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A voluntary redundancy plan at RTÉ has been approved by the Government.

While the focus of attention on the latest tariff announcement from US President Donald Trump has been on car-manufacturing, his unambiguous confirmation of import taxes on pharmaceuticals are causing most concern for Ireland.

An equality hearing has been told that job cuts announced last year for multilingual support staff at TikTok's Irish office were driven by major advancements in artificial intelligence.

The US economy expanded at a slightly faster pace than estimated in the final three months last year, according to government data released today, but uncertainty over President Donald Trump's economic policies clouds the outlook.

Lingerie and adult sex toy and retailer Ann Summers last year sustained a £2.095m (€2.51m) loan impairment charge arising from expected reduced cash flows from its Irish operation in the future.

Britain's media and telecommunications regulator, Ofcom, has fined OnlyFans, an adults-only website and social media platform, 1.05 million pounds over failures to correctly disclose information related to measures to check age.

Hybrid workers take fewer sick days and are less stressed, new research shows.

A delegation of small-scale fishers from five EU member states met representatives the European Parliament and the European Commission gathered in Brussels this week to discuss fair access to fisheries and low impact fishing practices.

Britain's aviation watchdog will consider Heathrow airport's resilience rules as part of a regular review, it said today, following a closure last week that disrupted global flight schedules and stranded thousands of passengers.

Health workers at Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Drogheda are to engage in a one day strike next Thursday, 3 April in a dispute over staffing numbers.

Luxury skincare brand VOYA has been was named as the Overall National SFA Small Business Winner for 2025.

The High Court has been told the multi-million euro bitter legal dispute between the three shareholders of Web Summit has been settled.

Norway's central bank kept interest rates on hold at a 17-year high of 4.5% today, in line with most forecasts, as an unexpected resurgence of inflation led policymakers to postpone their previously stated plan for a cut.

European aviation CEOs said today that their sector risks falling behind its global competitors as well as miss EU green fuel targets as supplies remain too pricey.

Thousands of Irish people who worked in the UK and paid the equivalent of our social insurance, could be entitled to access a British pension. The deadline for applying for top up for as many as 18 past years and paying to avail of the scheme is 5th April 2025.

Ryanair has become the first European airline to carry 200 million passengers in a single calendar year.

US President Donald Trump has followed through on weeks of threats for new tariffs on imported cars, saying a 25% import tax on vehicles not built in the US would kick in next week.

Dublin drone delivery service Manna Air has announced a new $30m funding round, bringing its total equity funding to over $60m to scale its operations.

US President Donald Trump has said the US will be introducing tariffs on pharmaceuticals, specifically citing Ireland among the countries where many pharmaceutical products are made.

Worries about throttled global trade and a hit to car industry profits sent shares of car makers tumbling and drove markets broadly weaker today after President Donald Trump put a wall of tariffs around the US auto sector.