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Services sector growth hits 2025 high on new business

The country's services sector expanded at the fastest pace this year in October, a rapid rebound from two months earlier when growth almost flatlined, a survey showed today.

M&S said today it was confident it will be back on track by its financial year-end in March 2026

M&S first-half profit hammered by impact of cyber hack

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New action plan to strengthen collective bargaining

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe TD and John McCarthy, Chief Economist in the Department of Finance

Stark reality: future threatened by debt and ageing

Analysis and Comment

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Breaking EU countries agree deal on 2040 climate target

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Glanbia upgrades full year revenue guidance

Novo Nordisk said third-quarter sales rose 5% to 75 billion Danish crowns ($11.71 billion) - lower than expectations

Novo Nordisk lowers full-year profit guidance

Event to hear of human behaviour role on cybersecurity

Science and Technology

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Technology & Innovation

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Event to hear of human behaviour role on cybersecurity

Science and Technology

Palantir forecasts revenue above estimates on AI demand

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AWS announces new subsea cable connecting Ireland and US

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Spotify forecasts profit above estimates on user growth

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Why do some of us love AI, while others hate it?

Nintendo has sold 10.3 million Switch 2 units by the end of September

Nintendo hikes Switch 2 forecast to 19 million units

Nokia sues Warner Bros over video-streaming patents

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Work

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New action plan to strengthen collective bargaining

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Meat plant worker gets €20k for maternity discrimination

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Ex-Astronomy Ireland manager wins employment claim at WRC

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Sanmina to create 150 jobs at Co Cork facility

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Your Gen Z colleagues have the right idea about work-life balance

Work and careers

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Verizon staff used supplier account to pay for gifts: WRC

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300 jobs under threat at Fastway parent company

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US Tariffs

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Pandora cuts sales growth forecast as Europe slows

Pfizer raises profit forecast for second time in a row

Philips profit boosted by AI tools, tariff mitigation

The conservative-majority Supreme Court could find the tariffs illegal, blocking duties imposed on goods from countries worldwide or judges could open the door to further levies

US president's tariffs to face Supreme Court challenge

Canada cuts lending rate to 2.25%, tariff hit 'evident'

Adidas sales growth slows in North America as tariffs hit

Vans parent VF Corp beats quarterly estimates on demand

US President Donald Trump is greeted by Japanese Emperor Naruhito at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo, Japan

Trump meets emperor after arriving in Japan

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney

Canada ready to resume trade talks with US - Carney

a blue Volvo vehicle parked in front of a Volvo showroom

Volvo Cars smashes profit forecasts as cost cuts deliver

Recent company results are easing investor concerns over the toll of US President Donald Trump's import tariffs

Early Q3 earnings reveal businesses adapting to tariffs

Hasbro boosts annual forecasts on digital gaming demand

Analysis & Comment

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Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe TD and John McCarthy, Chief Economist in the Department of Finance

Stark reality: future threatened by debt and ageing

Analysis and Comment

Partial view of one of the entrances at the City Park of the COP30,

Hopes COP30 can build on slow climate target progress

Analysis and Comment

Wilbur Ross speaking at UCD

Why damage from US tariffs may not be as bad as feared

Analysis and Comment

General view of a branch of PTSB in Finglas, Dublin

What does the sale of PTSB mean for consumers?

Analysis and Comment

US President Donald Trump, wearing a white shirt, red tie and dark suit, shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping, who is wearing a white shirt, navy tie and navy suit. The background is dark.

What now for China-US trade tensions?

Analysis and Comment

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The Business of Climate

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Partial view of one of the entrances at the City Park of the COP30,

Hopes COP30 can build on slow climate target progress

Analysis and Comment

A view of the outside of a building

Breaking EU countries agree deal on 2040 climate target

Solar panels on the roof of a Sydney suburban home

Australia to offer households hours of free solar power

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Bank of Ireland raises €750m from green bond sale

Four European flags fluttering against the Berlaymont building, headquarters of the European Commission in Brussels

EU ministers yet to agree 2040 target for emissions cuts

A worker looks at a row of machinery in a hydrogen power plant

Denmark inaugurates rare low-carbon hydrogen plant

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Physical inactivity costing €1.1bn a year in healthcare

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Your money

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Are you really more likely to get divorced than switch banks?

