Irish advertising market will expand 7% this year, forecasts CoreGrowth in television revenues set to be slower than in 2024, while print is expected to decline furtherThu Jan 30 2025 - 17:00
Mortgage drawdowns for first-time buyers hit highest level since 2007More than 50,000 mortgages with value of €15.3 billion approved last year Thu Jan 30 2025 - 06:00
European shares close at a record high as investors await rate decisionsDutch chip company ASML leads tech stocks higher, but luxury companies tumbleWed Jan 29 2025 - 18:25
Trump 2.0 underlines the feeling we are stuck ‘playing yesterday’s tape’Groundhog Day? Welcome to the groundhog decadeTue Jan 28 2025 - 06:05
St Patrick’s Day parade 2025 set to be taller ‘Every year I say the parade is going to be bigger and better. This year, I’m saying it’s going to be higher,’ says festival bossTue Jan 28 2025 - 06:00
Mr Cook goes to Washington and other tales from Trump’s inaugurationPlanet Business: Executive order recap, the man who designed Melania Trump’s hat and how the television ratings compared to previous ceremoniesSat Jan 25 2025 - 06:15
European stocks run out of steam as Wall Street struggles for directionDiageo gains 4.3% on report of potential spin-off or sale of GuinnessFri Jan 24 2025 - 18:19
Screen Ireland launches slate of more than 80 productionsDetails of upcoming Irish film, television and animation projects announced at event held ahead of underwhelming Oscar nominationsThu Jan 23 2025 - 18:13
Oscar nominations 2025: Emilia Pérez breaks record with 13 nominations as Kneecap loses outDisappointment as Kneecap misses out and no Irish actors are nominated for an awardThu Jan 23 2025 - 16:44
Screen industry boosts Irish economy by €1bn amid ‘drastic’ global changeEconomic analysis commissioned by Screen Ireland finds sector directly supports equivalent of 10,000 jobs amid annual fluctuations and skills gapsThu Jan 23 2025 - 06:00
Irish house prices climb at ‘still very high’ rate of 9.4%Residential property prices continue to rise as incoming Government promises to build more than 300,000 homes by the end of 2030Wed Jan 22 2025 - 11:54
Show must go on in ‘great but very troubled’ Hollywood. But how?After the wildfires, and amid calls for the ‘glitz’ of the Oscars to be cancelled, the LA entertainment industry is plotting its way forwardTue Jan 21 2025 - 06:05
LA fires lay bare the spectre of an uninsurable futurePlanet Business: Meta’s non-regrettable attrition, Starbucks’ new code of customer conduct and performers signed-up for Donald Trump’s inaugurationSat Jan 18 2025 - 06:15
Penneys will top up statutory maternity pay as part of new range of benefitsSupports for employees ‘across a range of parenting journeys’, including surrogacy, available for the first timeFri Jan 17 2025 - 16:59
Employment growth greatest among those aged 65 and overMonthly employee index tracks trends for payroll employeesFri Jan 17 2025 - 12:37
European stocks rise as luxury stocks and chipmakers make gainsDior, LVMH, Kering and Hermes among the luxury goods companies to advance after Cartier owner Richemont posted strong quarterly earningsThu Jan 16 2025 - 18:12
2024 Northern Ireland property investment market weakest since 2012£22.7m sale of Bloomfield Shopping Centre and Retail Park in Bangor was largest transaction of the yearWed Jan 15 2025 - 12:19
Laura Slattery: What can we expect from Mark Zuckerberg's entrance into the MMA-MAGA arena?Meta boss Mark Zuckerberg has entered the MMA-MAGA arena. A high-profile bout is the next logical stepTue Jan 14 2025 - 06:15
Childcare crisis driving employees out of workforce9 in 10 businesses said the childcare crisis limited their ability to recruit and retain staffMon Jan 13 2025 - 06:15
Airline capacity constraints likely to continue amid ongoing aircraft delivery shortfallsIndustry profitability was ahead of expectations in 2024, but fleet planning challenges will remain for years to come, PwC aviation report findsMon Jan 13 2025 - 06:00
Costs a concern for food and drink manufacturers despite positive sentimentThree-quarters of companies in the sector expect wage costs to rise this year, said Food Drink IrelandMon Jan 13 2025 - 05:00
Greenland is the ‘large real-estate deal’ Trump doesn’t want to let slip awayPlanet Business: Mark Zuckerberg’s watch, Michael Barr’s pre-emptive move and possible successors to Justin TrudeauSat Jan 11 2025 - 06:15
Toy Show and sport top list of most-watched TV of 2024. But where is the comedy and drama?Festive Late Late event was the only non-sport programme in the top 10, with I’m a Celebrity and the Eurovision Song Contest among the shows to improve their rankings last yearFri Jan 10 2025 - 11:38
Shorla Oncology co-founders: ‘We felt compelled to do something meaningful’One is an ‘adrenalin-seeker’, the other a ‘voice of reason’. Now, after years of ‘serious graft’, EY award-winning pharma entrepreneurs Sharon Cunningham and Orlaith Ryan are poised to expand their portfolio of cancer treatmentsFri Jan 10 2025 - 06:00
Andre Agassi: ‘Everything that happens on a tennis court is really a metaphor for life’Former world number one tennis champion, who won eight Grand Slam titles, serves up lessons in how to thrive under pressureThu Jan 09 2025 - 19:06
