Leo Varadkar today announced new measures to help tackle the Covid-19 outbreak.

Here is a selection of people starting new roles with companies in Ireland, including law firm Philip Lee, IT firm Paradyn, media sales house IRS+, PR firm FH, digital state agency OpenSky, the Law Reform Commission and marketing group Core Sponsorship.

The prospect of the coronavirus leading to redundancies in under pressure companies could spark an upsurge in employment litigation, warns Kyran Fitzgerald

The country has a temporary government, political parties are still unable to create a working coalition, and a public health emergency is changing the way we live and threatening to turn the Finance Department’s public spending calculations inside out.

JUST how does a ‘caretaker’ Taoiseach get away with shutting down the country while away on foreign soil, without Cabinet approval and with no mandate to govern?

Larry Vaughn, you should be living at this hour.

Ireland has officially moved to the delay phase of Covid-19 engagement, the Government has confirmed — a move it said could “potentially save thousands of lives”.

The Taoiseach will travel to Washington DC today for a series of engagements as part of the annual St Patrick’s Day programme.

Five new cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in the Republic of Ireland.

The country is now confronting its dependence on exports to China and the destructive power of global warming, but all Western nations will shortly have to reckon with both, says Carl Bildt

The dollar retains the upper hand on foreign exchange markets, with the currency hitting three-year highs on a trade-weighted basis in recent days.

Kyran Fitzgerald analyses the latest economic signals which point towards continuing good times the US-Irish trade.

AmCham Transatlantic Conference 2020 on Thursday, March 5, in Croke Park, will bring together the leading voices of the Transatlantic business relationship

There must — mustn’t there? — have been someone in the room who asked questions when the US president, Donald Trump, and his advisors met to discuss the proposal to kill Iran’s General Qassem Soleimani.

In her last column of 2019 Suzanne Harrington dares to dream ...

Our regular contributors select their highlights of the year.

Galway has been given a major tourism boost ahead of its stint as European Capital of Culture as it beat the likes of Dubai and Vancouver to be named as a must-visit city next year by travel bible Lonely Planet.

With the torrent of news last week from Washington DC and London, it was possible to miss the poignant, almost heartbreaking, cry of a man who, with his carefree youth behind him, looks down the road ahead and spies the encroaching uncertainties of middle age and, it seems, the unending agonies of a troubled world.

While Shrita Parker was posing for photos at the launch of Basketball Ireland’s new season in Tallaght on Wednesday there was a mass shooting in her home town of Virginia Beach.

Phil Hogan will not be the first Irish politician to find redemption and to have carved out an international reputation in Brussels.

A United Airlines aircraft that turned back from its Atlantic crossing yesterday due to a technical fault was sent out over Dublin Bay as a delaying tactic rather than landing immediately in Dublin Airport.

As Foo Fighters get ready to rock Dublin, Ed Power traces Dave Grohl’s journey from the wreckage of Nirvana to fronting another of the biggest rock bands on the planet. It’s a tale that also has a surprising Irish twist

Season three of American Crime Story was announced last week.

No capitalist economy has yet organised for itself arrangements that ensure labour market wages are perceived universally as fair; as day follows night, there will always be a class of workers convinced that their pay — or, for the managerial classes, salary — does not reward sufficiently the value of their labour, and that another group is laughing all the way to the bank clutching needlessly generous remuneration packages.

Northern Ireland looms even larger an issue for Brexit as US Irish Americans wield influence.

Former US president Barack Obama’s statement following shootings in Ohio and El Paso that left more than 30 people dead, was directed at Americans, but it has far wider relevance.

Irish businesses have been urged to invest in the US market, with states in the American heartland seen as ripe for growth.

Road restrictions are already in place around Doonbeg in Clare ahead of this week's visit by US president Donald Trump.

The election results are almost all in and political anoraks have been digesting the information gleaned from the ballot boxes like famished goats.