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The Central Bank has published a new consumer protection code aimed at modernising the set of rules that businesses must abide by when dealing with consumers.

Activity across the UK's private sector has grown at the fastest rate for six months after strong trading in the service industry, according to new data.

The shut-down of Heathrow Airport last week is a reminder to companies that they need to expect the unexpected and prepare accordingly.

The High Court has ruled that a report error concerning a bat located in a barn outside Ennis is not sufficient to halt contentious plans for a new 200MW €1.2 billion data centre campus.

Euro zone business growth remained weak in March despite expanding at its fastest pace in seven months supported by an easing in the long-running manufacturing downturn but held back by slower growth in services, a survey showed.

The case for another European Central Bank interest rate cut is strengthening, ECB board member Piero Cipollone said today, just days after another prominent policy dove made a similar argument.

Genetic testing firm 23andMe said it has filed for filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US to help the $50m company sell itself and that co-founder and CEO Anne Wojcicki had resigned after multiple failed takeover bids.

Former taoiseach Leo Varadkar is to take up an advisory role with US-based public relations firm Penta Group, which bought Irish PR firm Hume Brophy in 2022.

Britain will stick to its fiscal rules despite global upheaval, finance minister Rachel Reeves said over the weekend, raising the prospect of thousands of public sector job cuts in this week's budget update which is likely to include further savings.

Klarna's upcoming US initial public offering could help unlock a pipeline of British fintech flotations after a barren period for new technology listings, investors, lawyers and an executive told Reuters.

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Japan's factory activity fell at the fastest pace in a year in March, dragged by declines in production and new orders in a worrying sign for the economy, a private-sector survey showed today.

Bayer has been ordered by a jury in the US state of Georgia to pay about $2.1 billion to a plaintiff who claimed the company's Roundup weed killer caused his cancer, the plaintiff's law firms has said.

A new €1.6 million fund has been launched to tackle disparities in opportunity and access to employment for marginalised young adults.

Irish Medtech, the Ibec group representing the medical technology sector, has released its latest manufacturing report, calling for greater investment in advanced manufacturing and digital technologies.

Minister for Housing James Browne has said the financial market for building apartments in Dublin is broken and the tax regime needs to be examined to stimulate development.

A group of long-term food traders in west Cork are pondering their future after being told they must pack up and leave.

The Minister for Finance has said tens of thousands of jobs in Ireland could be at risk if US trade tariffs are introduced in early April.

"It's never too young to start" - that's the advice from the CEO of the Irish League of Credit Unions David Malone when it comes to learning about the value of money.

Ireland's wealth has always been tied up in the sea. From Roman coins brought here by traders from Britain, to the Vikings who sailed up Irish rivers and began to mint the first silver pennies, to the undersea cables which pour data in and out of the country today.