New car sales decreased by 5% in January compared to the same period last year.

The winter transfer window has closed with a number of big deals completed on deadline day.

Olivier Giroud’s presence on the sidelines provided confirmation Antonio Conte had got the new striker he wanted during the January transfer window.

Ah, January, the month of resolutions, new year new me quotes, bucket lists and indulging in some well-needed Netflix therapy, writes Breda Graham.

Suffering from January blues? Here’s the cure — a big pot of bubbling stew and even if you never cooked a thing in your life you can do this.

Getting things done in a democracy is difficult.

Five closure orders have been issued by the Food Safety Authority of Ireland (FSAI) during the month of January.

People are being warned that extreme January detox diets can be fatal.

Secondary School teachers will be balloted in January on a new deal aimed at ending their dispute with the Government.

Manufacturing output surged in January, but the huge increases were again driven by the so-called ‘modern’ part of the economy dominated by multinationals which provide proportionately fewer jobs than indigenous firms. 

There were 2,700 less people on the Live Register in February, than in January, when the figures are seasonally adjusted.

A bounce of 7.3% in tax receipts in the first month of the year indicates the exchequer’s coffers will continue to fill early this year at least — providing comfort to whichever party or combination of parties form the next administration after the elections.

Carol O’Callaghan gets inside the January furniture shopping spree. 

PICTURE this. The changing rooms in a health club. Two ladies in expensive tennis gear, lightly sweating, zipping their racquets away. One is saying to the other: “I’m incandescent. He made an appointment with the builder to come at nine on Monday to redo the conservatory. He KNOWS I play tennis on Monday.”