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The Department of Public Expenditure had to approve payment of €14,367 annual allowances for two senior state roles after separate recruitment campaigns failed to find a suitable candidate.

Senior officials in the Irish Prison Service who claimed they were being subjected to ageist discrimination because one of their colleagues was earning tens of thousands a year more for similar work have lost their claims at the Workplace Relations Commission.

AstraZeneca expects to boost 2024 revenue and profit on the back of its blockbuster cancer drugs, but lower than expected fourth-quarter profit dragged the London-listed drugmaker's shares down more than 5% today.

The Department of Public Expenditure had to approve payment of €14,367 annual allowances for two senior state roles after separate recruitment campaigns failed to find a suitable candidate.

Portuguese renewable energy company Greenvolt Group and Waterford-based Enerpower are set to create 100 new jobs.

The company that owns Tara Mines in Navan, Co Meath has said preliminary results indicate the facility incurred losses of €65m last year.

India's central bank kept interest rates unchanged for a sixth time in a row today, as both inflation and economic growth remain high in the world's fifth-largest economy.

The Glen Dimplex electrical group has announced a reorganisation plan for its operations across the island of Ireland, which will see up to 300 net redundancies between late 2024 and 2026 and the closure of two of its sites.

RTÉ Radio 1's 9am slot has taken a slight dip in its average ratings in the latest round of JNLR figures.

New figures from the Central Statistics Office show that on a county-by-county basis, Dublin had the highest level of disposable income per person at €27,958.

There is "an obligation" to make the plan around new traffic restrictions in Dublin city centre work, CEO of Dublin Town Richard Guiney has said.

There is "an obligation" to make the plan around new traffic restrictions in Dublin city centre work, CEO of Dublin Town Richard Guiney has said.

Boeing is "undoubtedly" making significant progress in getting on top of quality issues, the head of Avolon, the world's second largest aircraft leasing firm and a major Boeing customer, said today.

Primark plans to invest more than £100m in its UK stores this year, as it marks 50 years in the UK, while it also today announced the opening of a new distribution centre in Jacksonville in Florida as it continues its expansion across the US.

Chinese consumer prices fell in January at their quickest rate in more than 14 years, data showed today, as the country's leaders struggle to revive buying sentiment in the world's second-biggest economy.

The average quarterly rate of used car inflation slowed to 2.2% last year, the latest price index from car site DoneDeal shows.

Australians have welcomed new proposed laws that give workers the right to ignore calls and messages from their employers outside of work hours, but some business leaders slammed it as overreach.

An Post has launched a new national stamp which marks 50 years of Guaranteed Irish supporting Irish businesses.

PayPal's forecast of flat growth in adjusted profit for the current year overshadowed its market-beating earnings report, sending shares of the payments giant down 7% in extended trading.

Siemens has today reported first-quarter profit slightly ahead of expectations despite the German engineering group seeing a slowdown at its flagship factory automation unit.