What's big for food in the week ahead?

Make sure you’re armed with the necessary information before splashing the cash on a kitchen tap, with some expert advice from Kya deLongchamps.

Fianna Fáil has also done many God-awful things but the fact is they handled the banking crash well, writes Victoria White

Spotlight on national broadband plan as Eir sold again in €3.5bn transaction

Phone company Eircom has been fined €10,500 after it admitting overcharging customers.

THERE is a sharp contrast between interviews given in recent days by Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and British prime minister Theresa May. 

Natural gas is to be piped into Longford for the first time following the signing of a €3m deal with holiday village operators Center Parcs.

A businessman who hopes to double his workforce by building a €500,000 food production facility in Co Cork says his plans have been stymied by cuts and changes to the State’s Leader funding scheme.

George Soros says Europe is facing an existential crisis that goes far beyond Brexit and must reinvent itself to generate the buy-in from states and citizens to hold it together.

The €40,000 disparity between the cost of placing a child in care through a private foster care agency as opposed to foster carers registered directly with Tusla is to be examined by an Oireachtas committee.

The €23m the Department of Education plans to pay for the Harold’s Cross greyhound stadium in Dublin could be well over twice its market value, a TD and auctioneer claims.

European leaders today are expected to give unanimous support to a special declaration that the North would rejoin the EU after Brexit in the event of a vote for Irish reunification.

Brexit, says Milk The Cow podcast, is “Like when Geri Halliwell overestimated her viability as a solo artist and left the Spice Girls.”

Sterling has had its longest losing streak against the euro since August amid evidence that the UK’s decision to leave the EU is starting to hit economic data just as European policymakers strike a more positive note on the eurozone’s prospects.

The announcement yesterday that a €100m scheme will provide more than 1,300 houses in Cork is welcome. The announcement must, however, also provoke a sigh of relief.

A €200m project is to create 23 solar farms in the south and south east of the country, leading to 2,000 jobs during construction and 60 full-time positions on completion.

Zombie-banks, anti-EU sentiment and a stagnant economy are just some of the issues facing a country that would be too big to bail out, writes Philippe Legrain

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As John McHale prepares to step down from the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council, he can scan across the positives of the Irish economy since the watchdog was set up at the height of the crisis.

The Central Bank has made a declaration of intent in its probe into tracker mortgages by slapping a €4.5m fine on Springboard Mortgages, a unit of State-owned Permanent TSB Group.

The Central Bank has fined Springboard Mortgages — a unit of Permanent TSB Group — €4.5m for overcharging customers for their tracker mortgages.

The recent surge in volatility in the currency market has done little to disturb the relative calm that investors in European stock markets are betting on.

Political risk has come to the fore in recent times, creating a lot of volatility and uncertainty in financial markets.

A partner in a film distribution company could not be made liable for a €30,000 income tax bill 10 years after he filed a €63,000 loss in his self-assessed returns because of a four-year time limit for re-opening of a compliant taxpayer’s affairs, the Supreme Court has ruled.

A €3 billion wishlist submitted by ministers is to be dramatically cut in the coming days as no additional funding will be available in the upcoming budget.

In the harsh world of international business, the pressure to perform is unrelenting.

A €500m aid package for the EU agriculture sector, with particular emphasis on the crisis-hit dairy industry, was announced by Farm Commissioner Phil Hogan yesterday.

The future of London as the hedge-fund capital of Europe, along with the €700bn (€820bn) of assets money managers control, may be determined by a market watchdog this month.

The sharp fall in the sterling exchange rate, following the British referendum on EU membership, had immediate effect on livestock prices for Irish farmers.

A Dublin-based company is starting construction of a €30m plant which will convert chicken waste into biogas.

The ECB acts as the enforcer for the EU’s creditor countries, who tell it when to cut off liquidity or when to give loans that maintain a facade of solvency, writes Yanis Varoufakis

The €4.25m Argos investment, in Cork City centre, facing the Capitol cinema redevelopment site, has been bought by neighbouring developers, Clarendon Properties, with a view to future redevelopment of their Queens Old Castle holding, on the Grand Parade.

The resources to build a future for Ireland based on a vibrant economy, decent services, just taxation, good governance and long term sustainability exist and it is now just a question of political choices, argues Fr Sean Healy of Social Justice Ireland.

Expansion costs and a €1.25m write-off in a subsidiary resulted in discount retailer Euro General going into the red last year.

Tourists' satisfaction with Ireland is increasing year on year, according to Fáilte Ireland.