1. Ryanair

Every year Ryanair carries over 113 million passengers connecting 200 destinations in 33 countries on a fleet of 350 Boeing 737 aircraft based at 84 different European airports. With a further 350 Boeing 737s on order, Ryanair plans to lower fares and grow traffic to ov...

2. CMC

CMC distributes and markets coal products which is mined at Cerrejón, Colombia. It has an office in Dublin where it employs 31 people. Europe is the largest single market for CMC and it also sells to central and south america, the US and Asia. It is owned in equal par...

3. Applegreen

Motorway service station operator Petrogas is the company behind the Applegreen service stations. Applegreen is part of a consortium that holds a public-private partnership (PPP) contract with the National Roads Authority (NRA) to build and operate six motorway service ...

4. Irish Rail

A subsidiary of Córas Iompair Éireann, Iarnród Éireann provides passenger and freight rail services in Ireland as well as operating Rosslare Europort. Intercity rail passenger services operate between Dublin and Belfast, Sligo, Ballina, Westport, Galway, Limerick, Enni...

5. DAA

Daa is an airport management company. Headquartered at Dublin Airport, Daa's principal activities include airport management and development, domestic and international airport retail management and airport investment. The company's domestic operations include the ru...

6. Ballyvesey Holdings

Ballyvesey Holdings is one of the biggest articulated trailer and trucking firms in Europe, and owns several transport companies including Montgomery Transport, East-West Transport, Dukes Transport and JE Coulter. The group’s main activities are described as transport...

7. CarTrawler

CarTrawler connects business and leisure customers and online travel retailers with road and rail transport solutions. Over 80 international airlines and 2,000 travel retailers around the world trust CarTrawler to provide their customers with real-time access to over 1,...

8. Charles Hurst Group

Charles Hurst is a new and used car dealers group that was founded in 1911 and has become Northern Ireland’s leading motor group with over 700 employees. The company represents some of the world’s leading new and used car sales and motorcycle manufacturers, including ...

9. Maxol

McMullan Bros is the family-owned company behind the fuel wholesaler and retailer Maxol. Maxol has a network of 218 service stations and 22 authorised oil distributors. It employs an estimated 1,200 people.

10. Bombardier Aerospace

Bombardier Aerospace in Belfast specialises in major aircraft structures including fuselages, wings, engine nacelles and flight control surfaces in metal and advanced composites. The Canadian aerospace group employ about 5,000 people in Northern Ireland, and also produ...

11. Agnew Group

Isaac Agnew is a contract-hire and leasing company which covers the trading activities of several motor-vehicle businesses in Northern Ireland and was established over 40 years ago. The company was acquired by the UK’s Sytner Group in 2012 and transferred under managi...

12. Sandleford

Sandleford Limited supplies bicycle components to the bicycle industry, both in the bicycle manufacturing market and the after sales market.

13. Asl Aviation

The ASL Aviation Group, based in Ireland, is a well-established global aviation group providing an array of aviation services. The group of aviation companies includes Irish airline Air Contractors, French-based airline Europe Airpost, South African-based associated...

14. Bus Eireann

Bus Eireann operates bus services throughout Ireland. A level of State funding ensures the continued operation of many routes, which are not profitable on a commercial basis. The following are some of the services the company provides: Expressway Inter- urban...

15. P & O

P&O Ferrymasters runs ships between the UK, Ireland and the Continent and transport across Europe in its Ferrymasters logistics division. It is one of the leading European providers of tailor-made transportation and logistics services. Founded in 1953, the company ha...

16. Stafford Group

The privately-owned Stafford Group is involved in sports retail, oil/solid fuel importation and distribution, shipping, storage and property development. The Stafford Group's energy division consists of Campus Oil and Stafford Fuels. The company also owns the Lifestlye ...

17. Irish Continental

ICG is a shipping and transport group principally engaged in the transport of passengers and cars, freight and container freight on routes between Ireland, the United Kingdom and Continental Europe. The company also offers ferry travel and holiday packages primarily...

18. Ford Ireland

The company imports and distributes Ford vehicles around the country. Based in Cork, the company was founded in 1917 by Henry Ford and was the first location outside the US, selected because his grandfather emigrated from the county. It is the only Ford company left...

19. Valeo Vision

Valeo Vision Systems is an independent industrial group focused on the design, production and sale of components, integrated systems and modules for the automotive industry, mainly for CO2 emissions reduction and intuitive driving. Valeo began as Connaught Electronics...

20. Cahill May Roberts

Cahill May Roberts is a pharmaceutical distribution and wholesaling company. The company is a subsidiary of Celesio which is the largest European service provider for pharmaceuticals. Cahill May Roberts has two trading divisions, Movianto which provides 80 pharmaceutica...