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

A live animal crib has been officially opened in Dublin city’s Stephen’s Green park. It follows a row over the Lord Mayor of Dublin’s decision to end the crib display at the Mansion House, where it has featured for more than 20 years.more

GPs are inundated with demands for antibiotics at a time when pharmacists have warned supplies of some products for respiratory illnesses are at a 25-year low.more

Energy provider Pinergy has on Friday announced a 14% hike in electricity prices which will add around €320 to a typical household’s annual bill.more

In both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, a majority of residents support a referendum on island reunification, but if it were to take place, the idea would be clearly rejected in Northern Ireland, according to a poll published yesterday by The Irish Times.more

Details of a new program encouraging people to recycle soda bottles and cans have been announced. Under the project, the deposit will be 15 cents for bottles and cans up to 500 ml and 25 cents for those with a larger capacity.more

The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, who is on a visit to Ireland, assessed yesterday that relations with the UK have improved since Rishi Sunak became its Prime Minister and is confident that a solution can be found to the Northern Ireland Protocol dispute.more

A Polish national living in Ireland has lost a claim that he was discriminated against by the Department of Health over the requirement to take a Covid-19 test every time he passed through Dublin Airport during the pandemic.more