The Thrive Project is a six-month leadership programme developed to nurture the next generation of food and drinks companies in building scale and expanding reach. First established in 2016, the programme was created by Coca-Cola and Enterprise Ireland, in partnership with Dublin City University.

Nissan has given the starkest warning yet on the future of the Japanese group’s car factories in western Europe, with a plant in the UK threatened by Brexit and another in Spain suffering from a slump in demand.

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The US has banned the Chinese company on the basis that it will use its hardware to spy, so it should do the same to the American social media giants, says Ngaire Woods.

According to the Asthma Society of Ireland, 8,200 deaths have been prevented in Dublin since the ban was introduced in 1990.

The economy will grow at a fair clip but the lack of housing, transport, and childcare is holding back business expansion plans and could shape up as the biggest challenge facing the country, Ibec has said.

Catalonia’s separatist leaders have unilaterally breached the constitutional order of Spain, says the country’s prime minister Pedro Sánchez, but there is room for dialogue

Here in Syros, a small island in the Cyclades in Greece, I was ambling homeward at night after a memorable meal of kalamari (squid) stuffed with feta cheese, when I rounded a corner and was stopped as dead in my tracks as if I’d walked into a wall, the wall being the overpowering scent of afrangipani tree growing more than 50m away in the courtyard of our guesthouse.

The plans of billionaire cable mogul John Malone — who owns Virgin Media cable and broadband, as well as hotels in Ireland — for a $6.4bn (€5.7bn) sale of UPC Switzerland fell apart after would-be purchaser Sunrise Communications concluded its shareholders won’t support the move.

Environmentally, the increasing number of visitors is unintentionally degrading the area that they come to see and admire most in the Burren.

Twitter users are having problems with their accounts this morning as a result of an outage on the platform.

Norway unexpectedly took almost $400m (€360m) from its sovereign wealth fund in August, marking the first such withdrawal in over a year as western Europe’s biggest petroleum producer takes advantage of its enormous piggy bank amid a decline in oil prices.

For the past month or more we have been made aware of the effects of greenhouse gases on the planet in a most striking manner. Millions of people around the world have been galvanised into action to raise awareness of the dangers to humanity’s only home.

Ireland has one of the highest levels of alcohol consumption and heavy drinking in Europe, according to the World Health Organisation.

Javier Marías, Spain’s most celebrated living writer, has chronicled its long-deferred reckoning with its violent, fascist past, but is curiously indifferent to plans to rebury dictator Franco, writes Giles Harvey.

Europe experienced a truly miraculous few months 30 years ago. At a precipice, blood could have flowed. The floodgates of change opened instead, writes Carl Bildt

Experts have concluded that human-driven changes added up to 3 degrees Celsius to the recent record-breaking temperatures, write Eric Roston, Mathew Carr and Lisa Pham

In your July 25 edition, Victoria White stated that: “It’s clear Boris Johnson doesn’t give a stuff about Northern Ireland”.

The Magnum, Carte d'or and Ben & Jerry's owner has admitted ice cream sales took a hit in spring and early summer this year due to the cooler weather.

Cobh in Cork has been named one of the world's most popular cruise destinations by a leading review site.

The State’s pricing deal with the pharmaceutical industry ends this year, and the funding of innovation must become a priority, if patients here are to have the early access that patients elsewhere in western Europe have, says Bernard Mallee

Irish people's trust in vaccines is below the global average.

US-based property investment fund Starwood Property Trust is understood to be preparing to sell a portfolio of offices in Dublin, in one of Ireland’s biggest real estate sales.

While asthma death rates are falling in many developed countries, they appear to be rising here — now new research highlights the huge public health burden of managing the chronic disease in Ireland.

While asthma death rates are falling in many developed countries, they appear to be rising here - now new research highlights the huge public health burden of managing the chronic disease in Ireland.

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With “bird numbers plummeting”, “the insect Armageddon”, and “climate catastrophe only 12 years away”, there’s doom and gloom on the wildlife front.

Household incomes are at record levels, according to a new report from business group IBEC.

An Easyjet flight which had been diverted to an airport in Portugal allegedly took off without its disembarked passengers, who had to travel by coach to their final destination.

The infamous FAI hearing at the sport and transport committee of April 2019, since known as the Morning of the Long Pause, marked a turning point in the fortunes of many of the participants, though no-one realised that at the time.

Shares in Walt Disney surged to an all-time high on enthusiasm for its coming streaming service, Disney Plus.

Western Europe’s biggest oil producer is, seemingly, falling out of love with oil.

Perhaps your editorial (April 1), on Nato’s 70th anniversary was intended as an April Fool joke...

We are the only country in Western Europe which doesn’t provide free, universal access to primary care, writes Victoria White

Ireland has the lowest number of paediatric surgeons per capita when compared to other European countries, despite having the highest birth rate in Western Europe.

One in five people believe antisemitism is a problem in the Republic, but they are divided over whether their views on Jews are influenced by the ongoing conflict in the Middle East (45% felt it was a factor; 43% didn’t).