Global uncertainty leaves Irish economy in tight spot – IbecBusiness group forecasts upgraded GDP growth of 2% in 2024 and 3.4% in 2025Mon Apr 15 2024 - 06:00
Carlow students to represent Ireland at European Money Quiz in BrusselsMaria Miller and Lily O’Connor from Presentation College Carlow won the Irish final of Europe’s largest financial education competitionMon Apr 15 2024 - 05:45
‘Solarbration’ for eclipse tourists on the ground as air passengers crane for viewsPlanet Business: Toy films in development, a new chairman at UK air traffic contol company Nats and a break in Olympic traditionSat Apr 13 2024 - 06:15
Fresh drama at RTÉ: Can the broadcaster still afford to make landmark Irish television?No ghosts, vampires or mummies, RTÉ has told pitching producers. But as it plots its way out of its financial crisis, what type of stories is it bringing to viewers?Sat Apr 13 2024 - 06:00
European shares fall to one-month low as ECB’s signal on rate cut hits bank stocksBank stocks decline 2.4%, notching up their steepest one-day drop in more than eight monthsThu Apr 11 2024 - 18:09
Loss of 50 jobs at Mediahuis Ireland includes compulsory redundanciesNumber of staff involved in print publishing has dropped since announcement of new scheme in JanuaryThu Apr 11 2024 - 17:23
Show-us-the-money time for Irish press amid plans for publicly funded news coverageCoimisiún na Meán has opened up consultations on its local democracy and courts reporting schemes – it’s a landmark moment for news publishersTue Apr 09 2024 - 06:05
Japanese workers brace for corporate party invitations under the cherry blossomsPlanet Business: FTSE 100 crosses 8,000 again, Alex Kroes is suspended at Ajax and Taylor Swift becomes a billionaireSat Apr 06 2024 - 06:15
Hoteliers on rising premiums: ‘The insurance market is broken’Increases in the cost of insurance have come at exactly the wrong time for many businesses in the hospitality sectorSat Apr 06 2024 - 06:00
Proposed wind farm off Wicklow further reduces maximum turbine number to 75Codling Wind Park developers reveal final design of Irish Sea project to be submitted for planning approval this summerFri Apr 05 2024 - 06:00
Ireland’s global innovation ranking would climb significantly without GDP measure, council says National Competitiveness and Productivity Council finds that modified GNI improves the Republic’s position to 12thThu Apr 04 2024 - 11:37
Service sector growth gains momentum in MarchTotal activity and new business rose at the fastest rates since July 2023Thu Apr 04 2024 - 06:00
European stocks advance on renewed hopes of June interest rate cutThe market now sees a 71% chance of a European Central Bank rate cut in two months’ timeWed Apr 03 2024 - 19:00
Serena Williams to be advised on business interests by Declan Kelly’s Consello GroupNew York-based company has expanded its relationship with the 23-time Grand Slam tennis champion turned serial investorTue Apr 02 2024 - 17:54
Netflix’s 3 Body Problem ratings show we still live in a chaotic streaming eraIn its first four days, some 81.7 million hours of this big-budget science fiction series were consumed by subscribers – but that might not be enough to secure renewalTue Apr 02 2024 - 06:15
Who needs a profit? Trump superfans propel loss-making Truth Social to huge Wall Street debutPlanet Business: Champagne region extension, all change at Boeing and a controversial Titanic prop goes under the hammerSat Mar 30 2024 - 06:15
Business insolvencies rise more than 40% as hospitality sector comes under pressureSome Irish businesses continue to struggle, PwC says, as Revenue’s warehoused debt deadline approachesThu Mar 28 2024 - 06:00
Hospitality sector insolvencies jump 142% in first quarter35 restaurants and cafes became insolvent in the first three months of 2024, according to DeloitteWed Mar 27 2024 - 15:12
Laura Slattery: Ladybird’s The Story of Newspapers has dated surprisingly wellNewsroom pipe-smoking and the ubiquity of print aside, there is plenty to recognise in this 1969 children’s guide to the industryTue Mar 26 2024 - 06:05
Chips are yesterday’s news – here come the superchipsPlanet Business: Unilever’s ice-cream masterplan, the Telegraph’s rejected suitor and the belated US asbestos banSat Mar 23 2024 - 06:15
Injected and proud: The heavily botoxed look has become a status symbolBlack market in botox and fillers, often targeting under-40s, has been permitted to flourish at huge costSat Mar 23 2024 - 06:05
Bauer Media Audio acquires southeast radio station Beat 102-103The Irish Times has been a 75% shareholder in Beat for the past six yearsFri Mar 22 2024 - 17:06
European shares flat as investors await outcome of crucial Federal Reserve meetingLuxury goods groups decline as Gucci owner Kering shares tumble almost 12%Wed Mar 20 2024 - 18:33
Eir launches €2m ‘Eir for all’ campaign in ‘start of a new chapter’First brand refresh since 2015 follows €1.2 billion investment in telecoms company’s infrastructure and customer careWed Mar 20 2024 - 15:01
Senior baseball: Varadkar gives it Sox on guided tour of Boston groundPlanet Business: Lego’s outperformance, Reddit’s imminent IPO and the highest-paid actors of 2023Sat Mar 16 2024 - 06:15
European markets lose momentum amid sticky US inflationHotter than expected US producer prices data has clouded the timing of Federal Reserve interest rate cutsThu Mar 14 2024 - 19:06
