European shares inch up as Federal Reserve sets tone on interest rate expectationsUS stocks subdued in choppy afternoon tradingFri Dec 15 2023 - 17:58
Bank of Ireland UK reprimanded for credit profile mistakes affecting 3,000 customersUK Information Commissioner’s Office said errors had ‘potentially caused misery for thousands of people’Fri Dec 15 2023 - 13:04
House prices across State rise by 2.3% but Dublin down againCentral Statistics Office index records 0.6% decrease in residential property prices in Dublin, while prices outside Dublin are up by 4.5% in the year to OctoberWed Dec 13 2023 - 11:13
Laura Slattery: The Crown is a perfect show for this age of ‘second screen’ televisionStreamers are adjusting to a universe in which the smartphone is the ‘first screen’ and the TV has become ‘ambient’ visual muzakTue Dec 12 2023 - 06:00
Miami vice, 2025-style, as Grand Theft Auto VI hype begins ahead of schedulePlanet Business: Australia ends next-day letter delivery, Tesla whistleblower talks ‘phantom braking’ and the European Central Bank eyes rivers and birds for banknote redesignSat Dec 09 2023 - 07:30
Planning appeal payments could have ‘serious’ tax consequences, Revenue warnsWhistleblowers invited to come forward to share information on payments made to influence the planning processFri Dec 08 2023 - 21:05
Number of people on live register drops again in NovemberFall of 1,400 on the seasonally adjusted register last month comes despite rise in unemployment rateFri Dec 08 2023 - 12:49
A ‘Booker bounce’, more BookTok joy, and a schoolbooks crisis for Irish booksellers in hectic yearAfter a royal start to 2023, retailers are now poised for the Christmas gift-buying rush. If only everything that happened in between had gone so wellFri Dec 08 2023 - 06:05
European share values pause after recent spell of strong gainsBank of Ireland and AIB dragged lower amid weak session for European banking stocksThu Dec 07 2023 - 19:12
Voice call minutes in Irish telecoms market decline 25% in a yearThere are now almost 620,000 fibre-to-the-premises broadband subscriber lines, says telecoms watchdog ComRegThu Dec 07 2023 - 18:38
Irish media companies perform poorly on the gender pay gap – will this year show any progress?Sequels to last December’s statutory pay gap reports are due to be published between now and the new yearTue Dec 05 2023 - 06:05
Sunday Times appoints Kieran McDaid as Ireland editorEditor of the Irish Sun succeeds Nóirín Hegarty at the helm of the broadsheetMon Dec 04 2023 - 16:31
Coals from Newcastle: how kayaking climate protesters blockaded the Australian portPlanet Business: Virgin Atlantic’s sustainable aviation fuel flight, Charlie Munger’s one-liners and the new prime minister of New ZealandSat Dec 02 2023 - 06:15
Irish manufacturing stabilises in November but exports remain subduedAIB managing purchasing managers’ index finds ‘very marginal increases’ in output last monthFri Dec 01 2023 - 05:15
Scarp business rescue process saves 561 jobs in two yearsAzets Ireland says regime is ‘needed more than ever’ by small and micro businesses exposed to higher inflation and interest ratesThu Nov 30 2023 - 05:45
European shares rise amid hopes ECB will cut interest rates in 2024FTSE 100 slips for third straight day after hawkish comments from Bank of England governor Andrew BaileyWed Nov 29 2023 - 18:30
Bord Gáis Energy Theatre swings into profit for 2022 as post-pandemic revenue quadruplesThe Lion King, Les Misérables, Beauty and the Beast and My Fair Lady among the musical productions attracting ticket-buyers last yearTue Nov 28 2023 - 19:00
State needs at least 50,000 more nursing home beds by 2051, says Sherry FitzGeraldSherry FitzGerald’s commercial research division says more stock required to meet future demandTue Nov 28 2023 - 11:23
‘Fever dream’ Late Late Toy Show sees leggings-clad Patrick Kielty sustain ratings magic for RTÉLaura Slattery: relief all round at Montrose as Toy Show remains an audience phenomenon in post-Tubridy eraTue Nov 28 2023 - 06:15
Patrick Kielty’s first Late Late Toy Show watched by 1.7m, taking top TV ratings spot for 2023Presenter’s debut eclipsed audience for Ireland’s Rugby World Cup quarter-finalMon Nov 27 2023 - 19:24
Ireland ranks sixth in ‘infrastructure for good’ reportState fares comparatively well on sustainability, but underperforms on social and community impact, according to new barometerMon Nov 27 2023 - 06:00
Former Department of Finance secretary general joins PR company MKCDerek Moran held top civil servant job in the department from 2014 until 2021 and helped plan economic response to CovidMon Nov 27 2023 - 05:55
Planet Business: Hunt and Sunak prepare for electoral defeat with weak-tea budgetPlanet Business: Kyle and Jackie O, departing top executives, and boardroom shenanigans at OpenAISat Nov 25 2023 - 06:30
Mediahuis Ireland records €13.4m net profit for 2022Irish subsidiary of European news publisher swings into profit, but turnover falls 28%Fri Nov 24 2023 - 12:31
First-time buyer mortgage approvals reach new highsRecord 30,508 approvals in year to end of October comes amid overall slowdown in mortgage activityFri Nov 24 2023 - 05:15
