A multiplicity of errors and omissions led to the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) green energy scandal that brought down powersharing in Northern Ireland, not political corruption, a public inquiry has found.

The best antidote to the current world trade turmoil is innovation, the creation of products and services that make life better — whether it’s butter, vaccines, or text messaging. Every country wants to foster a culture of innovation, but it’s not easy to do.

A former special adviser to DUP leader Arlene Foster has said he thought minutes had been taken of a key Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) meeting in Northern Ireland.

The overspending RHI led to the collapse of powersharing at Stormont 13 months ago after former deputy first minister Martin McGuinness resigned over the DUP's handling of the affair.

The Government has issued a strong denial to Sinn Féin claims that funding increase requests from the State’s corporate enforcer were turned down.

Asked if she may have to stand down Regina Doherty said: ‘The principle is more important than the job’, writes Alison O’Connor

Parents awaiting the building of a new primary school in Kanturk can breathe a sigh of relief after it was confirmed a planning condition laid down by An Bord Pleanála can be met by Cork County Council.

Budget day is no longer shrouded in secrecy. We’ve come a long way since 2003, when the then minister for finance, Charlie McCreevy, launched decentralisation on an unwitting populace in his budget speech. Not all of his cabinet colleagues knew what was coming.

A €24m surge in the value of weapons and military items exported to foreign countries has prompted concern about Ireland sending goods to nations with poor human rights records.

Unemployment has fallen below 9% for the first time since 2008 — but employers’ body Ibec has expressed concern at the disparity in the pace of employment growth between Dublin and the rest of the country.

It was a barefaced cheek of the minister to make a virtue out of the new guidelines, writes Alison O’ Connor

Around 20,000 jobs are to be slashed from the North’s public sector following a political deal to safeguard powersharing.

Around 20,000 jobs are to be slashed from the North’s public sector following a political deal to safeguard powersharing.

Almost €250m is to be invested in the establishment of five research centres with collaboration from industry, third-level education institutions, and the Government.

House prices have risen by nearly 15% in the past year, according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office.

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Up to 100 jobs will be created after the Government-backed BDO Development Capital Fund announced an €8m investment in Irish IT services company Version 1.

A close look at Sean Sherlock, Alan Kelly and Michael McCarthy

Ireland’s largest exporter of multilingual business process outsourcing is now hiring, writes Eoin English.

The Government has been given clearance to increase the number of regions where it can give grants to businesses to support investment and job creation.

The Government has been told to re-hire a former staff member of the Department of Employment — after it failed to correctly interpret its own employment laws.

Hundreds of farmers swarmed into supermarkets around the country, bought up the all the heavily discounted vegetables on sale and then gave them away for free to the public outside.

How much longer can we, the plain people, put up with continued attacks on equality in Ireland?

Public Accounts Committee chairman John McGuinness said his wife travelled on three state-funded trips abroad while he was a junior minister, but he regrets suggesting taxpayers should fund spousal travel.

Fianna Fáil is standing behind TD John McGuinness after the Taoiseach labelled as “damaging” his remarks that the State should pay for ministers’ spouses to travel on trade missions.

The Dáil’s public spending watchdog is to launch an investigation into how €290,000 was spent on furnishing the office of its own chairman in 2007 when he was a junior minister.

The head of the Oireachtas spending watchdog committee faces questions about his role in approving a €250,000 kitting-out of his office when he was a junior minister.

Three council workers who were suspended for filling a pothole are due back at work today after their suspensions were lifted.

Three council workers have been suspended pending an investigation into how they were filling potholes.

Internet technology giants Yahoo and McAfee are to hire 260 people over the next few years.

Up to 100 new jobs are expected to be announced for Limerick today.

Fine Gael TD John Deasy has accused the IDA of ignoring regions outside of Dublin, Cork, and Galway despite worsening unemployment problems in such areas.

The State spent over €103m renting property from Nama-hit developers, beef barons, business tycoons, banks and even religious organisations last year.

Major additional funding is being sought to turn the Belfast-based First World War warship HMS Caroline into a spectacular new tourist attraction.

Almost 150 jobs are to go as the fallout from the collapse of one of Northern Ireland’s biggest construction companies continues.

A financial services firm has announced plans to create 100 jobs.

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Small businesses finding it difficult to get loans are being offered a new lifeline by the Department of Enterprise, Jobs and Innovation.

The Health Minister James Reilly is going to have to be courageous in the face of Ireland's obesity problem, according to a weight management expert.

McDonald’s is to create 700 jobs with a €20m investment in its Irish operations.

Outspoken economist Tom O’Connor has called on the Government to crack down on rogue employers to protect workers.

Fianna Fáil is calling on the Department of Enterprise to examine if everything was done to save Target Express.

Jobs Minister Richard Bruton is leading 36 firms on a trade mission to France to build on the €10bn of exports to the country.