‘To be Instagram-worthy is part of the doughnut game now’: Krispy Kreme looks towards further Irish expansionDoughnut company’s UK & Ireland boss Jamie Dunning on inflation, upmarket competitors and its e-commerce plansThu Mar 14 2024 - 18:33
European shares touch new record highs as retail stocks jumpTech stocks and chipmakers decline on Wall StreetWed Mar 13 2024 - 18:34
Revenue nets more than €5m from 16 tax defaulters in final quarter of 2023GAA commentator and author Brian Carthy makes settlement of €129,759Tue Mar 12 2024 - 17:01
In March, a Minister’s place is still in the airport lounge, ready to departIreland’s Global Greening is over, but the Great Global Scattering of Ministers is only warming upTue Mar 12 2024 - 06:00
Mark Zuckerberg mixes business with pleasure as he drops in on wedding party thrown by Asia’s richest manPlanet Business: Willy’s Chocolate Experience turns bitter, Apple’s stalled electric car project and Kellogg’s boss offers budgetary adviceSat Mar 02 2024 - 06:30
‘We have to tell our own stories’ – Ed Guiney on new Dublin screenwriting festivalAt a ‘very tough’ moment for the international industry, the Element Pictures co-founder hopes this month’s Storyhouse event at the Light House can help screenwriters ‘move to the next phase’Fri Mar 01 2024 - 06:05
Seven complaints registered with new online watchdog centre Coimisiún na Meán to follow up reports to its contact centre with relevant digital services companiesWed Feb 28 2024 - 13:41
Company bosses ‘shy away’ from topics of national importance in social media postsSky’s Stephen van Rooyen tops Reputations Agency’s ranking of most influential CEOs on LinkedIn, ahead of Meta’s Anne O’Leary and Primark’s Paul MarchantWed Feb 28 2024 - 06:00
Laura Slattery: Everybody involved in this rolling RTÉ omni-crisis has literally lost the plotMinister for Media Catherine Martin’s ‘deep disappointment’ with Siún Ní Raghallaigh is much ado about absolutely nothingTue Feb 27 2024 - 06:15
Virgin Media Ireland has ‘no plans’ to add Sky Sports Tennis channelBroadcast rights to the US Open and most men’s and women’s tour events have moved to Sky, but Virgin customers paying for Sky Sports won’t have TV accessTue Feb 27 2024 - 06:05
Irish hoteliers warn that forward bookings are down almost 5%Irish Hotels Federation reports a drop in business sentiment as members meet for annual conferenceMon Feb 26 2024 - 05:00
Revenue clampdown could spoil the office party as taxes hit workplace celebrationsSeen & Heard: Bank of Ireland motor finance redress, CIÉ site proceedings, future of Tara Mines, Dublin Airport cap poll and Porterhouse sale of brewery to Conor McGregorSun Feb 25 2024 - 12:27
Cancel the proposal: No love for Eiffel Tower operators as strikes shut down symbol of ParisPlanet Business: Taylor Swift eats out in Sydney, UK administrators ‘re-energise’ the Body Shop and Donald Trump gets into the perfume gameSat Feb 24 2024 - 06:15
New global tax rules will not hinder foreign investment, says Irish Tax InstituteInstitute president Tom Reynolds calls on Revenue to be ‘pragmatic’ in approach to tax complianceFri Feb 23 2024 - 15:51
RTÉ's golden goodbyes and confidentiality clauses are normal in business, say lawyers RTÉ director general Kevin Bakhurst has published updated legal advice from Arthur Cox on what he can disclose about the exit paymentsThu Feb 22 2024 - 12:48
BBC orders further two series of hit Belfast police drama Blue LightsDrama slate also includes The Listeners, a novel adaptation made by Poor Things producers Element PicturesThu Feb 22 2024 - 11:22
European shares slip as investors brace for Federal Reserve minutesTech-heavy Nasdaq leads declines on Wall Street ahead of earnings update from chip giant NvidiaWed Feb 21 2024 - 17:57
Domestic overnight trips up 7% in first nine months of 2023Irish residents take 4.5m domestic overnight trips and 4m outbound overnight trips in the third quarter, says CSOWed Feb 21 2024 - 12:48
‘Year of elections’ could lift news publishers – even if print ads are not the next ginHeightened political climate should push people back to trusted content as long as publishers ‘stand up and own’ the spaceTue Feb 20 2024 - 06:00
And the Bafta for best film-inspired resurgence goes to ... Sophie Ellis-BextorPlanet Business: Lyft gets its numbers wrong, Joe Biden joins TikTok and what we know about the Paris OlympicsSat Feb 17 2024 - 06:15
Web Summit profits slump more than 90% but revenue risesTurnover soared 65% to a record €52.5m in 2022 amid return to in-person events, with costs rising as it invested in expansionFri Feb 16 2024 - 16:19
Website will increase public awareness about media ownership, says DCUMom Ireland project, the first of its kind in Europe, is supported by Coimisiún na Meán with co-funding from the EUFri Feb 16 2024 - 06:00
European stocks rise as French and German markets reach record highsRenault, Pernod Ricard and Commerzbank among the gainers, but fall for Kerry leaves Iseq in the redThu Feb 15 2024 - 17:57
RTÉ board members were ‘deceived’ about Toy Show the Musical, Oireachtas media committee hearsAnne O’Leary of RTÉ board’s Audit and Risk Committee told Wednesday’s hearing the show was ‘presented as a fait accompli’Wed Feb 14 2024 - 21:25
