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Hotel sales in Ireland are booming, with deals this year expected to top the €1 billion mark for the first time in almost a decade.

Three days before the General Election was called Green Party leader Roderic O'Gorman pushed hard at a Cabinet meeting to get Government agreement on spending for the Climate, Nature and Infrastructure Fund.

Keeping the rise in global temperatures below 1.5C is becoming increasingly difficult to achieve. There is a rising sense of panic among the most senior, and most influential, United Nations advisers about it.

Keeping the rise in global temperatures below 1.5 degrees is becoming increasingly difficult to achieve. There is a rising sense of panic among the most senior, and most influential, United Nations advisers about it.

When EU officials travelled to Washington recently, the US Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell showed them a chart showing American productivity over a 40-year period compared to European productivity.

Irish firms are feeling the pressure of increased labour, supply and energy costs, and the upcoming auto enrolment for pensions for employees. With the election just two weeks away some business owners from around the country have been sharing with RTE News what they want from a new Government

It has been a good week for Elon Musk.

Ryanair has confirmed the flights of a small number of passengers were cancelled by a technical issue before being reinstated.

Gardaí have arrested two men as part of an ongoing investigation into suspected insider trading.

An IT manager fired shortly before the arrest of his former boss in connection with Ireland's largest-ever seizure of crystal meth has won nearly €78,000 for unfair dismissal and employment rights breaches.

Oil prices edged lower today, heading for a weekly loss, as investors digested waning Chinese demand and a possible slowing of the US Federal Reserve's interest rate cut path.

A civilian driver for An Garda Siochána who was made retire at 70 has won the right to stay at work for another three years after a tribunal found he faced falling into poverty because his pension is so small.

One third of social media users have been targeted by a fraudulent advert, new research shows.

Unilever is cutting about 1,500 fewer jobs in Europe than initially anticipated and hiring about 1,000 people, primarily those affected by its cost-cutting drive, for its soon-to-be spun off ice cream business, the head of the company's European Works Council has said.

NovaUCD-headquartered Binarii Labs, a data security solutions company, has announced new distribution channel partnerships across the US, Europe, and Asia in advance of attending Slush 2024 next week in Finland.

Ongoing economic growth, a solid job market, and inflation that remains above its 2% target mean the Federal Reserve does not need to rush to lower interest rates, Fed Chair Jerome Powell said last night.

New Central Statistics Office figures show that Irish exports rose by 23% to hit a new monthly record high of €22.2 billion in September.

Ireland's GDP is expected to decline by 0.5% in 2024, mainly due to a contraction in the multinational sector in the first half of the year, the European Commission's Autumn 2024 Economic Forecast has predicted.

Oil and gas majors TotalEnergies, BP, Shell and Equinor have pledged to invest $500m to increase access to affordable energy, primarily in sub-Saharan Africa, south and southeast Asia.

The latest AA Ireland Fuel Survey reveals a slight increase in petrol and diesel prices for November after three months of fuel price decreases in a row.