Fiona McHugh, former Sunday Times Ireland editor and Fallon & Byrne co-founder, dies aged 57Journalist and businesswoman remembered as person of vision and generosity who championed friends and colleaguesWed Mar 12 2025 - 16:49
Blank-tape bliss can never be repeated In the media industry, as on video cassettes, there is vivid colour, but no lifetime guaranteeTue Mar 11 2025 - 06:05
Matt the Thresher acquires the Lime Kiln in JulianstownRestaurant will close for refurbishment in April before reopening under new name in MayMon Mar 10 2025 - 05:00
No kings, skiing in jeans and apologies to Canada in a week of inventive protest signs in Trump’s USPlanet Business: Bernard Looney gets a new gig, Abrdn relocates its missing vowels and Justin Trudeau gets angrySat Mar 08 2025 - 06:15
Katherine Ryan: ‘It’s always disarming for people that I just say what I think’The Irish-Canadian comedian on openness and emigration, expanding her family and why being the only one with a microphone is ‘a very alpha role’Sat Mar 08 2025 - 05:35
Mortgage approvals climb 4.1% in JanuaryNumber of approved first-time buyer loans declines Fri Mar 07 2025 - 06:00
European shares close flat after ECB rate cut boosts bank stocksTariff uncertainty lingered, while chip stocks declined on Wall StreetThu Mar 06 2025 - 17:56
Nominations open for annual Business to Arts AwardsThe Irish Times is sponsoring a new €5,000 bursary in 2025 awards, which also includes new ESB-backed award for creative sustainability projectsWed Mar 05 2025 - 06:00
Lidl to open up in Carrigstown in RTÉ Fair City product placement dealSoap opera’s store to become discount supermarket in summer as broadcaster prepares to move set offsite eventuallyWed Mar 05 2025 - 06:00
Deirdre Ní Choistín appointed director general of TG4‘Joy and a privilege’ to succeed Alan Esslemont in role leading Irish language broadcasterTue Mar 04 2025 - 19:48
Moving to New Zealand may not be enough to avoid Donald Trump Watching the US president is like ‘watching a car crash over and over and over’, says director James Cameron. And yet much of the current security crisis had, until Friday, been weirdly ignorable for other reasonsTue Mar 04 2025 - 06:05
Surging defence stocks lead European markets to record highExpectations of higher military spending in Europe saw key stocks in sector make gainsMon Mar 03 2025 - 18:29
The Irish connection to Banksy’s painting that’s expected to fetch as much as €6m at auctionPlanet Business: Taylor Swift’s IFPI triumph, Mira Murati’s new AI venture and tourism slogans gone awrySat Feb 22 2025 - 06:15
European shares closed at record high as banking and defence stocks gainWall Street subdued as investors watch for signs of escalation in US trade restrictionsTue Feb 18 2025 - 18:38
James Murdoch, Rupert’s ‘troublesome beneficiary’, has shared a story that’s painful for us allIn the brittle real-life afterlife to Succession, rifts within the Murdoch family demonstrate how fact can be more tumultuous and twisted than fictionTue Feb 18 2025 - 06:15
RSM Ireland relocates Dublin head office to Iveagh CourtMove follows acquisition of audit firm in 2023 by RSM UKMon Feb 17 2025 - 06:00
Look back in nostalgia: RTÉ seeks new sponsor for Reeling in the YearsBroadcaster has priced sponsorship deal for repeats of the enduringly popular news archive series at €100,000Mon Feb 17 2025 - 06:00
Imagine expands market reach after deal with National Broadband IrelandArmenian-owned firm says it will now be able to offer faster speeds to customersMon Feb 17 2025 - 05:30
Safe, transparent, trustworthy AI? No thanks, say US and UKPlanet Business: Plastic straw update, Elon Musk’s 19-year-old Doge lieutenant and the latest in Gulf of America appeasementSat Feb 15 2025 - 06:10
Should adult children living at home pay rent? Our readers respondThe average age for moving out of the family home is 28. What kind of financial contribution, if any, should people make in the meantime?Fri Feb 14 2025 - 06:00
European markets close at fresh record highUpbeat earnings from German industrial giant Siemens lift investor sentimentThu Feb 13 2025 - 18:28
AI infrastructure provider Crusoe opens European headquarters in Dublin Move to grow workforce to 100 people over three years welcomed by Minister for EnterpriseWed Feb 12 2025 - 16:54
Trump alarm bells drown out whispers of resistance in WashingtonPlanet Business: Diageo’s tariff ‘complexity’, Virgin Money’s huffy chatbot and Meta’s sincerest form of flatterySat Feb 08 2025 - 06:15
Tullamore ham maker Carroll Cuisine sees pretax profit drop to €3.5mCompany now owned by Canada’s Sofina Foods paid a dividend of €7.7m for the year to the end of March 2024Fri Feb 07 2025 - 14:50
Brendan O’Connor enjoys biggest gain in radio listenership in 2024RTÉ Radio 1 records higher audiences across its weekday schedule in period including general electionThu Feb 06 2025 - 12:16
Irish services sector makes ‘soft start’ to yearAIB purchasing managers index records weaker rate of growth in JanuaryThu Feb 06 2025 - 06:00
Waterstones’ Irish sales rise 4% amid ‘increased popularity’ of reading and physical bookshopsBookseller owned by US investment group Elliott reports ‘encouraging growth’ in Irish storesWed Feb 05 2025 - 18:39
European shares edge higher in choppy tradingFTSE 100 declines but ends well off its lows amid hopes of a de-escalation in Donald Trump’s trade war.Tue Feb 04 2025 - 17:46
Should RTÉ stop showing Chitty Chitty Bang Bang so much?Minister for Media Patrick O’Donovan says reruns of old films won’t cut it for Montrose. Who’s going to break the news to Dick Van Dyke?Tue Feb 04 2025 - 06:05
IT and cybersecurity company Qualcom forecasts €18m revenues by end of 2027Dublin and Belfast company plans to increase workforce by a fifth amid demand for servicesTue Feb 04 2025 - 06:00
State-owned ISIF launches new energy transition fund with Schroders GreencoatFund will seek to invest “in a number of projects” of Ireland, with a focus on greenfield new build projects.Tue Feb 04 2025 - 06:00
All change in the briefing room, as White House holds space for influencers and content creatorsPlanet Business: French AI chatbot Lucie, Boeing’s new 737 targets and Roman Abramovich’s yacht schemeSat Feb 01 2025 - 06:10
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
