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Rate eases sharply in February as input costs for energy and fertiliser fall and retailers compete to keep prices down
Late Late far from the only game in town come September
Audience momentum after Patrick Kielty’s debut will be complicated by small matter of timing
Prince Harry autobiography Spare becomes Ireland’s fastest-selling non-fiction book
Spare sold more than 20,000 copies in its first week, beating the record previously held by Paul O’Connell
Subscription streaming services still lag broadcasters on average viewing time, TAM Ireland finds
Ratings body has installed Nielsen technology in a panel of Irish homes to track usage of subscription video-on-demand and video-sharing platforms
Chipmaker Broadcom in talks to buy VMware for up to €47bn
Takeover by chip industry’s arch-consolidator would mean a windfall for Michael Dell
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Less may still be too much for the overloaded media consumer
Jada Pinkett Smith calls for ‘healing’ in first comment since Oscars slap
‘This is a season for healing. And I’m here for it,’ actor and wife of Will Smith says
Booksellers made €9.6m Exchequer contribution in 2021, report finds
Sector calls on consumers to support local bookshops amid overseas online competition
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Cost and access are big draws for students opting to study in European colleges
In TV land, only the Toy Show and live sport have enduring appeal
Laura Slattery: The top television ratings a decade apart show how much has changed
Megxit, England’s defeat and 11 minutes less TV a day: what Irish viewers watched in 2021
Toy Show victorious once more, as news audiences drop from pandemic peak
Connacht-Munster rugby game is TG4’s festive ratings winner
Dancing with the Stars returns to RTÉ with 525,000 viewers
Sky News to be added to free-to-air TV platform Saorview next week
Long-running news channel available through RTÉ-owned service from Tuesday
Television sets are still our viewing device of choice
Far from disappearing from households, TVs are, if anything, getting bigger
Revolut partners with RTÉ on Late Late Toy Show charity appeal
App’s customers can use its donations feature to contribute this year
Love Island and rescheduled sport events help TV habits edge ‘back to normality’
Rate of decline slows in third quarter as Irish audiences return, says Core
Sally Rooney’s Beautiful World, Where Are You tops Irish and British book charts
Irish author’s novel has sold over 12,000 copies in Ireland and over 40,000 in UK
Heineken Ireland bids for 10% of stout market with launch of Island’s Edge
Drinks company will ‘invest heavily’ in brand between now and end of 2021
Shed Distillery aims to attract 30,000 visitors to Co Leitrim
Company behind Drumshanbo Gunpowder gin sees revenues rise even with pandemic
Hop House 13 to live on locally after being axed in Britain
Guinness spin-off discontinued in Britain after sales nosedived during pandemic
Oscars night 2021: No Zoom, no Ferrero Rocher, and less than 864 TikToks long
Steven Soderbergh has been asked to shake up the Academy Awards ceremony on Sunday
Meghan and Harry interview brings 725,000 viewers to RTÉ2
Oprah special with couple on track to be in top 20 biggest shows on Irish TV this year
European shares end higher as major commodity stocks reverse losses
Iseq struggles to stay positive with Kerry and Glanbia keeping it from falling into the red
Sky sees brighter fourth quarter as revenue drops 4.2% in 2020
Customer growth had returned by the end of the pandemic-stricken year
TV audience for Biden inauguration tops Trump’s from 2017
Roughly 40 million people watched live coverage of ceremony on six networks
Irish TV viewing boosted by pandemic despite rise of streaming
News programmes dominate annual chart, but a look back to 1970 also appeals
Dubliners concert helps TG4 to its best Christmas in a decade
Recording of ‘lost’ concert at Christ Church was broadcaster’s most-watched festive show
Late Late Toy Show watched by its biggest audience on record
Leo Varadkar’s emergency address to nation still out in front for live viewership
Sky generates €751m in revenues from Irish subscription services
Sky Ireland boosted by Sports Extra and growth from existing businesses including Now TV
US Election: CNN’s John King wins Irish viewers’ votes
Derry Girls screenwriter Lisa McGee tweeted ‘is@JohnKingCNN Irish yet?’
Positive economic data and signs of manufacturing revival boost markets
Ryanair and Smurfit Kappa make big gains in Dublin
Chris Wallace ‘never dreamt’ debate would go off tracks the way it did
‘It is what it is,’ says Fox News journalist following presidential show down
Coca-Cola still Ireland’s biggest-selling brand as Tayto moves up to third
Checkout Top 100 brands list shows no lack of love for crisps, chocolate and soft drinks
Netflix’s 10 most watched movies – and what the list reveals
The list offers insights what does and doesn’t work within its ever-growing library – but can we expect more of the same?
A million beers await drinkers as Europe's bars reopen
Beer makers are putting together imaginative schemes to lure back custom
European domestic football returns in coronavirus-free Faroe Islands
Norway, Sweden and Denmark all broadcast Saturday’s games live with no fans present
The true carbon cost of feeding the data centre monster
EirGrid calculates that by 2028 data centres will be consuming 29% of Ireland’s electricity
Coronavirus: Take-home alcohol sales almost 40% higher than last year
Some €158m spent on alcohol in the Republic over the past four weeks
Coronavirus spurs scramble for coffee beans
Coffee has become one of the world’s top-performing commodities as demand surges
Wheat prices rise as shoppers rush to stockpile pasta and flour
French shoppers stockpiling baguettes to freeze
The cavemen within: Did love, not war, bring an end to Neanderthals?
Scientists believe humans and Neanderthals merged in Europe to become one new species
Thomson Reuters names former Nielsen president as CEO
Steve Hasker will succeed Jim Smith at the media group from March 15th, company said
Your business week: Election-hit Bank of Ireland to report results
Salesforce, Glanbia and CRH to report; Guaranteed Irish roadshow on future trends takes place in UCC
UK supermarkets suffer worst Christmas since 2014
Data from researchers Nielsen and Kantar shows Morrisons was worst performer
Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You reaches US No 1 after 25 years
Only Fairytale of New York matches 1994 song for longevity in Ireland’s top 50
Self-help guru Tony Robbins sues Buzzfeed in Irish courts
Lawyer for US-based Robbins dismisses ‘libel tourism’ claim over defamation action
Younger viewers are switching off TV
Linear viewing is losing out to Netflix and YouTube as a demographic comes of age
Young Irish viewers abandon television faster than expected
‘Considerably less TV’ now being watched by 15 to 24-year-olds as streaming services gain ground
Dutch F1 row shows gender equality has yet to cross finish line
Hague Letter: Call for return of glamorous ‘grid girls’ has led to backlash and climbdowns
Profit at ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’ author’s company reaches €15m
Fifty Shades Ltd recorded revenues of £15.4m in year to October last
How traditional bookshops survived the Amazon onslaught
Those who were caught in the rapids went under, the more nimble adapted
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