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Donal MacNamee

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Aviation

Airport staff offered €2,000 bonuses in bid to avoid more holiday chaos

DAA move aims to avoid repeat of last year’s missed flights due to monster queues at security clearance
  • Donal MacNamee
  • March 19, 2023
Education

Degrees of separation: academics divided over opening up of elite Trinity social club

College officials want to change the rules of the SCR, a social club open only to high-ranking staff members, but some academics are opposed to the move
  • Donal MacNamee
  • March 19, 2023
Jobs

Growing number of Citi bank staff turn to union as redundancy fears rise

Financial Services Union has had increase in membership from the bank’s Dublin office even as company denies suggestions that a hiring freeze is in place
  • Donal MacNamee
  • March 18, 2023
Editor's Pick

Project Clover: How Ireland finds itself in an awkward position on TikTok

The Chinese-owned company is in damage-control mode, with Ireland at the centre of its efforts to assuage fears of misuse of users’ data
  • Donal MacNamee
  • March 18, 2023
Energy

Danish firm Ørsted acquires Carlow solar farm that could power 56,000 homes

But the company warned the government more investment was needed in the national grid ‘or we are racing towards a roadblock’
  • Donal MacNamee
  • March 16, 2023
Housing

Average rent for new Dublin tenancies rises to €2,022 per month

Figures from the Residential Tenancies Board show the average national rent was in new tenancies was €1,482
  • Donal MacNamee
  • March 16, 2023
BP Exclusive

50 recruitment staff being cut at Meta’s Irish arm in global layoffs

Impacted recruiters were informed this morning of the planned redundancies, with further cuts in the company’s technology and business divisions likely in the coming months
  • Donal MacNamee
  • March 15, 2023
Jobs

Strong labour market should ‘absorb’ any job cuts at Meta, Micheál Martin says

Tánaiste says Irish firms are still reporting strong demand for staff and calls for perspective around scale of job losses given scale of hiring in technology sector over recent years
  • Donal MacNameeand
  • Killian Woods
  • March 15, 2023
BP Exclusive

Intel makes fresh offer of unpaid leave to thousands of staff at Irish operation

The company has renewed an offer to manufacturing staff under which they can take up to three months of unpaid time off as part of moves to achieve ‘cost efficiency’
  • Donal MacNamee
  • March 14, 2023
Tech

Michael McGrath sets up emergency group to monitor impact of Silicon Valley Bank collapse on Irish firms

The Minister for Finance said there is limited impact on the Irish financial system but that some companies may be affected
  • Donal MacNamee
  • March 14, 2023
Work

Keegan orders managers to clamp down on remote work at Dublin City Council

Council chief executive wrote to senior managers in January reminding them that there can be no easing ‘in any circumstances’ of rules requiring staff to be in the office at least three days a week
  • Donal MacNamee
  • March 10, 2023
Tech Jobs

Google workers’ performances since Covid-19 pandemic to be reviewed as part of Irish job cuts

The tech giant will assess workers’ ratings as one of the criteria that will decide who is laid off, as fears grow that it will impose compulsory redundancies on low performers
  • Donal MacNamee
  • March 9, 2023
Work

Hundreds of plumbers to strike at Intel and Pfizer sites despite employer’s bid for injunction

Jones Engineering had tried to get High Court action to stop industrial action, but strikes are to proceed in a dispute over travel allowance for plumbers
  • Donal MacNamee
  • March 9, 2023
Companies

Ladbrokes owner Entain books 13% earnings jump but warns of ‘regulatory headwinds’ in 2023

Company reported overall revenues of £4.3bn but its online trading suffered last year as a result of regulatory issues the UK and in the Netherlands
  • Donal MacNamee
  • March 9, 2023
business

Irish Continental Group enjoys bumper year as ferry revenues rise to €400m

Transport group reports 74 per cent jump in overall revenues and pays out €24m in dividends to its shareholders but says it is ‘concerned’ by the lack of checks on goods arriving into Northern Ireland from Britain
  • Donal MacNamee
  • March 9, 2023
Politics

Coveney contacted TikTok over data security after European Commission ban

The Minister for Enterprise spoke to the company about its data protection practices after it insisted it would never share users’ data with the Chinese state
  • Donal MacNamee
  • March 9, 2023
Tech

TikTok contacting Irish politicians in plan to reassure Europeans over data security

The Chinese-owned social media app is attempting to convince authorities it would never share users’ data with the Chinese government
  • Donal MacNamee
  • March 8, 2023
Transport

Dublin ranked just behind London as second-most congested city in Europe

Research shows drivers are spending half an hour to drive 10km as the government delays a plan aimed at reducing the number of cars on roads
  • Donal MacNamee
  • March 8, 2023
Economics

Inflation to keep easing in 2023 even as household incomes recover

New Central Bank bulletin says the government should ‘unwind’ cost of living supports in order to reduce inflationary pressures on the economy
  • Donal MacNamee
  • March 8, 2023
Gambling

Former Paddy Power staffer to ‘keep scaling’ new betting firm with online launch ahead of Cheltenham

AK Bets has been active on Irish racetracks over recent years but founder Anthony Kaminskas wants to grow its customer base and believes the new website and apps will have an ‘astronomical’ impact on its revenues
  • Donal MacNamee
  • March 7, 2023

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