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Audrey Cahill has been appointed the new Director General of the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC).

Concert tickets are affordable here and the biggest problem is hotels quadrupling their rates on the backs of concerts and sporting events.

Aer Lingus is to end its service between Dublin Airport and London's Gatwick Airport at the end of March.

Business leaders and financiers in Davos this week said they are preparing for "high for longer" borrowing costs, despite markets betting on large-scale interest rate cuts this year.

Plans for a significant cut to the rate of VAT on bicycles and electronic bikes were dropped at the last minute in the run-up to last year's budget.

A tribunal has thrown out claims of racist discrimination taken by a homeless academic with a "sense of entitlement" who took to bedding down in campus buildings at University College Dublin while he spent seven years working on his PhD.

AIB has announced a number of changes to its Executive Committee.

Business leaders in Davos say they are increasingly turning to scenario planning to safeguard supply chains and lessen the potential hit from unexpected geopolitical crises.

Irish businesses that are involved in exporting goods to or through the UK have been urged to ensure that they are fully prepared for Brexit-related import controls that are being introduced from January 31.

Germany is not the sick man of Europe, but a tired man in need of a "good cup of coffee" of structural reforms, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said today.

UK Housing Secretary Michael Gove has accused insulation company Kingspan of trying to "wriggle out of their responsibilities" in relation to the Grenfell Tower fire as he blamed the firm for giving capitalism "a bad name".

The boss of Bord Gáis Energy and British Gas's parent company has said there is "no point" trying to justify his £4.5m pay package, as he recognised that many of his customers were struggling to pay their bills.

The Board of Tirlán Co-operative Society Ltd has today named Seán Molloy as its CEO Designate.

The number of people believed to have received the Pandemic Unemployment Payment while they were working has "increased quite significantly" with the estimate more than doubling, the Department of Social Protection has said.

Some cruise operators have cancelled or adjusted their itineraries to avoid the Red Sea due to attacks on ships by Houthi militia, but the overall impact on the multi-billion dollar industry is not expected to be significant.

Andrew Forrest, a blunt Australian billionaire who made his fortune in iron ore mining, stood out among the heads of emissions-spewing industries at the meeting of global elites in Davos.

Tata Steel is expected to confirm plans to press ahead with plans to close both blast furnaces at its biggest UK plant, threatening more than 3,000 job losses.

German chemicals giant BASF has today posted a 45% drop in 2023 earnings, worse than both the market view and its own projections, adding to the challenges to be faced by its CEO-designate.

Saudi Arabia will host a special World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in April, economy minister Faisal Alibrahim said, as it aims to boost the global profile of the kingdom and its capital Riyadh.

LVMH veteran executive Michael Burke has been appointed chairman and chief executive of LVMH Fashion Group, overseeing the luxury goods group's fashion labels.