RTE Business

Britain is on course to exit its shallow recession after economic output grew for a second month in a row in February and January's reading was revised higher, official data showed today.

Bus Éireann will introduce its first electric regional city bus fleet in Limerick later today, as part of a €54m investment by the National Transport Authority.

Event production agency AVCOM has secured a new €7.5 million deal with Croke Park Meetings & Events to provide production services.

IDA Ireland has said that an AI-enabled workforce is critical to transforming Ireland's enterprise base and supporting future investment in the country.

Mushroom, vegetable and fruit growers dependent on third country workers have said they are being hit with unsustainable wage costs after the Government increased mandatory wage rates.

The High Court has appointed a Provisional liquidator to a company set up to acquire and develop a Co Wicklow property into a care facility/nursing home.

A nurse who said she was denied a permanent contract because she was pregnant has won over €56,000 for maternity discrimination after her former employer and its lawyers abandoned a maternity rights hearing over how the name of the firm was filled out on the complaint form.

The personal data of thousands of taxi app users in Ireland and the UK was found in a non-password-protected database.

There are indications that the Government will postpone the planned constitutional referendum on the Unified Patent Court planned for June.

Businesses are being encouraged to prepare for the 10th annual National Workplace Wellbeing Day which takes place on Friday 26 April.

A care home nurse who was cornered in a room by a dementia patient "touching himself" and was racially abused by another patient who she said was in the habit of becoming drunk and "aggressive" has won €30,000 in compensation.

New research shows that 28% of IT decision-makers in Ireland changed job last year, with just over a third planning to do so within the next one to two years.

Revolut has said its app for young people aged 6-17 years now has over 2m customers worldwide.

New figures from the Central Statistics Office show that households saved 12.09% of their income in the last quarter of 2023 - and 12.4% in 2023 as a whole.

We know each of Ireland's 82 data centres uses the same amount of electricity as a city like Kilkenny, but what are they actually doing?

Dublin headquartered data centre builder Winthrop Technologies has today announced a a strategic partnership with funds managed by Blackstone Tactical Opportunities and affiliated funds.

New figures from the Central Statistics Office show that the annual rate of inflation slowed to 2.9% in March, down from a rate of 3.4% in February.

Irish-owned global packaging solutions company Zeus has agreed a deal to buy the Weedon Group, one of the UK's largest independent integrated corrugated manufacturers, for an undisclosed sum.

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, is testing new tools to help protect young users from sextortion and other forms of intimate image abuse.

Europe's export-oriented small businesses should be offered a single regulatory framework with the same rules governing their activities wherever they operate in the region, a report to be presented to national leaders next week will propose.