Last One Laughing Ireland: Behind the scenes with Graham Norton and Aisling Bea on the new Irish comedy showHow do you stop yourself from laughing, or even smiling, and what does it do to your psyche if you do? A new Prime Video series sees 10 Irish comics strive to keep a straight faceSat Jan 13 2024 - 06:00
Late Late Toy Show tops most-watched TV list in year dominated by rugbyRTÉ coverage of Dublin riot secures biggest news viewership of 2023, with 9pm bulletin on November 23rd the 11th most-watched programmeThu Jan 11 2024 - 10:57
The Traitors is arbitrary and brutal, like January – give me more of itThe cliffhanger-loving BBC reality show is an addictive new year distraction that makes its viewers waitTue Jan 09 2024 - 06:00
Corporate insolvencies will occur at rate of almost three per day this year, forecasts PwCWave of 229 insolvencies in fourth quarter brought total for 2023 to a ‘higher than expected’ total of 717Mon Jan 08 2024 - 06:00
Newstalk owner Bauer lobbies Catherine Martin about keeping licensed radio stations ‘easy to find’ in carsMove comes amid concerns car manufacturers are ditching radio receivers, while rise of smart speakers has given tech companies greater power over audio industryMon Jan 08 2024 - 05:45
Asking prices for homes rise 4.1% in 2023, says MyHome.ieSupply shortages continue to affect the market, according to the property websiteMon Jan 08 2024 - 05:30
Bright lights, big equities, as Wall Street eyes 2024 sequel for the Magnificent SevenPlanet Business: Steamboat Willie, the first female centibillionaire and this year’s tipped holiday destinationsSat Jan 06 2024 - 06:15
European shares recoup losses but JD Sports shares plunge after profit warningRyanair arrests its slide with airline gaining 0.4% on Dublin listingThu Jan 04 2024 - 18:16
Corporate insolvencies reach highest level in five years after 25% rise in 2023Total of 663 insolvencies last year, with numbers in hospitality and construction jumping 62%, according to Deloitte IrelandThu Jan 04 2024 - 06:00
Planet Business: ‘Yes, the salary is enormous’ and other quotes of the yearApologies, denials, deadly cocktails and some good old-fashioned warnings of imminent doom: 2023 had many lines to rememberSun Dec 31 2023 - 06:20
Planet Business: A $1 billion mega-tour and other numbers of the yearFrom flight cancellation misery and forfeited pay to corporation tax hauls and obesity drug bonanzas, everything in 2023 had either a value or a costSat Dec 30 2023 - 06:15
Fridays bring unique ‘surge’ in broadband activity from about 2pm, says Vodafone IrelandIncreased demand for streaming sees rise in mobile and broadband usage in 2023, though number of voice calls fallsThu Dec 28 2023 - 05:45
Irish advertising market will grow 3.2% in 2024 but print and TV revenue will fall, says GroupMDigital, radio, out-of-home and cinema advertising all forecast to increase next yearWed Dec 27 2023 - 21:00
European shares edge higher as trading resumes after Christmas breakWall Street’s main indexes struggle for direction in the absence of any major catalystWed Dec 27 2023 - 17:48
Meltdown at Montrose: RTÉ's year from hell as drama of Tubsgate became existential crisisFrom bombshell statements to tense committee hearings to a string of budget cuts, it has been an incendiary 2023 for the public service broadcasterWed Dec 27 2023 - 06:30
Planet Business: Copycat layoffs, hallucinations and other words of the yearFrom ‘bare minimum Monday’ to ‘rapid unscheduled disassembly’, some additions to the lexicon of 2023 sounded less painful than othersWed Dec 27 2023 - 06:10
Feline frontier: in space no one can hear you miaowPlanet Business: Nasa experiments, seasonal indigestion, Masimo’s Joe Kiani and CEOs who left their jobs in 2023Sat Dec 23 2023 - 06:15
European stocks rise led by gains in London marketFTSE 100 index jumps 1 per cent after UK inflation plunges to lowest rate in more than two yearsWed Dec 20 2023 - 18:37
Department of Public Expenditure narrows gender pay gap to 2.6%Government department ‘provides all employees with equal opportunities’, it saysWed Dec 20 2023 - 17:15
RTÉ to launch voluntary redundancy scheme and publish register of interests early next year - BakhurstList of 2022 earnings for the 10 highest-paid presenters and reports on Toy Show the Musical and previous exit schemes will also be made publicTue Dec 19 2023 - 18:04
Death, tax credits and great lines underpin quietly stellar year for Irish TV dramaObituary, Northern Lights, The Dry and Blue Lights brought a critical mass of quality to our screens in 2023, but future is far from certainTue Dec 19 2023 - 06:05
Big Poinsettia blooms again as houseplant exerts annual hold over festive foliagePlanet Business: Hasbro’s nightmare holiday season, the ascent of Viking Toast and Christmas TV fareSat Dec 16 2023 - 06:15
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
