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
Top kids shows on Netflix suffer ‘diminishing returns’, Irish study findsIndustry-first analysis of the streamer’s own data confirms preschool titles originating on YouTube dominate its list of best performersTue Dec 10 2024 - 11:00
Catherine Martin’s greatest legacy as Minister for Media hangs in the balanceIt’s a cliffhanger moment for the Irish screen industry. Will producers here be boosted by the kind of levy on streamers now commonly found across the EU?Tue Dec 10 2024 - 06:15
Max streaming service, home of HBO series, will launch in Ireland in early 2026Sky Ireland customers and Now entertainment members will receive the app at no extra cost, succeeding Sky’s current deal with Warner Bros DiscoveryMon Dec 09 2024 - 15:46
South Korean drama of a fictional kind as Netflix winds up the Squid Game hype machine in ParisPlanet Business: Words of the year, Intel’s interim arrangement and the Death Clock app that claims to predict your likely date of deathSat Dec 07 2024 - 06:15
European stocks rise as investors hope new budget can be passed in FranceBenchmark Stoxx 600 index advances for the sixth consecutive trading sessionThu Dec 05 2024 - 19:16
Guardian strike over ‘rushed’ Observer sale shows there is still some loyalty in mediaStaff at the two newspapers plan a 48-hour work stoppage this week amid swelling hostility towards managementTue Dec 03 2024 - 06:15
Welcome to Trump 2.0: mutually assured economic destructionPlanet Business: Disney’s pay discrimination settlement, Warren Buffett’s children, and companies issuing profit warningsSat Nov 30 2024 - 06:15
Tonight Show presenters Ciara Doherty and Claire Brock leave Virgin Media TelevisionTwo long-serving journalists will depart the broadcaster after election coverage as number of shows is cut in halfFri Nov 29 2024 - 18:16
Household deposits rise 4.1% amid increase in term accountsDeposit accounts with agreed maturity of up to two years have increased by €7.9bn over the year to the end of OctoberFri Nov 29 2024 - 16:39
Tourism numbers fall in October but total spending risesCSO data shows overseas residents made 548,100 trips to the State in the monthFri Nov 29 2024 - 12:45
Byrne Wallace and LK Shields, two of Ireland’s largest law firms, agree to merge Merger to create Byrne Wallace Shields will help firms target ‘larger mandates’ from existing and new clientsFri Nov 29 2024 - 10:00
European shares edge higher as Wall Street takes Thanksgiving breatherTech and defence stocks rise, while investors await the release of key inflation dataThu Nov 28 2024 - 18:44
More than half of nursing homes did not report profit in 2023, report findsNursing Homes Ireland calls for publication of Fair Deal pricing review in first 100 days of next governmentThu Nov 28 2024 - 17:16
Profits rise at parent company of PR group Wilson HartnellNewswhip’s losses widen amid higher R&D investment in 2023Wed Nov 27 2024 - 12:43
Manifesto media pledges — ‘Netflix levy’, legal reform in 100 days and €500m a year for RTÉElection 2024: Sinn Féin remembers Coimisiún na Meán and other things gleaned from the parties’ media policiesTue Nov 26 2024 - 06:15
‘Starmer the Farmer Harmer’ the target of ire as British farmers mobilise in LondonPlanet Business: Infowars auction saga, Howard Lutnick’s thoughts on Ireland and a brief history of the ObserverSat Nov 23 2024 - 06:15
Bluesky is being touted as ‘Twitter before Elon Musk’. Can the good vibes last?Another week, another new social media app. Could this one be a keeper or will it degenerate like its once-enjoyable forerunners?Sat Nov 23 2024 - 06:00
European shares edge higher as energy and defence stocks make gainsGeopolitical tensions underpinned demand for safe-haven assetsThu Nov 21 2024 - 19:14
Central Bank fines payments company BlueSnap more than €300,000 for regulatory breachesBlueSnap ‘exposed its customers to significant risk’ by failing to deposit their funds in its designated safeguarding accountThu Nov 21 2024 - 13:09
Grafton Street named 17th most expensive ‘main street’ in the world on which to rent Cushman & Wakefield ranking places average rent on Dublin shopping street at €3,024 per square metreWed Nov 20 2024 - 17:16
Irish employment rate hits fresh record high in third quarterNumber of people employed has climbed to 2.79m amid greater female participation in the workforceWed Nov 20 2024 - 12:39
Bluesky, the non-toxic alternative to X, has had a glow-up. But is the app here to stay?Social media app that feels a lot like early Twitter has attracted millions of new users this month and, so far, is not annoying like ThreadsTue Nov 19 2024 - 06:05
Fossil fuels are ‘gifts from god’ and other delusions to emerge from Cop29Planet Business: Mattel’s red face, Donald Trump’s wild appointments and the concept of a Minister for LonelinessSat Nov 16 2024 - 06:15
Profit rises at Kelly’s Resort Hotel but falls at Renvyle House HotelTurnover grew 11.4% at Kelly’s Resort Hotel & Spa in Co Wexford in 2023Thu Nov 14 2024 - 06:00
European shares end the day on a dour noteBenchmark Stoxx 600 index closed at a three-month lowWed Nov 13 2024 - 18:47
RTÉ redundancy scheme sign-off delay ‘incredibly frustrating’ and costing millions, says BakhurstMinister of Public Expenditure and Reform has yet to give approval for a scheme that was meant to see 40 voluntary departures this yearWed Nov 13 2024 - 18:16
Big beams, tiny halos and cable ties: election posters are backParties and candidates have had lots of time to finesse their lamp-post strategy. But have they?Tue Nov 12 2024 - 06:15
Core’s Aidan Greene: ‘Amazon.ie will be a gamechanger for Irish advertising clients’The marketing communications group grew its net profit to more than €4m last year and has expanded again in 2024Mon Nov 11 2024 - 14:26
In Washington, the peaceful transfer of power surprises a city boarded up for violencePlanet Business: Royal private estate income, data-hungry air fryers and the companies keen for it to be Christmas alreadySat Nov 09 2024 - 06:15
RTÉ 2FM loses listeners after string of presenter exits‘Exciting plan’ for new schedule in early 2025, says RTÉ, while news programmes on Radio 1, Newstalk and Today FM look forward to general election boostThu Nov 07 2024 - 12:28
Keep calm-ala and carry on-ala? US election coverage enters its anxiety eraUS election: Kamala Harris escapes from Saturday Night Live, Donald Trump rails against Fox News and a much-threatened media sticks to seven swing states. The endgame is hereTue Nov 05 2024 - 06:15
