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Revolut eyes slice of the Irish mortgage market
The Irish arm of pharma firm, Takeda last year took a profit hit after mothballing fresh manufacturing capacity at its Grange ...
‘Impossible’ to achieve a net-zero economy by 2050 and transition to clean energy could push up electricity prices
Separate reports in the past week have poured scorn on talk of the State becoming the ‘Saudi Arabia of wind’ and challenge ...
Squirrels are now so brazen, they come right up to the window and force eye contact
These creatures have made a laughing stock of me. There’s an army of them working shifts, and I’m not the only local feeding ...
Airbnb not to blame for State’s rental crisis, report finds
The rise in short-term lettings through Airbnb and other platforms is not the primary cause of Ireland’s rental crisis, a new ...
Dublin Marathon contributes €63m to local economy, report finds
Dublin ranks 19th among top 50 marathons globally, with Chicago topping list in terms of economic contribution, according to ...
Plans unveiled for State’s first ice hockey franchise
Plans have been unveiled for a winter sports and entertainment arena in Dublin, which aims to house the State’s first ...
More than €10m of Irish State funds are invested in Israeli companies with links to occupied territories
Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe discloses that direct investment by the State in business with direct links to illegal ...
‘It was devastating. My kids were crying’: Families react to housing department’s decision on 1930s flats regeneration
Number of homes in Dublin’s Pearse House would have been reduced to give residents more space but department has refused to ...
The hurt that dripped from Michael O’Brien and others has to be part of Pope Francis’s legacy
The personal experience he vividly outlined on RTÉ television in 2009 was part of the reason Francis’s visit to Ireland nine ...
Brace yourself as the world’s leaders make a holy show of themselves at the Pope’s funeral
They will not be disappointed for there will be VIPs galore willing, in the immortal words of Verona Murphy, to “make a holy ...
Cork Con’s Jack Kelleher: ‘Back-to-back win wouldn’t even be a thought in our heads’
Reaching the AIL final for the fifth time in seven editions is one thing, but winning two in a row, as Con will attempt on ...
Micheál Martin would be a more credible leader of Fine Gael than Simon Harris and that’s a problem
It’s a sign of Fine Gael’s watered-down identity that it’s easy to imagine Harris in Labour or the Social Democrats ...