RTÉ to begin consultations with union representatives on proposed cost-cutting measuresKevin Bakhurst says planned 50% increase in spending on independent commissioning ‘won’t happen overnight’Thu Nov 16 2023 - 01:00
Kevin Bakhurst interview: ‘The RTÉ Player needs to be top of the class’Interview: Director general on plans for its Dublin and Cork bases, whether Fair City should be outsourced and his relationship with GovernmentWed Nov 15 2023 - 06:39
RTÉ stars to be hit by €250,000 salary capJoe Duffy, Claire Byrne and Miriam O’Callaghan’s earnings to drop as Kevin Bakhurst outlines plan to shed 400 people from workforceWed Nov 15 2023 - 05:00
It would make no sense to sell RTÉ's Donnybrook campus, says BakhurstDirector general tells staff that State broadcaster is looking to buy new studios in CorkTue Nov 14 2023 - 21:45
RTÉ crisis: no staff on more than €250,000 under new plan, with some presenters facing cutsJoe Duffy, Claire Byrne and Miriam O’Callaghan will lose out as part of cost-cutting in Bakhurst’s turnaround planTue Nov 14 2023 - 19:29
RTÉ plan ‘not about ripping the heart out’ of broadcaster, staff told, but Montrose mood is bleakLaura Slattery: Director general’s tricky task was to share details of a leaked plan headlined by a ‘big number’ of job lossesTue Nov 14 2023 - 19:13
Marketing group Core records 33% rise in profitDublin-based company said 2023 had been ‘extremely strong’ to date despite tighter marketing budgetsTue Nov 14 2023 - 12:04
Slapps, lawfare and Buying Silence: How the wealthy and powerful evade scrutinyLaura Slattery: Aggressive legal tactics recounted in new book by libel lawyer David Hooper highlights urgent need for anti-Slapp measuresTue Nov 14 2023 - 06:00
WeWork: hyped start-up to investor darling to bankruptcy in just 13 yearsPlanet Business: António Costa resigns as Portuguese prime minister, Lidiane Jones swaps Slack for Bumble and this year’s hotly-tipped Christmas toysSat Nov 11 2023 - 07:00
RTÉ appoints Gavin Deans in ‘critical’ role of commercial directorGavin Deans, who joins from Media Central, will be charged with ‘optimising’ advertising revenues amid licence fee crisisFri Nov 10 2023 - 16:00
Pat Kenny sees biggest listener gain at 9am after summer shakeup on Irish radioRTÉ Radio 1 and Today FM record higher audiences in crucial time slot, but Kenny’s Newstalk show emerges as main beneficiary of upheavalThu Nov 09 2023 - 12:00
European shares edge higher after strong company earningsRyanair continues to climb, while Marks & Spencer is the star performer on the FTSE 100Wed Nov 08 2023 - 18:23
Coimisiún na Méan approves additional funding of €2.4m for radio stationsCommunity-themed programmes among those to receive money under the regulator’s Sound & Vision schemeTue Nov 07 2023 - 12:57
Spotify’s zero-royalty plan tells musicians their work is worthlessLaura Slattery: Proposed minimum annual threshold of 1,000 plays before a track generates any payment is beyond dismalTue Nov 07 2023 - 06:00
Dublin ad agency Micromedia applies to operate five digital billboards using solar power‘Sustainable’ proposal to council also includes quota for the promotion of cultural activitiesTue Nov 07 2023 - 06:00
Actors’ strike flirts with an ending, but will the climax be worthy of Hollywood?Planet Business: Helen MacNamara’s Covid testimony, We Work’s imminent bankruptcy and invitees to Bletchley ParkSat Nov 04 2023 - 06:15
Beatles podcast mania: Irish-made Nothing is Real nears three million downloadsAcclaimed ‘gem’ presented by two ‘Beatles Brain of Ireland’ champions has become the podcast fans of the band have got to get into their livesSat Nov 04 2023 - 06:15
Mounting alarm in Government over corporation tax revenue as receipts continue to plummetExchequer returns indicate valuable revenue stream ebbing for the third month in successionSat Nov 04 2023 - 04:00
‘Volatile’ corporation tax receipts plummet 45% in OctoberThird straight month of decline means total corporation tax take now running lower for the year to dateFri Nov 03 2023 - 16:30
Advertising campaigns failing to represent modern Irish households, research findsAlmost two-thirds of people say the portrayal of families in ads is stereotypical, Folk Wunderman Thompson study findsFri Nov 03 2023 - 06:00
Aldi’s Irish sales edge higher but profits halve amid bid to contain price risesRetailer says price shielding strategy is ‘the right one’ in the medium term despite impact on profitabilityThu Nov 02 2023 - 05:15
Heineken Ireland axes Island’s Edge stoutStout backed with multimillion euro marketing campaign failed to lure drinkersThu Nov 02 2023 - 05:08
New car registrations fall 17% in OctoberTotal of 22,280 electric cars registered in first 10 months of the year, up 46%, SIMI figures showWed Nov 01 2023 - 13:53
Better to be spooked by AI than complacent about the impact it will have on our livesAI is destined to become our ‘co-pilot’ at work – whether we want one or notTue Oct 31 2023 - 06:15
Finally the flying cars are here. Well, almostPlanet Business: 44-year high for cocoa prices, Tinder’s new Matchmaker feature and Michael Cohen’s big weekSat Oct 28 2023 - 06:15
