Online shopping has sky-rocketed in Ireland over the past decade, with a fivefold rise in shopping at the click of a mouse.

Demand for sugar-laden fizzy drinks in Ireland is falling due to concerns about child obesity, according to a new report.

International visitors to Dublin are forecast to hit more than 6m by 2025.

For every minute you spend reading this short piece, a million plastic bottles will be sold. That figure will jump by 20% within three years.

Ireland is now one of the world’s top 10 gin-drinking nations, writes John Daly

The number of Irish people travelling to Egypt and Turkey has fallen amid terrorist attacks and an uncertain political arena in the once-popular tourist hotspots.

For many pet owners, their furry companions are valued members of their families, providing companionship, endless fun, and affection. Ruth Doris explores some pet care start-ups. 

US cereal company Post Holdings agreed to buy Weetabix from Bright Food Group of China for £1.4bn (€1.65bn), adding the breakfast staple to a portfolio that includes Grape Nuts and Honey Bunches of Oats.

The price of crude slipped following the failed Turkey coup as shipments continued through the vital conduit for oil from Russia and Iraq to the Mediterranean Sea.

With the Wimbledon tennis championships just around the corner, the heavyweight global sports brands will once again battle for supremacy at one of the highest profile sporting events in the world.

A lightbulb moment by a US coffee executive while cruising in the Caribbean has created a boom product, writes Jennifer Caplan.

Jin Jiang International, which controls China’s largest lodging company by market value, is considering increasing its stake in French hotelier Accor, say sources.

Coffee Day Enterprises, the Indian cafe operator and coffee exporter, fell on its trading debut after the company and investors, including US private equity house KKR & Co, raised 11.5bn rupees (€159m) in India’s biggest share sale in three years.

Deirdre Reynolds says big knickers are making a comeback for 2015 but these ‘granny pants’ are a far cry from the baggy bloomers immortalised by Bridget Jones.

Dave Kenny grew up in an era when a splash of Brut and a flannel cloth under the arms was the height of male grooming. But that won’t wash anymore.

Men in Lycra could soon be outnumbering men in shorts on manicured foreign fairways, following a rise in the popularity of cycling breaks at the expense of golf trips.

Tesco is to merge its 131 stores in China with the second-biggest hypermarket chain in the country, ending almost a decade of independent operations as sales decline.

Danone, owner of Activia yoghurt and Evian water, will spend about €325m to form a joint venture and invest in China’s biggest dairy producer to expand its brands in the most populous nation.

Russia is an increasingly attractive market for Irish cheese exporters, according to the latest analysis from Bord Bia.

CHILLED ready meals have seen a growth of 10% in retail volume and value as consumers have decided that staying in is the new going out.

SALES of Irish whiskey are expected to grow faster than any of its competitors in overseas spirits markets, according to projections by global vintners body International Wine & Spirit Record.

WISE men have always known you can really get to know a person by sizing up their mates.

THREE-QUARTERS of people who own a dog do not have a licence.

ANTI-SMOKING campaigners yesterday called on the British Government to follow the lead of Ireland by introducing a complete ban on smoking in the workplace.