ONE of the country’s largest financial advisory firms, Deloitte, has committed to a new, long-term lease on its upgraded Cork city centre offices.

A government minister has said Gerry Adams’ denial of allegations that he ordered the murder of an IRA informer cannot be trusted.

Leaving the European Union would be like escaping from jail, Boris Johnson claimed as he said a business leader who was suspended over his support for Brexit paid a “heavy price”.

This week, news of a ’miracle baby’ in Gaza hit headlines around the globe.

Hugh Jackman believes he'll have "many more" skin cancer scares in the future.

Chancellor George Osborne was dealt a pre-Budget blow after official figures showed Britain’s trade deficit widened to £2.6 billion in January due to a disappointing export performance.

More signs of economic optimism in the UK have emerged as a business group forecast stronger-than-expected growth for this year.

Britain’s housebuilding bounce-back helped cement the biggest rise in construction output for more than a year last month in the latest sign of a “new dawn” for the sector.

British businesses gave qualified backing to the Prime Minister's pledge for an in/out referendum, but raised fears the vote will create greater uncertainty for under-pressure UK companies.

Prime Minister David Cameron has said he will not campaign for Britain to leave the EU in a referendum, warning that the UK would become “a sort of greater Switzerland” if it quit the 27-nation bloc.

Measures to give savers extra security if a bank fails will be announced by the British government today as part of major reforms for Britain's banking system.

The UK is still in danger of falling into recession, according to the Bank of England, but further emergency support is looking less likely amid concerns over inflation.

The Bank of England was today urged not to waste time in issuing another dose of emergency medicine to help the ailing British economy.

FOUNDING managing director of Irish Psychics Live and space buff Tom Higgins shared a dividend payout of €9.6 million before selling the company that operates the premium rate phone line, new figures show.

Fresh evidence of the UK's shortage of skilled workers was revealed today with a new study revealing that firms' expansion plans were being "frustrated" by the problem.

The owner of British electrical goods retailer Comet today revealed a 22% plunge in sales as consumer confidence fell to a "low ebb" across the UK.ealed a 22% plunge in sales as consumer confidence fell to a "low ebb" across the UK.

Bank of England policymakers will consider more drastic action to kick-start the UK economy today amid signs the fragile recovery is faltering.

Business and unions in the UK were divided tonight over the national minimum wage after the British government announced that the adult rate will increase by 15p an hour, benefiting almost a million workers.

Bank of England policymakers are expected to shrug off inflation jitters and keep interest rates at an historic low today.

The City today priced in an interest rate rise in May with potentially two more hikes to come later in the year.

The UK economy slowed "considerably" in the past few months, with job prospects and investment slowing and a "dismal" performance by firms in the service sector, a report showed today.

THE next government must move urgently to axe the planned National Insurance hike and outline plans to reduce Britain’s deficit or risk a recession relapse, a business group has warned.

British business and union leaders today made last-minute presentations to the UK Government ahead of next week’s Budget, with differing views on how to lead the country out of recession.

UK exports took their biggest plunge in more than three years during January, official figures showed today.

The European Union was accused today of meddling in maternity policy after MEPs backed an EU-wide extension of maternity leave to 20 weeks, with six weeks on full pay.

The UK's goods trade gap with the rest of the world widened to an 11-month high of £7.3 billion in December, official figures showed today.

TV3’S controversial coverage of Finance Minister Brian Lenihan’s cancer diagnosis has received one of the highest number of complaints in national broadcasting history.

RTÉ 2FM was today rapped by the broadcasting watchdog for allowing foul and offensive language be aired on a morning chat show.

SHOCK jock Gerry Ryan may like to brighten his broadcasts with colourful language, but a listener has suggested a repeat of a recent comment could see him stricken from the airwaves.

AS RTÉ is quickly realising, you just can’t please all of the people all of the time.

COMPLAINTS by viewers that a sketch on RTÉ 2’s Nightlive programme was “sick, utterly offensive and breached all sense of decency” have been upheld by the Broadcasting Complaints Commission (BCC).

TV watchdogs today upheld complaints that a spoof RTÉ news show was poking fun at children dying of leukaemia.

RTÉ’s coverage of the Lisbon treaty was heavily biased in favour of the yes side, a report carried out by an anti-Lisbon group has claimed.

A STANDARDS watchdog has upheld eight complaints about comedian Tommy Tiernan for offensive comments about disabled people and others on the Late Late Show and also criticised host Gerry Ryan for egging him on.

COMPLAINTS against Newstalk for sending a reporter to a psychiatric day hospital with knives in her bag and against Today FM for broadcasting a pop song called F**k You, have been upheld by the Broadcasting Complaints Commission (BCC).

GERRY RYAN’S “risqué stream of consciousness” didn’t work for RTÉ as an excuse for the presenter encouraging comedian Julian Clary to read a “sexually explicit” passage of his book on morning radio during school holidays.

The Broadcasting Complaints Commission has upheld a complaint made against Gerry Ryan's radio show on RTE's 2fm.

I REFER to an article published in the Irish Examiner on August 27 concerning a decision by the Broadcasting Complaints Commission (BCC) with regard to the Neil Prendeville programme on Cork’s 96FM. Your coverage was inaccurate and I feel it needs to be clarified.

Chat show host Pat Kenny was today criticised for being dismissive and unfair in his treatment of rogue solicitor Michael Lynn’s insurance company during a live broadcast.

The pace of the UK’s economic downturn will be revealed today with the publication of the latest official growth estimates.

YOUR report headlined ‘Ahern fair game, but not Travellers, according to BCC’ (July 3) seems to suggest that a fine line was walked by producers of RTÉ’s Once A Week Show when determining whether or not “tinker” and “knick-knack” are reasonable terms to be broadcast on TV programmes aimed at children.

YOU can call Bertie Ahern a rat and a liar, but derogatory terms about the Travelling community are out of bounds — according to the latest batch of decisions from the Broadcasting Complaints Commission (BCC).

BROADCASTING watchdogs yesterday reignited the debate over RTÉ Television’s High Society programme alleging a government minister had taken cocaine.

AN EPISODE of The Bill shown on RTÉ last December which featured a man committing suicide has been deemed “totally inappropriate” for a daytime schedule by the Broadcasting Complaints Commission.