An image of Paschal Donohoe sitting down at a press conference

Ireland faces falling tax revenues as population ages

Ex-Central Bank boss criticises banks on tracker scandal

It is the single biggest consumer overcharging scandal in the history of the State

Effects of tracker mortgage scandal 'far from over'

Vehicles on a road with a sign overhead for Dublin Port Tunnel toll plaza

Toll hikes for some motorways, Port Tunnel from January

Fuel and home-charging EV costs rise in October

A total of 12,570 mortgages were drawn down between July and September, valued at €3.974 billion, in the third quarter of this year

Mortgage drawdowns hit almost €4 billion in Q3 - BPFI

AIB's Managing Director of Retail Banking Geraldine Casey said the rate cuts announced today 'could benefit tens of thousands of customers by saving them money each month'

AIB Group cuts non-green fixed mortgage interest rates

Ibec urges vigilance over reliance on corporation tax

New mortgage product launched by credit unions

The total value of fraudulent payments in Ireland increased to €160m in 2024 - up nearly 25% from the previous year - the Central Bank's Payment Fraud Statistics for 2024 show

40% rise in fraudulent payments in Ireland - Central Bank

Inflation and savings - what you need to know

Business Brainstorm

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Why do some of us love AI, while others hate it?

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Are you really more likely to get divorced than switch banks?

Why charging your car is still a massive problem for EV owners

Westlife, dressed in black, posing against a plain backdrop.

What would Westlife do? How to build a business the boyband way

Your Gen Z colleagues have the right idea about work-life balance

Work and careers

What do you get in return for paying the local property tax?

Local Property Tax

US President Donald Trump speaks to Malaysia's prime ministe at Kuala Lumpur International Airport.

Who writes the rules in today's changing world?

People walking on the treelined path in Phoenix park, Dublin on an autumn day with selective focus, and sun shining

All you need to know about bank holidays in Ireland

Three male employees in a glass office building

Are 'quiet redundancies' happening in your workplace?

Work and careers

A one kilogram gold bar and a five hundred gram gold bar at The Vaults Group gold dealers arranged in Barcelona, Spain, on Monday, April 28, 2025. Gold was steady after dropping Tuesday as President Donald Trump eased the impact of some auto tariffs and p

Is gold or bitcoin the better investment?

BNM peat briquette sprayed gold, in the ‘Museum of Broken Things’ – Cavan County Museum, photographed by Marion McGarry 2025

How Bord na Móna peat briquette became an icon of Irish design

How workplace bullying can affect your personality

Work and careers

Business Watch and Listen

The nitrates derogation would allow Irish farmers some relief from the strict EU rules aimed at protecting watercourses from agricultural pollution caused by fertiliser and animal waste

Reaching 'endgame' on renewal of EU nitrates derogation

Home rebuild costs up by 7% in past year - SCSI

Quicker Boeing deliveries help Ryanair boost H1 profits

State-controlled PTSB puts itself up for sale

Irish VC activity stable in Q3 - KPMG report

Wilbur Ross looks up at someone at an author event

Buy LNG from US, ex-Commerce Secretary tells Donohoe

300 jobs under threat at Fastway parent company

After eight rate cuts since mid-2024, the ECB is widely expected to hold interest rates steady at 2% for a third consecutive meeting

Fed and ECB rate decisions to be announced this week

Bank of Ireland upgrades Irish economic forecast

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Louth apple growers bet big on domestic market

Wholesale energy prices are down, why not retail prices?

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Economy to grow faster than expected this year - Goodbody

Agribusiness

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ILIMEX Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Gerry Corrigan

ILIMEX plans to expand into the agri-food sector

The nitrates derogation would allow Irish farmers some relief from the strict EU rules aimed at protecting watercourses from agricultural pollution caused by fertiliser and animal waste

Reaching 'endgame' on renewal of EU nitrates derogation

A herd of Holstein cows grazing on a summer afternoon in Northern Ireland

Farmers concerns raised at nitrates derogation meeting

Profits double at Glenilen Farms as revenues hit €12m

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Louth apple growers bet big on domestic market

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New Zealand's Alliance group vote for Dawn Meats deal

Fertiliser maker Yara reports Q3 core profit beat

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'Stressful time' for poultry farmer near Fota park

Public consultation on Carbon Farming Framework launched

EU to pay over €0.5 billion to 110,499 farmers nationwide

Rear view shot of a female customer looking and choosing fresh bottled milk while standing in front of a display fridge full of diary products in supermarket.

What Lidl's milk price cut tells us about supermarket price wars

Farmers have 'nothing to fear' over Mercosur deal - Hogan

Startup Nation

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O'Sullivan winner of EI's Founder of the Year award

Four women pose in a garden holdig signs to encourage female entrepreneurship

Going for Growth's 18th programme for women entrepreneurs

Meta-Flux co-founders Lee Sherlock (CEO) and Brendan Martin (CTO) at Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute (TBSI) in Dublin, with an 800 MHz NMR spectrometer.

Irish start-up raises €1.8m to develop 'AI biologist'

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Start-Ups success on South Dublin New Frontiers Programme

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Three Start-ups Join ESA BIC Ireland at NovaUCD