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Government is considering "enhancing" existing laws to increase fines and make the State's consumer watchdog more "robust" in a bid to address alleged "price gouging" by supermarkets.

Local authorities are working in a "vacuum" due to regulatory gaps in laws that govern commercial drones, an Oireachtas committee has been told.

The Irish Hotels Federation is appealing to the government to tackle what it describes as "unsustainable increases" in the cost of doing business.

Take up in the Dublin office market reached 60,240 sq m between April and June - the strongest quarter since the same period last year.

A controversial proposed 16.7% increase in personal injury awards will not go ahead.

The first premises on Achill Island have now been connected to high-speed fibre broadband.

Irish mortgage interest rates fell to their lowest rate in over two years in May, according to new figures from the Central Bank.

Higher milk prices, rising livestock and crop values, as well as a fall in the cost of fertiliser, saw agricultural entrepreneurial income increase by 73% last year - from €1.5 billion to €3.5 billion.

Grok has removed what it called "inappropriate" social media posts after complaints from X users and the Anti-Defamation League that Grok produced content with anti-Semitism tropes.

German supermarket chain Lidl faces a €43 million payout to a French rival after an appeals court ruled its ads to be deceptive.

US drugmaker Merck is nearing a deal worth about $10 billion to buy Verona Pharma, a company focused on therapies for lung diseases, the Financial Times reported today.

Plans are to be lodged in the coming days for a €1 billion data centre campus and solar farm on a 600 acre site in Co Westmeath.

Ad group WPP has today cut its annual profit guidance after clients cut spending in June, raising concerns about the group's ability to deal with the technological change driven by AI at a time of intensifying economic uncertainty.

UK low-cost airline and travel firm Jet2 said it was premature to give a forecast for fiscal year 2026 as later bookings and global uncertainty clouded visibility into future business, sending shares sharply lower today.

Seven UK housing developers have agreed to pay a total of £100m to affordable housing programmes in Britain following a competition watchdog investigation into potentially anticompetitive behaviour.

The European Union is working closely with US President Donald Trump's administration to reach a trade deal, but Brussels is getting ready for all scenarios, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has said.

The consumer watchdog has cleared Circle K's proposed acquisition of eight Texaco-branded service stations in Dublin and Meath.

Homebuilder Cairn Homes said it remains confident in its full year guidance and said it welcomed the Government's announcement yesterday of amendments to apartment design guidelines.

Consumer prices in China rose slightly in June, official data showed today, snapping a four-month decline even as factory gate prices were bruised by a fierce trade war with Washington.

The outlook for European corporate health has deteriorated, the latest earnings forecasts show, as uncertainties over US tariffs continue to complicate business planning.