The social media giant has unveiled Libra, a cryptocurrency payment system that, if it fails, could take down the global economy. Governments must intervene, says Katharina Pistor.

A tentative deal has been reached on a seven-year, €960bn budget that will come into effect next year, the European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso said today.

Tánaiste Eamon Gilmore has hinted that families and households could be in line for some financial relief with room for movement in October’s budget.

MOBILE MESSAGING FORUM chairman Eamon Hession has called on the Government and the mobile and broadcasting industries to take decisive action to support the introduction of mobile TV in Ireland.