An Irish cybersecurity startup outlines the cyber threats facing health organisations, writes Trish Dromey

Shopping centre owner Hammerson has sold up its out-of-town shopping centres in Britain and the North for a total of £400m (€477m).

Here is a selection of people who have just begun interesting new roles with companies in Ireland.

If pensions are a surprise election issue then the reaction of the major parties is not surprising. Ignoring sustainability and officially sanctioned inequity all stayed within our conventional, failing idea of pension provision.

It’s not exactly Times Square in New York, but the owners of the Stephen’s Green shopping centre in Dublin face having to remove the large digital advertising sign over its main entrance because of its visual impact on the surrounding area.

Whether or not you make financial New Year’s resolutions, you no doubt want to improve your finances in the coming year. And a quick review of the last decade may help us shape decisions for the next one.

Goodbody Stockbrokers is set to be sold to Bank of China in a deal understood to be worth around €150m, after a lengthy sales process.

The impact of retirement on the lives of older adults is the focus of the latest wave of research from recently published The Irish Longitudinal Study on Ageing, supported by Irish Life.

Health Minister Simon Harris has responded to the report on removing private care from public hospitals by saying he believes “passionately” in universal health care.

Hammerson, the owner of shopping centres in Britain and Ireland, named insurance giant AIG executive James Lenton as its new finance chief, months after saying Timon Drakesmith would step down from the role this year.

Irish-based businesses are recruiting and expanding across a wide range of sectors. Here is a selection of people who have moved into interesting new roles.

A dispute between Irish Life and a UK-based fashion retail group over the purported termination of a lease for a premises in Cork City has been admitted to the fast-track Commercial Court list.

A judge has warned a man who continues to live in his re-possessed home that he may face prison if he does not vacate the property in the next seven days.

Property investment fund Green Reit has said it is "pleased" with how its sales process is progressing and with the level of interest shown in the business and its assets.

A man who caused almost €2 million worth of damage when he burned down a Flyefit gym has been jailed for six-and-a-half years.

Pensions firm Irish Life topped the list of complaints made to the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman last year, while the main banks were also the target of grievances from customers.

Volunteering and socialising not only help to keep age-related illnesses at bay, they also increase your levels of happiness, says Margaret Jennings.

Denis Coughlan has played more games at Páirc Uí Chaoimh than he cares to remember, in both football and hurling.

Amazon is facing a fresh planning battle to build a large new data centre in west Dublin amid claims it could affect plans to build new houses.

Greencoat Renewables — the power-generating firm whose shares are listed in Dublin and London — has paid up to €281m to buy out most of the stakes held by Coillte in four wind farms, as the firm expands in Ireland by spending some of the proceeds it raised from the market.

AN overseas investment fund, as yet unconfirmed, is the buyer of the c€30 million residential-led investment sale of the City Square development, in Cork City’s Blackpool, which has a weekly income of €40,000, or c €2m per annum.

A €7.2 bn transaction between Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Life and Permanent had no commercial substance because Anglo's asset profile didn't change, a jury has heard.

A senior banker at Irish Life and Permanent ordered the €7.2 Billion transaction with Anglo Irish Bank be documented in case “something goes pop”, a jury has heard.

French shopping centre owner Klepierre raised its takeover offer for rival Hammerson, but the London-listed company said it still undervalued its worth and advised shareholders to reject it.

Staff at Irish Life are to stage a 24-hour stoppage on April 12 over the company’s plans to close off the defined benefit pension scheme to future accrual from June 30.

The former head of group finance at Anglo Irish Bank said he was not aware that €7.2bn transactions with Irish Life and Permanent were “a straight exchange of cash with no underlying security” until after they had taken place.

Drumm also said he intended to go to “that fucking shower of clowns down in Dame Street,” to look for emergency funding for the bank, his trial has heard.

Cancer continues to be the main cause of death and illness in Ireland — with a leading life insurer paying out almost €190m to families last year.

Unite is to ballot workers for industrial action.

David Drumm, the former chief executive of Anglo Irish Bank, has pleaded not guilty to being involved in an alleged €7.2bn conspiracy to defraud and to dishonestly providing false information to the market.

MINDLESS eating is the bad habit most Irish people want to break, according to new research.

A legal executive who was jailed for three years for stealing €260,000 from the solicitor's firm he previously worked for has agreed to have a receiver appointed over his pension fund.

Aviva Ireland wants to increase its market share in pensions and life-assurance, having completed a €130m acquisition of Friends First, writes Eamon Quinn. 

Aviva Ireland wants to increase its market share in pensions and life-assurance, having completed a €130m acquisition of Friends First.

Consumer advice with Gráinne McGuinness

Financial advice with Grainne McGuinness

Spending by Irish consumers remains weak, according to Visa Ireland, which monitors spending by cards, cheques, and cash in the economy.

A third of people claim not to have any savings at all, saying they cannot afford to save, according to research by Irish Life.

AS CBRE prepares to open its first Cork office, new MD Brian Edwards gives an overview of the Cork commercial investment market

Here's your evening update.

Two former bank executives jailed last year for a €7.2 billion conspiracy to defraud in 2008 have opened appeals against their convictions.