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  • food and drink

Love Irish Food has to stop 'misleading' ads that say its brands use Irish ingredients

It followed a complaint over salmon from Scotland that bore the group’s logo.

  • 3 min read
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'While everyone was going to Pope John Paul in Phoenix Park, we were making money'

As part of our How My Business Works series, we profile newspaper distributor Newspread.

  • 7 min read
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  • Financial Services

Bank of Ireland has poached a senior UK exec for its new CEO

HSBC’s Francesca McDonagh will be the pillar bank’s first female chief.

  • 3 min read
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  • Work

Store ordered to pay €7,500 after video of a disabled worker shared for 'merriment'

The Mr Price sales assistant’s brain injury was sustained in a road accident.

  • 4 min read
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EU waste rules now cover anything with a plug or battery. Here's what companies need to know

Elizabeth O'Reilly

Elizabeth O'Reilly

WEEE Ireland

The so-called WEEE directive is great for the environment, but firms across Ireland have to comply.

  • 5 min read
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Farmers who started 'illegal' gorse fires may have their state subsidies docked

A recent spate of gorse fires have caused havoc in rural areas around the country.

  • 3 min read
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A long-awaited tax break to kick-start investment in young firms has finally been introduced

Axing stamp duty for shares on Ireland’s junior stock market was first mooted in late 2013.

  • 2 min read
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  • Financial Services

Scottish financial giant Standard Life says Dublin will likely be its new EU base

The company wants to keep access to the single market after Brexit.

  • 3 min read
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  • Financial Services

For the second time in a week, gardaí are investigating fraud at a Cork credit union

One staff member at Gurranabraher Credit Union has been sacked over €200,000 in ‘irregularities’.

  • 2 min read
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  • building and property

Ireland's largest private landlord is appealing 'exaggerated claims' against a Sandyford project

Ires Reit had hoped to build more than 460 apartments at the partially developed Rockbrook site.

  • 3 min read
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'I sold over £100m worth of property in 2006. Then MS wiped me out for four years'

Conor Devine

Conor Devine

Co-founder, GDP Partnership

This former estate agent battled multiple sclerosis but went on to set up two new companies.

  • 6 min read
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Retailers want parents who use children for shoplifting to be prosecuted

Stores are reporting more and more of the ‘orchestrated’ thefts.

  • 2 min read
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  • Financial Services

Stripe's Patrick Collison: 'We want to be an independent company for a long time'

The Limerick man said the payments provider wants to help young companies scale faster.

  • 3 min read
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  • building and property
  • resource and energy

An Irish firm's €2bn offshore wind farm is clear to build after a major legal win

Eddie O’Connor’s Dublin-based Mainstream is leading development of the Scottish project.

  • 2 min read
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  • building and property

Dublin is one of the 10 most expensive cities worldwide in which to build

A new study found building costs are higher in the Irish capital than in Paris or Madrid.

  • 3 min read
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A European court ruling paves the way for a bruising Brexit

The decision means all EU states and regional authorities have to clear any trade deal.

  • 2 min read
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EU investigates if one company hiked cancer drug prices 'several hundred percent'

Aspen Pharma may have increased the costs of ‘irreplaceable’ treatments by up to 1,500%.

  • 2 min read
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  • Opinion

Poll: Would you pay a 'ransomware' demand?

Victims in the WannaCry attack were told to hand over up to $600 to regain access to computer files.

  • 2 min read
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Why everyone's talking about WannaCry - and how to protect your business

Hugh Callaghan

Hugh Callaghan

Cyber security leader, EY Ireland

More than 200,000 victims worldwide have been hit in the unprecedented cyber-attack.

  • 5 min read
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Upping eurozone exports is 'not an optional extra' for firms as Brexit looms

Enterprise Ireland wants to increase exports to the region by 50% in three years.

  • 3 min read
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