Retail sales rise as furniture and hardware sales jump Volume of sales was down 1.2% on a monthly basis, CSO figures showFri Oct 27 2023 - 11:45
Almost half of adults own a smart speaker, finds radio industry reportRevenues in the Irish market rose 2% to €113 million in the first nine months of 2023Fri Oct 27 2023 - 06:15
Influencers told by consumer watchdog to use ‘ad’ and ‘gifted’ hashtags in postsCCPC and ASAI issue joint guidance ahead of month-long ‘sweep’ of influencer contentFri Oct 27 2023 - 05:45
European markets inch higher on strong day for mining stocksUS shares buoyed by slew of upbeat corporate forecastsTue Oct 24 2023 - 18:19
Who wants to buy the Telegraph? Almost everybodyInfluential UK media group is up for auction with several rival news publishers hoping to claim the prizeTue Oct 24 2023 - 06:15
Apple’s Tim Cook drops in on China while Xi hangs out with ‘dear friend’ PutinPlanet Business: Manchester United’s stake saga, Starboard Value’s thoughts on News Corp and soaps we have known and loved, but not enoughSat Oct 21 2023 - 06:30
Creative leadership in advertising ‘in peril’ as tech giants lure talent, says agency founderIndustry needs to be ‘more protective of its time’, Uncommon co-founder Nils Leonard tells IAPI and Marketing Society of Ireland eventThu Oct 19 2023 - 17:25
Craft sector sells Made Local message ahead of key festive season Design & Craft Council Ireland signs singer, songwriter and musician Lyra as brand ambassador for campaignWed Oct 18 2023 - 18:12
Sky Ireland boosts broadband services through wholesale deal with Virgin MediaPartnership allows Sky to enhance its offer to customers and comes amid a €200m network upgrade by VirginWed Oct 18 2023 - 10:48
European markets edge lower after batch of downbeat company earningsInvestors keep eye on geopolitical tensions ahead of trip by US president Joe Biden to IsraelTue Oct 17 2023 - 18:08
Minister of State will ‘take on board’ proposal that Ireland seek to host EU office for regulating AIPlanned AI advisory council has received an ‘overwhelming’ number of applications, says Dara CallearyTue Oct 17 2023 - 17:45
Government doing everything to distance itself from job losses at RTÉAny exit scheme at the broadcaster, even voluntary, would risk making it look like ‘ordinary workers’ were paying unfair priceTue Oct 17 2023 - 06:00
Ireland’s quarter-final Rugby World Cup exit brings highest ever audience to Virgin Media TelevisionHeartbreaking defeat to New Zealand takes spot as biggest TV event of 2023 so far with 1.378m viewersMon Oct 16 2023 - 15:27
RTÉ misses out on Ireland rugby semi-final bonanza after rights ‘gamble’Virgin Media Television eyeing fresh viewing record for Ireland’s quarter-final Rugby World Cup defeat to New ZealandMon Oct 16 2023 - 06:00
Space sector funding hampered by rules on defence investment, says expert‘Unresolved conflict’ must be addressed to bring in more early-stage investment to the Irish industry, IIEA event hearsMon Oct 16 2023 - 05:45
Inside RTÉ: rats, redundancies and shattered moraleBroadcaster's dispirited employees say they are bearing the brunt of both management missteps and political hostilitySat Oct 14 2023 - 07:00
The bank that loves branches – and, no, it’s not in great financial shapePlanet Business: Starmer merch, Apple’s obsolete watches and the first solo female winner of the Nobel prize for economicsSat Oct 14 2023 - 06:15
European stock markets edge higher as Novo Nordisk shares jump againOzempic maker’s shares rise after positive update on its diabetes drug, while Birkenstock makes its Wall Street debutWed Oct 11 2023 - 19:18
RTÉ needs State money to fund voluntary job cuts, director general tells staffKevin Bakhurst says he will present a strategic plan in early November to reduce numbersWed Oct 11 2023 - 18:31
RTÉ will receive public funding this year but only if broadcaster sets out reformsResponsibility lies with cash-strapped broadcaster to agree post-crisis changes to secure additional State funding, says Minister for Public Expenditure Paschal DonohoeTue Oct 10 2023 - 21:46
As it happened: Budget 2024 brings mortgage relief and USC cutsSinn Féin says Coalition produced ‘budget for landlords’ while teaching bodies say it will not address recruitment and retention challengesTue Oct 10 2023 - 21:33
Budget 2024: Improved screen tax credit will attract bigger productions to Ireland, says industryScreen Ireland welcomes increase in expenditure cap to €125m amid ‘all-time high’ for film and TV budgetsTue Oct 10 2023 - 19:03
Netflix has scored a brilliant goal with Beckham seemingly out of nowhereBeckham series makes it clear that fame is as traumatic as it is absurdTue Oct 10 2023 - 06:00
North’s summer economic malaise continues into SeptemberEmployment only ‘bright spot’ as business activity remains weak, Ulster Bank snapshot findsMon Oct 09 2023 - 04:45
US vs Sam Bankman-Fried, fraud trial of the decade so far, gets under way in New YorkPlanet Business: First ever space junk fine, the band being sued by easyJet’s owner and Conservative Party merchSat Oct 07 2023 - 06:15
