23 May 2013
09:16, Post Reporter
Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) has announced investment of €6.9 million for 62 research projects.
08:54, Fearghal O'Connor
Dublin’s Iseq index has fallen 1.3 per cent this morning as markets everywhere took a heavy pounding.
08:20, Philip Connolly
Today’s startup is LikeWhere, which has developed a new web and smartphone application which allows users to find sites that suit their interest in a new city.
06:38, Fearghal O'Connor
The top business stories from today's newspapers.
06:07, Post Reporter
Japanese shares plummeted after China’s manufacturing output unexpectedly contracted and the yen strengthened.
05:43, Post Reporter
Hewlett-Packard, which employs about 4,000 people in Ireland, saw its share price rise last night after its profit forecast beat analysts’ estimates.
05:25, Post Reporter
The main business events for the period of May 23rd to 25th.
16:50, Post Reporter
The following is the full text of Herman van Rompuy's account of today's EU Council meeting, where issues around tax evasion were top of the agenda.
15:57, Catherine O'Mahony
* EU vows to fight tax evasion. * IDA says Ireland's not a tax haven. * Kepak wins Burger King beef contract. * Britvic shares surge on cost-cutting plan.
15:45, Post Reporter
UPDATE: "We will work toward making sure that companies are more strongly brought to pay their taxes where they are located": Merkel
14:50, Catherine O'Mahony
Share prices revived after Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke signalled the organisation would continue to support economic recovery.
14:41, Post Reporter
UPDATE: Drinks firm Britvic is to merge its British and Irish business units under a single leadership team as part of a new strategy aimed at accelerating growth.
14:38, Post Reporter
Dun-Laoghaire Rathdown is 15% professional; Dubliners have the most disposable income and nearly 4 in 10 people in the Border region have medical cards: new report
11:34, Post Reporter
UPDATE: European Union leaders will meet later today and the tax affairs of multinational companies will be top of the agenda.
11:23, Post Reporter
The Central Bank said the sale of property assets by the Nama and the former Anglo Irish Bank “may continue to exert general downward pressure on prices.”
10:47, Post Reporter
UPDATE: Permanent TSB’s customer deposits increased by more than €500m so far this year, following €1.6 billion growth in 2012.
10:21, Post Reporter
Dublin City Council has detailed a €4 million scheme to repave Dublin’s Grafton Street.
09:26, Post Reporter
Burger King Worldwide has announced a new partnership with Clonee, Co Meath based Kepak Group to supply its restaurants in Ireland and the UK with 100 per cent Irish and British beef.
08:52, Emma Kennedy, Personal Finance Correspondent
Eoin Clarke is Irish country manager of uSwitch.ie. He is 39 and single and lives in Dun Laoghaire Co. Dublin. He discussed his personal finances with Emma Kennedy.
08:37, Ian Kehoe
Nama Wine Lake was both informed and informative. For the most part, it made for compelling reading. It will be missed, writes Ian Kehoe.
08:26, Post Reporter
Ireland isn’t a tax haven and doesn’t offer “special deals for Apple or other companies,” IDA Ireland chief executive Barry O’Leary has said.
07:46, Post Reporter
Total Produce said it is sticking with its previously announced earnings target.
07:30, Post Reporter
Fastnet Oil & Gas has estimated that its Deep Kinsale prospect off the south coast could have have between 134 million and 691 million barrels of “risked potential resources” in place.
07:01, Fearghal O'Connor
The top business stories from today's newspapers.
UPDATE: Aer Arann is expected to announce an expansion of its services later today that will create 50 new jobs and double the airline’s passenger numbers to 2 million.
06:36, Post Reporter
UPDATE: Ashford Castle has been sold to British luxury hotel chain Red Carnation Hotels.
05:52, Bloomberg News
US Senate scrutiny of Apple’s tax strategies focused on a unit with $30bn in profit since 2009 that’s incorporated in Ireland, controlled in California, and doesn’t pay taxes in either place.
05:15, Post Reporter
The main business events for this week.
17:01, Fearghal O'Connor
The top business stories on Tuesday including Apple and Ireland, Croke Park 2, Glanbia's Moloney retires and a new boss for Shannon.
16:44, Fearghal O'Connor
Apple's tax strategy - with Ireland at its centre - is in the dock in the US senate today. We are covering the hearing live here.
16:41, Fearghal O'Connor
European stocks erased losses in the final minutes of trading as Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis president James Bullard said the US central bank should continue its bond-buying program.
14:55, Post Reporter
Siptu has said that its national executive council will convene on Thursday to consider the proposals on a Croke Park 2 agreement.
13:32, Pat Leahy, Political Editor
Two big things happening around Leinster House today - the latest on the public sector pay talks and the ongoing controversy surrounding justice minister Alan Shatter, writes Pat Leahy.
13:18, Nicola Cooke, Industry Correspondent
Today was D-day for the Croke Park II renegotiations and it appears, a rabbit of sorts has been pulled out of the hat, writes Nicola Cooke.
12:17, Fearghal O'Connor
Public Expenditure Minister Brendan Howlin has said that the public pay negotiations to agree a successor to the Croke Park agreement are “virtually ended”.
12:03, Fearghal O'Connor
Technical colleges mustn’t lose sight of their role in educating young people to get work, said education minister Ruairi Quinn.
11:05, Catherine O'Mahony
* Apple boss to tackle tax avoidance accusations. * Gilmore says Ireland is tax compliant. * Glanbia names Siobhan Talbot as new MD. * 1 million Vodafone Ireland customers have smartphones.
10:33, Post Reporter
European Commission President Jose Barroso has said "whole piles of cash" are never collected in taxes in Europe.
09:52, Post Reporter
Shannon Airport has appointed Neil Pakey, a former managing director of Liverpool's John Lennon Airport, as its new chief executive.
09:31, Post Reporter
Here's a flavour of what global news organisations are saying about allegations that Apple used its Irish units to avoid paying billions of dollars in tax.
08:48, Post Reporter
Ireland's tax system is "very transparent and very clear", Tanaiste Eamon Gilmore said today, following news that Apple has been accused of using its Irish business to avoid tax.
08:14, Post Reporter
European share prices were mixed with some markets slipping slightly off their highs this morning amid mixed messages from the latest crop of corporate earnings.
07:17, Post Reporter
Vodafone Ireland has reported a 29.2 per cent year-on-year increase in smartphone usage by its customers in the year to end-March.
07:07, Post Reporter
UPDATE: Glanbia has named its group finance director Siobhan Talbot as the successor to managing director John Moloney, who wishes to retire by year-end.
07:01, Post Reporter
Marks & Spencer said its annual profit fell 5.8 percent as consumers spent less on its fashion goods, even as food sales increased.
06:56, Post Reporter
A team of scientists have used plant samples collected in the mid-19th century to identify the pathogen that caused Ireland's devastating potato famine, BBC News reported today.
06:10, Post Reporter
"Although we expect market conditions to remain tough, we remain confident in our ability to deliver EPS growth for the financial year in line with expectations."
05:58, Bloomberg News
UPDATE: At least 91 people were killed, including 20 children, after a mile-wide tornado flattened an Oklahoma City suburb.