Housing commencement notices up 42.5% in OctoberConstruction began on 26,547 homes in the first 10 months of the yearThu Nov 23 2023 - 16:32
Financefair launches €150m fund for social and affordable housing developmentWorking capital aimed at ‘unserved middle’ will enable early funding drawdown, says Irish finance providerThu Nov 23 2023 - 06:00
European shares rise to two-month highWall Street also advances as investors bet Federal Reserve has reached end of interest rate hikes cycleWed Nov 22 2023 - 20:27
Christmas market season proves it really is a marshmallow world in the winterPlanet Business: David Cameron’s return, the saga of Coyote vs Acme and a brief history of The Body ShopSat Nov 18 2023 - 06:15
No issue with Ryan Tubridy’s London radio show airing on local Irish stations, says ‘satisfied’ regulatorCoimisiún na Meán says move by Dublin’s Q102 to simulcast presenter’s Virgin Radio UK show will not undermine media pluralityFri Nov 17 2023 - 18:38
Fashion, but no armour plating, as Kirsty Wark hails value of female allyshipScottish journalist, who will step down from BBC Newsnight after the next UK election, entertains audience of women at The Gloss gala eventFri Nov 17 2023 - 06:00
Tubridy has landed a new job in the UK but why has Virgin Radio given him one?Former RTÉ presenter’s scandal-rocked rollercoaster year leaves him ‘desperately excited’ to be at Rupert Murdoch owned stationThu Nov 16 2023 - 18:37
RTÉ to begin consultations with union representatives on proposed cost-cutting measuresKevin Bakhurst says planned 50% increase in spending on independent commissioning ‘won’t happen overnight’Thu Nov 16 2023 - 01:00
Kevin Bakhurst interview: ‘The RTÉ Player needs to be top of the class’Interview: Director general on plans for its Dublin and Cork bases, whether Fair City should be outsourced and his relationship with GovernmentWed Nov 15 2023 - 06:39
RTÉ stars to be hit by €250,000 salary capJoe Duffy, Claire Byrne and Miriam O’Callaghan’s earnings to drop as Kevin Bakhurst outlines plan to shed 400 people from workforceWed Nov 15 2023 - 05:00
It would make no sense to sell RTÉ's Donnybrook campus, says BakhurstDirector general tells staff that State broadcaster is looking to buy new studios in CorkTue Nov 14 2023 - 21:45
RTÉ crisis: no staff on more than €250,000 under new plan, with some presenters facing cutsJoe Duffy, Claire Byrne and Miriam O’Callaghan will lose out as part of cost-cutting in Bakhurst’s turnaround planTue Nov 14 2023 - 19:29
RTÉ plan ‘not about ripping the heart out’ of broadcaster, staff told, but Montrose mood is bleakLaura Slattery: Director general’s tricky task was to share details of a leaked plan headlined by a ‘big number’ of job lossesTue Nov 14 2023 - 19:13
Marketing group Core records 33% rise in profitDublin-based company said 2023 had been ‘extremely strong’ to date despite tighter marketing budgetsTue Nov 14 2023 - 12:04
Slapps, lawfare and Buying Silence: How the wealthy and powerful evade scrutinyLaura Slattery: Aggressive legal tactics recounted in new book by libel lawyer David Hooper highlights urgent need for anti-Slapp measuresTue Nov 14 2023 - 06:00
WeWork: hyped start-up to investor darling to bankruptcy in just 13 yearsPlanet Business: António Costa resigns as Portuguese prime minister, Lidiane Jones swaps Slack for Bumble and this year’s hotly-tipped Christmas toysSat Nov 11 2023 - 07:00
RTÉ appoints Gavin Deans in ‘critical’ role of commercial directorGavin Deans, who joins from Media Central, will be charged with ‘optimising’ advertising revenues amid licence fee crisisFri Nov 10 2023 - 16:00
Pat Kenny sees biggest listener gain at 9am after summer shakeup on Irish radioRTÉ Radio 1 and Today FM record higher audiences in crucial time slot, but Kenny’s Newstalk show emerges as main beneficiary of upheavalThu Nov 09 2023 - 12:00
European shares edge higher after strong company earningsRyanair continues to climb, while Marks & Spencer is the star performer on the FTSE 100Wed Nov 08 2023 - 18:23
Coimisiún na Méan approves additional funding of €2.4m for radio stationsCommunity-themed programmes among those to receive money under the regulator’s Sound & Vision schemeTue Nov 07 2023 - 12:57
Spotify’s zero-royalty plan tells musicians their work is worthlessLaura Slattery: Proposed minimum annual threshold of 1,000 plays before a track generates any payment is beyond dismalTue Nov 07 2023 - 06:00
Dublin ad agency Micromedia applies to operate five digital billboards using solar power‘Sustainable’ proposal to council also includes quota for the promotion of cultural activitiesTue Nov 07 2023 - 06:00
Beatles podcast mania: Irish-made Nothing is Real nears three million downloadsAcclaimed ‘gem’ presented by two ‘Beatles Brain of Ireland’ champions has become the podcast fans of the band have got to get into their livesSat Nov 04 2023 - 06:15
Actors’ strike flirts with an ending, but will the climax be worthy of Hollywood?Planet Business: Helen MacNamara’s Covid testimony, We Work’s imminent bankruptcy and invitees to Bletchley ParkSat Nov 04 2023 - 06:15
Mounting alarm in Government over corporation tax revenue as receipts continue to plummetExchequer returns indicate valuable revenue stream ebbing for the third month in successionSat Nov 04 2023 - 04:00
