search engines. It opened in Dublin in 2003 and has grown rapidly to become one of the city’s most notable employers.
  • Intel
    Invented the microprocessors used in most PCs today and is one of the world’s most recognisable computer brands.
  • Microsoft
    Well known American computer technology corporation. Microsoft opened the company’s first Windows Live EMEA Data Centre in Dublin in July 2009 with an investment of $500 million.
  • Sony
  • Sun Microsystems
  • Vodafone

Law

  • A&L Goodbody
    Dublin-based law firm providing business legal services in Ireland. Has recently established an office in Belfast in order to make its services available in Northern Ireland as well.
  • Arthur Cox
    One of Ireland’s largest law firms. An ‘all Ireland’ law firm with full-service offices in Dublin and Belfast. The firm also has offices in London and New York.
  • Matheson Ormsby Prentice
    A leading Irish corporate law firm. Clients include some of the largest public, private and State-owned companies and institutions in Ireland.
  • McCann FitzGerald
    Large Irish corporate law firm with offices also in London and Brussels. Awarded IFLR’s Irish Law Firm of the Year (2009).

Public service

  • An Garda Síochána
    Modern policing with a wider remit than traditional crime fighting: An Garda Síochána works to make a positive difference and improve the quality of life for all citizens.
  • An Post
  • BBC
    BBC NI is one of the three national regions of the BBC – the largest public service broadcaster in the world.
  • Defence Forces
  • Department of Education
    The Department aims to provide high-quality education which will enable individuals to achieve their full potential; and contribute to Ireland’s social, cultural and economic development.
  • Department of Employment & Learning NI/Teaching
  • Department of Foreign Affairs
  • Department of the Environment
  • Enterprise Ireland
    A government agency which supports the growth and development of industry in Ireland and is trying to improve Ireland’s position in the world’s markets.
  • EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
    Licensing, enforcing, monitoring and assessment activities.
  • European Commission
  • FÁS Overseas Graduate Programme
    The FÁS Overseas Graduate Programme places newly qualified Irish graduates in full-time jobs with companies abroad.
  • Health Service Executive
    Provides a range of public health services.
  • Public Appointments Service
    Recruits for positions in the Civil Service and also lends its services to health boards, local authorities and other public bodies.
  • RTÉ
    Public service broadcaster for the Republic of Ireland.

Retail

  • Aldi
    A global retailer and one of the world’s largest privately owned companies. Opened its first store in Ireland in 1999 and now has 67 stores across the country.
  • Boots
    An international pharmacy-led health and beauty group. Boots opened its doors to the Irish public in 1996.
  • Debenhams
  • Marks & Spencer
    Core business is quality foods, ladieswear, menswear, homewares, childrenswear, Per Una.
  • Musgrave Group
    A company engaged in the wholesale and retail distribution of food and general merchandise in Ireland, UK and Spain. Its headquarters are in Cork.
  • Paddy Power
    Ireland’s biggest bookmaker and largest provider of online gaming services, founded in 1988 by the merger of three existing Irish high-street bookmakers.
  • Penneys (Primark)
  • Tesco Ireland
    The largest food retailer in Ireland was formed in 1997 and now has 82 stores nationwide. The company opened its first Irish petrol filling station in Killarny in 2003.
  • USIT
    USIT specialises in student, youth and independent travel, offering products specifically for student and youth travellers.

Science

  • Abbott Ireland
    Manufactures and markets a broad range of health care products, including medical devices, pharmaceutical, diagnostic and nutritional products.
  • Baxter Healthcare
  • Bayer
  • Boston Scientific
    Global company which develops, makes and markets medical devices for less invasive forms of interventional treatment. Has several sites in Ireland specialising in different areas.
  • Eli Lilly
    A global, research-based pharmaceutical company with three operations in Ireland: marketing and sales, treasury and inter-company processes and manufacturing.
  • GlaxoSmithKline
    The world’s second largest pharmaceutical company, also dealing in biological and healthcare. Products include vaccines, respiratory products and nutritional drinks.
  • Kerry Biosciences
  • Medtronic
    Provides healthcare products and medical technology for chronic conditions such as heart failure, vascular disease and diabetes.
  • Pfizer
    Pfizer, a pharmaceutical company producing best selling drugs such as Lipitor, Accupril and Viagra, has been operating in Ireland for over 30 years.
  • Roche Ireland
    A subsidiary of the Roche Group, the international healthcare company, Roche Ireland is a manufacturing centre for the production of active pharmaceutical ingredients.
  • Stryker Instruments
    A division of the Stryker Corporation, Stryker Instruments manufactures a wide range of innovative medical devices and equipment.
  • Wyeth Biotech
  • Wyeth Medica
    Wyeth Biotech is dedicated to the development and manufacture of biopharmaceuticals, pharmaceuticals and vaccines.

Transport and logistics

  • Aer Lingus
    Founded by the Irish Government in April 1936 to provide air services to/from Ireland. In 2006, Aer Lingus was floated on the Irish and London Stock Exchanges.