Black Friday and Cyber Monday will be a “double-edged sword” for Irish retailers with margin pressures incurred from major discounting offsetting the spike in business, a retail expert has said.

Ireland could lose its ability to keep and attract hi-tech foreign multinationals over its failure to sign up for an EU plan to acquire and deploy a pan-European integrated infrastructure for supercomputers by 2023, the Government has been warned.

The reselling of tickets above their face value is set to be banned under legislation expected to come before the Dáil shortly.

New measures to allow asylum seekers to work in Ireland are impractical, say protesters.

The Government has come under fire for not marketing regional towns for foreign direct investment after the Department of Business revealed almost the number of available IDA sites far outnumber those occupied.

Britain's biggest banks are planning to launch a multimillion-pound fund to bolster smaller businesses, it was reported today.