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Irish waste and recycling solutions company Turmec has secured a €6.2m contract in New Zealand.

Oil prices jumped more than $4 a barrel today, hitting their highest price in almost five months after Israel struck Iran, dramatically escalating tensions in the Middle East and raising worries about disrupted oil supplies.

The German economy is expected to grow by 0.3% this year following two consecutive years of contraction, the economic institute DIW Berlin said today, the fifth institute to raise its forecasts for 2025 and 2026.

Ryanair chief executive, Michael O'Leary has stated that the airline's home market in Dublin is being hampered "by failed regulation and political inaction".

As broadcaster Joe Duffy prepares to retire from Liveline on RTÉ Radio 1 on Friday 27 June, RTÉ has announced it is running an open internal and external 'expressions of interest' process for interested potential on-air presenters across RTÉ Radio 1 and News and Current Affairs.

Mattel has teamed up with OpenAI to develop toys and games with artificial intelligence, and expects to launch its first AI-powered product later this year, the Barbie-maker said today.

More than three out of every four staff at the National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) earned over €100,000 last year.

Fixed broadband subcriber lines increased to 1.7 million between January and March, up 2.7% on the same time last year.

China is ready to strengthen cooperation with the European Central Bank, including on reforming the international monetary system, Premier Li Qiang told ECB President Christine Lagarde at a meeting in Beijing today.

Amazon has asked Europe's second-highest court to scrap its designation as a platform subject to stricter requirements under landmark EU online content rules, arguing that it poses no systematic risks to its users.

The number of Americans filing new applications for unemployment benefits was unchanged at higher levels last week as labour market conditions continued to steadily ease.

New figures from the Central Statistics Office show that households saved 14% of their income in the first three months of this year.

Oil prices edged lower today, as traders assessed whether the previous day's jump to the highest prices in more than two months had adequately priced in risks for crude oil supply from mounting tensions in the Middle East.

Shares of planemaker Boeing fell nearly 8% in premarket US trading today after an Air India aircraft with 242 people crashed minutes after taking off from India's western city of Ahmedabad.

The annual Bilderberg Meeting kicks off in Sweden today, providing a private forum for discussion at a time when US President Donald Trump has upended security and economic ties between the US and Europe.

Construction on Leinster House's controversial €336,000 bicycle shelter had to be halted after a large manhole was "discovered" on site that was not spotted when drawing up site plans.

The number of homes approved for planning permission fell by 2.5% in the first three months of this year compared to the same period in 2024, according to the Central Statistics Office.

New figures from the Central Statistics Office show that the annual rate of inflation slowed to 1.7% in May from a rate of 2.2% in April.

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) has fined the Department of Social Protection (DSP) €550,000 for breaches of privacy rules relating to the use of facial recognition technology in the registration process for the Public Services Card.

Airbus is "cautiously hopeful" that it can meet a 2025 target of 820 deliveries despite bottlenecks that have left nearly 40 completed airframes parked at its factories waiting for engines, the CEO of its core planemaking business said.