Dublin Airport has been given the green light for a new €200m underground cargo tunnel. Planning permission was granted by Fingal County Council for plans by daa to construct the 1.1km subterranean tunnel under the airport’s crosswind runway.more

Doctors are calling for urgent action to tackle Ireland’s severe shortage of general practitioners, which is causing significant challenges when it comes to delivering timely and high-quality patient care. more

Ireland will hold a referendum in November on whether to remove from its constitution provisions that place women in the home, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar has announced.more

Dublin and Cork airports recorded another record month for traffic with February passenger numbers surpassing pre-covid levels.more

Universities are calling for Government-imposed controls on staff and salaries to be lifted on foot of research indicating that the sector in Ireland faces some of the greatest restrictions anywhere in Europe.more

In a statement this afternoon, PayPal said it is proposing a reduction of 35 roles in Dublin and 27 roles in Dundalk. The proposed redundancies represent about 3% of PayPal’s total Irish workforce.more

The current ban on evictions is “creating a new form of homelessness”, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has said. Mr Varadkar has also promised the Government will make an announcement on whether it plans to extend the ban before the Dáil’s St Patrick’s Day recess, on March 9th. The current ban on evictions is due to expire at the end of March.more

The Government’s surprise decision to end a decade-old investor residency programme – commonly known as a ‘golden visa’ scheme – came after concerns were raised about unvetted applicants and a lack of real job creation.more

Energy provider Pinergy has become the first energy supplier here to reduce its prices since elevated wholesale costs began to fall on international markets. more

Uber Eats plans to expand its presence in Ireland after seeing a growth in small business activity on the platform since the pandemic. more

Nearly two-thirds of retail workers are earning less than €451 per week, new research from the Mandate trade union shows. more

Ireland could be blanketed in snow amid frigid conditions later this month or early in March as a weather pattern that contributed to the ‘Beast from the East’ blizzard, and the heavy snowfalls in 2010, is expected to develop in the coming days.more

Microsoft will cut 120 jobs in Ireland as part of a global cost-cutting initiative aimed at trimming its workforce by 10,000 people or 5 per cent this year, staff and the Government have been told. more

Gardaí are to dramatically ramp up the practice of travelling to international airports to ensure those seeking refuge in Ireland are boarding planes with the correct travel documents. A senior Government source has confirmed gardaí have already been travelling to a small number of mostly European countries after examining patterns and flows of people coming into Ireland, but that this is going tmore

Public Image Ltd - a band founded by singer John Lydon after the breakup of the Sex Pistols - will not represent Ireland in this year's Eurovision Song Contest. The indie-pop band Wild Youth won the concert to select the representative of this country yesterday evening.more

Multinationals boosted Ireland’s economy in Q4 2022, with faster growth in the sector than in the two previous quarters, estimates from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) showed.more

The medicines shortage has worsened with 12 more drugs out of stock in the last week including a treatment for epilepsy, it has emerged. more

Public Image Ltd - a band founded by vocalist John Lydon after the breakup of The Sex Pistols - is among the final six candidates to represent Ireland in this year's Eurovision Song Contest, Ireland's public broadcaster RTE announced yesterday.more

There is a shortage of accommodation for refugees from Ukraine in Ireland. For this reason, a group of refugees has been temporarily placed in the largest stadium in the country, and the government is appealing to Ukrainians to refrain from coming to Ireland for the time being.more

The latest quarterly housing report for MyHome.ie found inflation in asking prices for homes dropped in the last three months of 2022, as is typical for Q4 of a year, but 3% of homes listed for sale actually dropped their price.more

The Irish Data Protection Commissioner (DPC) has fined Facebook's parent company Meta €390m for violating privacy. The DPC also banned the company from forcing users in the European Union to accept personalized ads based on their online activity.more

Stephen Donnelly has acknowledged that people will die because of risks posed by overcrowding in emergency departments. It comes as more than 800 people are waiting on trolleys across the Irish hospital service on Wednesday morning.more

It's hard to avoid the rush and more frequent visits to stores in the last week before Christmas. Since many supermarkets are open at different times than usual, it's worth taking a moment to check when you have the last chance to shop.more

Ryanair has agreed a new pay deal with its pilots, which will last for a period of four years. The airline has signed off on the agreement with the trade union Fórsa. more

Health watchdog Hiqa has warned patients are not protected from harm in three out of seven hospital emergency departments inspected with at least one patient waiting 116 hours on a trolley. more