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Understanding air quality in your home can save you money, future-proof your building and improve your family's health

Chinese officials are in preliminary talks about a potential option to sell TikTok's operations in the US to billionaire Elon Musk, should the short-video app be unable to avoid an impending ban, Bloomberg News has reported.

For the fourth year in a row, An Post has reported a zero gender pay gap.

Homeowners could be paying as much as €10,000 more for their home insurance over the lifetime of their mortgage because of where they live, according to Peopl Insurance.

The body which resolves personal injury claims says there has been a 40% drop in public liability claims between 2019 and 2023.

A total of 3.1 million passengers flew to and from Cork Airport last year, one of the busiest years in the airport's 63-year history.

Susan Russell, chief executive of the Retail Ireland division of Bank of Ireland Group, has been named as the new President of Banking & Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI).

An environmental campaign group has said expanding capacity at EU airports is incompatible with climate targets.

Avant Money has informed its customers that it has begun the process of becoming the Irish branch of Spanish lender Bankinter.

SIPTU has warned that there has been a marked increase in assaults on Dublin City Council workers.

Smartphone shipments for Apple and Samsung declined in the fourth quarter globally, as they grapple with intense competition from Chinese companies including Xiaomi, according to preliminary data from the International Data Corporation (IDC).

Pre-tax profits at the Irish unit of health and wellness retailer Holland & Barrett increased by 13% to €4.22m in 2023.

Ecologists employed by a John Magnier Coolmore Stud firm are to install a number of 'insect hotels' on the site of a planned large scale solar farm in south Tipperary.

Oil prices climbed about 2% to a four-month high today on expectations that wider US sanctions on Russian oil would force buyers in India and China to seek other suppliers.

A judge has directed that the owner of a Shannon based Halal meat plant operator, Asba Meats attend court in relation to an unpaid debt of €16,931 to another meat firm.

Britain's finance minister Rachel Reeves and Prime Minister Keir Starmer are seeking to stem a market slump, but for now what happens next to rising government borrowing costs and the falling pound is largely beyond their control.

Business executives are increasingly the targets of threats and even violence, which means corporate security is a thriving industry

AerCap, the world's largest aircraft leasing company, said today that potential new trade tariffs floated by US President-elect Donald Trump could hit supply chains and hinder planemaker Boeing's efforts to restore much-needed cash.

Germany's top-end carmakers took a battering at home and in China in 2024, sales volume data showed, as wealthier consumers held back on purchases amid an uncertain economy and on slower than expected electric vehicle sales.

Jeff Bezos does not think SpaceX CEO Elon Musk will use his close ties with US President-elect Donald Trump to undercut Bezos' rival space company Blue Origin, and was "very optimistic" about the incoming administration's space agenda.