Internet providers have said that the broadband network has the capacity to allow for an increase in people working from home.

Telecom operators in Ireland have rejected possible new regulations that would help consumers avoid ‘bill shock’ where they receive unexpectedly large bills after going over their monthly allowance.

The FAI’s executive lead Paul Cooke tonight refused to deny a claim by Sports Minister Shane Ross that the association have sought a bailout of over €10m.

It says the decision was made to facilitate the signing-off of the accounts and to ensure that the entire board can be present.

Paul Cooke, newly installed as Executive Lead – effectively now the Association’s acting CEO – gave ample warning at October’s AGM that the figures “won’t be pretty and will shock people”.

The embattled FAI have been hit by yet another blow with the news that Three Ireland will not be renewing their flagship sponsorship next year, a deal which the company says has seen it invest €30 million in Irish football over the past ten years.

It’s the tricky season of gift buying; how much to spend, and possibly overspending, but with a home interiors gift you can blend practicality with something lovely, writes Carol O’Callaghan.

Desperate members of a lifeboat crew tried to save the life of a colleague whose car slipped into the sea in a freak accident off the coast of Donegal.

A massive 84% of Vodafone’s customer base is over 50 years of age, with 80% of Three’s users being under 34.

The Advertising Standards Authority for Ireland (ASAI) has received 20 complaints in 18 months from the public relating to phone and broadband providers advertising products as "unlimited" when they actually included caps.

The National Centre for Youth Mental Health has revealed that it sees a 35% increase in the number of young people engaging with its services in the run-up to the exam period.

Bastien Peyraud has been appointed as general manager of the Imperial Hotel, Cork, part of the Flynn Hotels group.

The Irish recruitment scene is enjoying an upsurge in activity in recent times, as can been seen with this selection of new appointments and promotions.

A national map of outdoor mobile phone coverage for 2G, 3G and 4G services for a range of providers has been published by ComReg, the Commission for Communications Regulation, which regulates the electronic communications and postal sectors.

Latest: John Delaney has reportedly resigned from his position as FAI Executive Vice President.

The FAI’s largest sponsor has issued a warning over the association’s corporate governance amid controversy over its finances.

Consumers faced mobile phone charge increases of up to 20% as a direct result of the acquisition of O2 Ireland by Three four years ago, a report by the representative body of EU telecom regulators has found.

Three Ireland has been hit with a €575,000 fine for breaching the rules that govern changes to customers’ contracts and switching.

The extra hour in bed was appreciated on Sunday morning but it also meant the start of the long winter nights, writes Gráinne McGuinness

A new phone scam swept across Ireland last week, involving people receiving unexpected calls from international numbers. Liberia and Chad were the most common and no

Keano’s superpower might have been football, but he discovered another along the way in his magnetism. And how a nation hangs on every word he utters, or is uttered about him, writes Larry Ryan.

Mobile operator O2 could be forced to wait until next year to press ahead with a long-awaited £10 billion stock market flotation following delays to a crucial airwaves rights auction.

An Apple hack that affected “several thousand people” worldwide and racked up huge bills for unsuspecting customers has been uncovered by Irish mobile security company AdaptiveMobile.

The Spanish owner of O2 said it may float the British mobile network after seeing a tie-up with rival operator 3 collapse.

Bid rigging, ‘car-clocking’ and selling of crashed cars were among the offences investigated, and in some cases prosecuted, by the Competition and Consumer Protection Commission, in its first two years of work.

Local authorities are facing multi-million funding shortfalls following confirmation that there will be no Government compensation this year following a rates review.

An incredible 400,000 visitors are expected to visit Ennis next month, over the nine-day run of the 2016 Fleadh Cheoil: in terms of context for size and scale, that’s four times the number of visitors expected at this week’s Dublin Horse Show.

Three has announced a partnership with Deezer, which will give Three customers free access to Deezer Premium+ for 6 months.

Three has been ranked the worst performing mobile network in Ireland lagging behind its competitors on network speed and data performance, in particular.

I love people who can laugh at themselves. We can all take ourselves a little too seriously sometimes.

Sony Mobile's latest has just landed in Ireland, with the Xperia M5 available today on EirMobile and Three.

A UK watchdog, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), has urged European regulators to effectively block the €12.7bn merger of mobile phone networks Three and O2.

Three Ireland has brought a €65m partner on board to help overhaul its IT infrastructure and integrate O2’s systems following Three’s takeover of its rival in March 2015.

As chief executive of Eircell in the late 1990s, Stephen Brewer was to the forefront of the country’s nascent mobile revolution.

Telecoms giant BT confirmed that it has begun a search to replace its long-serving group finance director.

Calls to the Samaritans have jumped by 30% in the last year — as more and more people in distress contact the charity.

Phone company Three has been spared a criminal conviction for over-charging customers.

Talks between Vodafone and Liberty Global about exchanging assets to better compete in Europe’s converging mobile, broadband, and TV markets collapsed yesterday because they could not agree on the value of their businesses.