European shares edge higher after gains for energy stocksBut the FTSE 100 ended the session in negative territory after energy advances were offset by declines for banksTue Jan 07 2025 - 18:05
Sanewashing by the media helps absurdity and extremism flourishNews outlets may have a structural bias towards the rational over the mind-bendingly nonsensical. In 2025, that’s not idealTue Jan 07 2025 - 06:05
Government submits second payment request under EU’s post-pandemic recovery fundDecember 2024 request for €115.5 million in grants is contingent on a series of performance targetsFri Jan 03 2025 - 15:48
European stocks shake off slow start to rise in first trading session of the yearTesla among the fallers on Wall Street after it reports its first fall in annual deliveriesThu Jan 02 2025 - 18:05
Ireland Funds awards €500,000 in end-of-year grantsSome 20 organisations will receive €25,000 each to support their work with young peopleTue Dec 31 2024 - 06:00
No ‘Santa Claus rally’ on Wall Street on mostly moribund MondayEuropean stocks edge lower amid thin trading volumes in holiday-shortened weekMon Dec 30 2024 - 17:47
Lidl Ireland narrows gender pay gap to 5.2%Supermarket retailer closed its median pay gap to zero this year and says it is working to eliminate gap in average earningsMon Dec 30 2024 - 13:10
‘You can’t cook to save your lives’ and other quotes of the yearPlanet Business: Pivots, experiments and the beauty of everyday life all feature in this round-up of the things people said in 2024Sun Dec 29 2024 - 08:00
Wonderwallets: the cost of everything in 2024, from Oasis tickets to Leinster House bike shelterPlanet Business: The year in numbers, from Boris Johnson’s book advance to fines for dirty toilets at Dublin AirportSun Dec 29 2024 - 05:30
Romantasy, QuitTok and other words from a dystopia-coded yearPlanet Business: Once heard, some phrases that rose to prominence in 2024 couldn’t be unheardSat Dec 28 2024 - 05:45
From Aer Lingus pilots to Alias Tom: Who were the winners and losers in Irish business this year?In a year of closures and comebacks, Michael O’Leary had a ‘pain in the backside’, while Gail Slater was urged to ‘Make America Competitive Again’Fri Dec 27 2024 - 06:00
‘Santa pause’ as consumer sentiment holds steady in DecemberConsumers now less fearful about the prospects for their own finances in the year aheadMon Dec 23 2024 - 06:00
Local newspaper group Formpress Publishing increases pretax profits to nearly €1.7mTurnover at Malcolm Denmark-owned company up 15% to €11.7m, accounts showMon Dec 23 2024 - 06:00
Hauliers seek €60m a month in aid to cope with Holyhead port closureSeen and heard: Port damage to hit prices; City library tender; Johnny Ronan’s Bewley’s deal; Mercury Engineering jobs; Oatier eyes Dublin flotationSun Dec 22 2024 - 12:31
It’s fishmas time again as aquariums deck the tanks and embrace scuba SantaPlanet Business: Instagram advertising forecast, Chrystia Freeland’s resignation and the highest-paid female sports starsSat Dec 21 2024 - 06:15
Nama completes €400m cash transfer to exchequerState assets agency’s total contribution to date stands at €4.69bn which is expected to rise to €5.2bn by end-2025 wind-upFri Dec 20 2024 - 17:20
Thousands of Three Ireland customers due refund of €269 on average after ComReg investigation About 14,000 customers affected by company’s failure to send appropriate notificationsFri Dec 20 2024 - 15:53
Vodafone Ireland narrows loss to €4.8m amid 5G network investmentRevenue rises 2.8% to €1bn as chief executive Amanda Nelson hails ‘positive performance’Fri Dec 20 2024 - 06:00
European markets slip as investors take fright at Federal Reserve signal on ratesWall Street rebounds slightly from a selloff prompted by the Fed‘s hawkish 2025 outlook on interest ratesThu Dec 19 2024 - 18:32
Upbeat report on National Digital Research Centre published by Department of CommunicationsReview by Indecon, submitted in 2023, finds NDRC’s accelerator programme exceeded its targets in 2021 and 2022, but centre is now slated to closeWed Dec 18 2024 - 18:45
Galway’s arthouse Pálás cinema to close after ‘stark’ financial lossesClosure of seven-year-old venue blamed on rising costs, Covid and ‘oversaturation of commercial cinemas’Wed Dec 18 2024 - 15:42
People moving jobs earn more than those who stay, says Central Bank researchLabour Force Survey data suggests job switching is ‘important mechanism for wage growth’, especially in tight labour marketsWed Dec 18 2024 - 15:23
Christmas TV takes the Casablanca approach – rounding up the usual suspectsGhost of Christmas Past does overtime as broadcasters make viewers nostalgic for a time when nostalgia was a little less creakyTue Dec 17 2024 - 06:05
Google boggles minds as it says quantum chip ‘lends credence’ to the existence of a multiversePlanet Business: Ancient Rome auction update, the Murdoch ‘Succession memo’ and people/muppets who have rung the New York Stock Exchange’s opening bellSat Dec 14 2024 - 06:15
European stocks recoup early losses and finish higherInvestors added to bets that the Federal Reserve will cut interest rates later this monthWed Dec 11 2024 - 18:23
