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Leitrim was the county with the highest rate of volunteers (18%) on Census night in April 2022.

The State's new auto-enrolment pension scheme will be delivered in 2024 with the first enrolments expected by the end of this year, the Minister for Social Protection has pledged.

The downturn in euro zone factory activity eased for a third month in January but could stretch through this quarter, according to a survey today that showed a majority of sub-indices remained within the contraction zone.

The Government will today launch a pilot programme of new connected vehicle technology designed to increase road safety, which will allow vehicles to 'talk' to each other to share safety-related alerts.

Euro zone inflation eased as expected last month but underlying price pressures fell less than forecast, likely boosting the European Central Bank's argument that rate cuts should not be rushed, even if the next move is still going to be policy easing.

A new report on the insurance sector has revealed diversity gaps at management levels.

Sweden's central bank kept its key interest rate unchanged at 4% today as expected but said that if inflation continued to slow it might be able to bring forward the timing of a first rate cut, possibly even to the first half of 2024.

Staff in RTÉ are "disturbed and outraged" after the report into RTÉ's voluntary exit programmes, the chair of the National Union of Journalists Dublin Broadcasting Branch has said.

The Conditions of Employment Act 1936 was one of several ways women faced discrimination and segregation in the workplace for decades

Roche has today forecast a pick up in sales growth this year as it overcomes a slump in demand for its Covid-19 products and a decline in sales of a trio of established cancer drugs abates.

ING Group, the largest Dutch bank by assets, has today forecast lower total income for 2024 after missing net interest income estimates in the fourth quarter, and with the European Central Bank expected to start cutting interest rates later this year.

Irn-Bru maker AG Barr said today it has appointed former Saga boss Euan Sutherland, a veteran in the consumer goods industry, as its next chief executive officer, effective from May 1.

Smurfit Kappa is to invest €54m to double the capacity of its Ibi Bag-in-Box plant in Alicante in Spain.

BT, the UK's biggest broadband and mobile operator, said it was on track to grow revenue and profit this year after reporting a better-than-expected 3% rise in third-quarter revenue and a broadly in-line 1% rise in core earnings.

Adidas shares fell today after the sportswear maker delivered a forecast for 2024 well below analysts' expectations, based on limited profits from selling off its last stocks of Yeezy shoes after its break-up with Kanye West.

Farmers and Irish Farmers Association members along with their tractors and machinery are to hold a series of nationwide demonstrations this evening in solidarity with protesting EU farmers.

Shell has today reported a 2023 profit of $28 billion, down 30% from the previous year's record as oil and gas prices cooled, still allowing the firm to increase its dividend by 4% and extend its share repurchases.

Deutsche Bank said today it would cut 3,500 jobs, buy back shares and pay dividends, after posting a 30% drop in fourth-quarter profit.

Businesses are being urged to play their part in making a positive impact around social issues of housing, migration, diversity and inclusion, and equality.

The US Federal Reserve last night voted to leave interest rates unchanged for the fourth meeting in a row, while indicating it was moving toward future cuts - but probably not before May at the earliest.