Seizures of fake medication claiming to contain semaglutide, also found in Ozempic and Wegovy, have shot up in Ireland from 32 units last year to 254 so far this year. more

Hospital campaigner Marie McMahon has warned that people in the midwest are terrified of having to go to the emergency department in University Hospital Limerick (UHL). more

Women earned almost €3 per hour or 9.6pc less than men on average in 2022, the Central Statistics Office has found. more

Grocery price inflation has declined again but prices are continuing to rise for consumers. A survey of over 30,000 products in Irish supermarkets by research group Kantar revealed that shoppers paid 10.5pc more for these goods in the 12 weeks to October 1 compared with the same period in 2022.more

Takeaway pizza giant Domino’s is launching a recruitment drive to hire 600 roles across its business ahead of the busy festive season. more

Polish citizens voting in the Polish Sejm elections in Ireland cast the most votes for the Civic Coalition, followed by the New Left and Law and Justice, according to results released Monday night into Tuesday by the National Election Commission.more

Swedish interiors giant Ikea is to pay its Irish workers a €14.80 per hour ‘living wage’ from January and offer more flexible hours for exams or other life events. more

Centra has launched a new delivery service across five of its Dublin stores. The trial service, which will be known as ‘Centra Go’, will offer delivery for around 1,000 products, including grocery and household items.more

An Irish business owner has admitted he is concerned that wage inflation could hit his growth and expansion plans over the coming years. Velo Coffee founder, Rob Horgan, said that while he welcomed many of the measures announced in the Budget to tackle the cost-of-living crisis, he was very worried about the potential impact of wage inflation on small and medium-sized Irish businesses over the comore

A new living wage of €14.80 an hour will be announced today. This is the minimum rate required for a full-time worker without dependents to afford goods and services. Cost-of-living pressures have led to an increase of 95c or almost 7pc on last year’s rate of €13.85 an hour.more

Ireland is one of 10 EU countries to see the average price of farm products drop in the last year, a hint that food prices are set to come down even more in future. Irish prices fell by 8.5pc between March and June this year, compared with the same period in 2022. more

A good job in the civil service is more appealing to Irish people as tech roles fall out of favour and workers seek more security. more

A cargo of 2,253 kg of cocaine with a market value of EUR 157 million was seized by the Irish army during the landing of a Panama-flagged ship on Tuesday. Police said yesterday that it was the largest drug seizure in Irish history.more

Tesco’s Irish arm made a €120.3m operating profit in its last financial year, according to accounts filed here for the first time ever by the division. more

A new report by online bank Revolut shows that consumers on the Green Island "spend more, but remain cautious and are far from being extravagant." It was added that there are many indications that the domestic trade is "experiencing a boom" and can count on significant profits again.more

Employers have called for budget supports for firms that would struggle with a proposed €1.40-an-hour hike in the national minimum wage. The Low Pay Commission has recommended a 12pc increase in the €11.30 hourly rate that would push it up to €12.70.more

A devastated community came together on Thursday night to attend a candlelight vigil, organised to remember the life of Emili Roman, the young girl who died in a swimming tragedy at a Cork beach earlier this week.more

While the timeline for completing the Metrolink seems to stretch endlessly into the future, delivery plans for the project are set to come into focus, finally. Two weeks ago, a group of consultants led by Dublin-based Turner & Townsend was appointed to oversee the delivery of Ireland’s first metro railway.more

A former model, influencer and domestic violence campaigner has backed Jason Poole - the brother of murdered Jennie Poole - for the implementation of a Domestic Violence Register.more

Nearly three million hours of home care promised by the HSE could not be provided last year mainly due to shortage of staff, it emerged yesterday. Although it set a target of 23.67 million hours it provided just 20.79 million, despite over 6,000 people on waiting lists.more

The pandemic hiring boom is over, according to data from online recruiter IrishJobs. Vacancies in banking, technology, science and travel have fallen significantly compared with last year and the previous quarter, although the IT sector was still the fourth-largest source of jobs between March and June.more

A European Commission report has said Ireland’s housing targets likely need to be “substantially” revised upwards, even though the government is struggling to hit its existing targets.more

Ireland’s gender pay gap is among the lowest in the EU, updated Eurostat data shows. more

Virtually all small businesses in Ireland – 90pc – are struggling to fill vacancies with qualified staff, according to the results of a survey published this morning by Chambers Ireland. more

Technical faults meant that for several hours on Tuesday, some Bank of Ireland customers could withdraw large sums from cash machines despite having little or no funds in their accounts. more