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New data shows that instrumentation engineers, ad reviewers, and mechanical and electrical project managers are the most difficult jobs to fill.

New data shows that instrumentation engineers, ad reviewers, and mechanical and electrical project managers are the most difficult jobs to fill.

The new media regulator Coimisiún na Meán is facing its first big legal test as Reddit, one of the ten video-sharing platforms which will be covered by its new Online Safety Code, commenced legal action against the regulator.

RTÉ's Southern Editor Paschal Sheehy looks at why so many restaurants are closing and if measures to extend the deadline for payment of warehoused tax debts will be enough to save those still open.

It's peak renewal season for health insurance. Following a raft of policy price increases in 2023 on the back of medical cost inflation, there is no let up in sight with more premium increases expected across the market in the weeks and months ahead.

Minister for Finance Michael McGrath is to bring legislative proposals to Cabinet next week to ensure there is no further decline in the numbers of ATM's for people to access cash in towns and villages around the country.

2023 saw record sales of electric vehicles, with deals up 45% on 2022. But there are signs that demand may be stalling. So what is happening in the EV market, asks Business Editor, Will Goodbody.

Google has begun a High Court action against the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC).

Audrey Cahill has been appointed the new Director General of the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC).

Concert tickets are affordable here and the biggest problem is hotels quadrupling their rates on the backs of concerts and sporting events.

Aer Lingus is to end its service between Dublin Airport and London's Gatwick Airport at the end of March.

Business leaders and financiers in Davos this week said they are preparing for "high for longer" borrowing costs, despite markets betting on large-scale interest rate cuts this year.

Plans for a significant cut to the rate of VAT on bicycles and electronic bikes were dropped at the last minute in the run-up to last year's budget.

A tribunal has thrown out claims of racist discrimination taken by a homeless academic with a "sense of entitlement" who took to bedding down in campus buildings at University College Dublin while he spent seven years working on his PhD.

AIB has announced a number of changes to its Executive Committee.

Business leaders in Davos say they are increasingly turning to scenario planning to safeguard supply chains and lessen the potential hit from unexpected geopolitical crises.

Irish businesses that are involved in exporting goods to or through the UK have been urged to ensure that they are fully prepared for Brexit-related import controls that are being introduced from January 31.

Germany is not the sick man of Europe, but a tired man in need of a "good cup of coffee" of structural reforms, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said today.

UK Housing Secretary Michael Gove has accused insulation company Kingspan of trying to "wriggle out of their responsibilities" in relation to the Grenfell Tower fire as he blamed the firm for giving capitalism "a bad name".

The boss of Bord Gáis Energy and British Gas's parent company has said there is "no point" trying to justify his £4.5m pay package, as he recognised that many of his customers were struggling to pay their bills.