Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe says a mid-term capital spending review will identify the best ways to spend an additional €4.1bn earmarked on transport, education and housing in the coming years.

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe says a mid-term capital spending review will identify the best ways to spend an additional €4.1bn earmarked on transport, education and housing in the coming years.

Irish firms looking to expand their horizons after Brexit received a boost with the pledge that the Chinese are ready to do serious business.

Property developer Johnny Ronan’s planned “iconic” 22-storey Aqua Vetro tower will have an adverse and detrimental effect on the character and integrity of key buildings and architecturally-sensitive locations in Dublin, according to one objector to the plans.

The Scottish First Minister will be the keynote speaker at this year’s annual Dublin Chamber dinner, the latest in a long line of high profile guests, writes Pádraig Hoare of the Irish Examiner.

Whether you’re a French fan or an Irish fan, this weekend you are going to have to fork out to enjoy the Six Nations clash in Dublin.

Significant investment is needed in public transport and infrastructure in Dublin and Cork city centres if they are to keep up with increasing development and passenger numbers, according to the cities’ chambers of commerce.

Improving the existing N20 Cork to Limerick road should be an “immediate priority” for government as part of a wider effort to improve transport links across the island of Ireland.

A surge for sterling against the euro following the unexpected outcome of the UK election will boost Irish exporters, but investors say long-held worries about Britain exiting the EU will now swiftly take centre stage.

A woman has told her former partner’s murder trial that when she visited him in prison he told her he had stabbed the deceased.

Ireland’s tourism interests strongly oppose the sale of the Government’s stake in Aer Lingus unless the takeover bidders include guarantees to secure the future of Ireland’s regional airports.

A director at the Employers Group IBEC said the debate over tech companies offering to freeze female employees' eggs is "good for women".

Ibec, the group that represents Irish business, yesterday welcomed Ireland’s improved position in the World Economic Forum’s latest Global Competitiveness Report.

The priorities of business leaders has changed significantly in the last 12 months, according to a new report.

The cost of doing business in Ireland — already high by international standards — is beginning to increase even further and needs to be addressed if it is not to impact on our economic recovery, the National Competitiveness Council has warned.

The Government has to reduce the tax burden, streamline and make public services more efficient, support entrepreneurs, invest in infrastructure, and improve the quality of the education system, according to the employers’ group Ibec.

There was a broad welcome yesterday for the recommendations by the Entrepreneurship Forum for the support and growth of micro and small business over the coming years, firmly shifting the onus onto Government to make things a reality.

Boots has sparked a prescription price war with smaller pharmacies by slashing the cost of some of the most popular medicines by as much as 31%.

A divisional pharmacy manager for Boots Ireland, Mary Rose Burke, has scooped the title of Businesswoman of the Year.

THE governing body for Irish doctors has hit out at the decision by Boots Pharmacy to sell emergency contraception without prescription.

EMERGENCY contraception without prescription will be available for the first time in Ireland at Boots pharmacies from tomorrow.

People who suffer from diabetes are more than twice as likely to suffer from hearing loss, an expert warned today.

IT IS the clinic that promises a good hair day every day.