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Vincent Boland: Fifty years on from joining the EEC, we have many reasons to celebrate

In 1973, Ireland was a dismal place with a declining population and poor life expectancy; in the 50 years since as Europeans, we have become richer, healthier, we live longer and are better educated

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Vincent Boland: Breaking up is hard to do in the case of Musk and his unloved new Twitter toy

The unedifying Twitter saga has already exposed the Tesla tycoon as a clown, but regardless of how the case plays out, the rules around mergers and acquisitions may have to be rewritten

Twitter shares slump as Musk deal backtrack sets scene for legal battle

Shares in Musk’s Tesla rose in US premarket trading on Monday

Tesla’s Irish turnover hits €43.5m as Model 3 sales continue to spike

Irish arm of Elon Musk-founded company reported a slight drop in profits as it continued to expand its operations in this country

The Big Interview

The Big Interview: ‘There is no silver bullet to solving plastic pollution. But there is a potential for real change’ – Niall Dunne of Polymateria

If the chief executive of Polymateria has his way, his company – which makes fully biodegradable plastics that break down in under a year – will be instrumental in reducing industrial pollution in the planet’s oceans. But not everyone wants him to succeed

Motoring: BMW answers Musk with brilliant electric i4

The impressive new i4 is a fitting reaction to the Tesla chief’s recent jibes about ‘legacy automakers’

In Santa Barbara, a ‘tech billionaire’ and candidate for Senator is taking aim at Tesla Motors

Dan O’Dowd, the chief executive of Green Hills Software running a self-funded campaign for California senate, has bought millions of dollars worth of TV ad space across the USA with one focus: deriding the autonomous vehicles produced by Elon Musk’s company

Matt Cooper: Musk’s Twitter move may give him even more reach than old-style media moguls

The Tesla tycoon, who joined the board of Twitter last week, is a force of nature who may well seek to bend the social media platform to his will

Sales of Tesla vehicles in Ireland pass 2,000 mark

Since Elon Musk’s firm entered the Irish market in 2007, the number of its electric cars on the road has increased for the fourth year running

Motoring: Tesla throws a curveball with the SUV-ish Model Y

The long-awaited follow-up to the popular Model 3 is spacious and generous on range, but with surprisingly uptight suspension

Tesla rides high on investors’ extreme leap of faith in tech future

If Elon Musk’s company does to cars what Amazon did to shopping, then the trillion-dollar valuation may be justified

Are we facing another dotcom crash?

Buoyed by a surge in retail traders, tech stocks boomed. Then the crash came, wiping out investors and entire businesses. Now, decades later, tech stock fever is again in full swing. Will today’s boom will be a rerun of the 2001 dotcom bust?

Test drive: Model 3 update shows why Tesla is leading the field on electric vehicles

There is still nothing on the market quite like this EV and it feels like all the sports saloon anyone needs

Vincent Boland: It’ll take more than Musk’s $1.5bn to demystify bitcoin

Cryptocurrencies have their zealous admirers, including the Tesla chief, but critics insist they have no practical uses and facilitate online fraud and tax evasion

Winners and losers as pandemic transforms corporate landscape

It was a good year for Elon Musk, with Tesla now more valuable than almost all its auto industry rivals combined

The year of the black swan: how some sectors have spun darkness into gold

The pandemic has meant catastrophe for many sectors and companies, but others have profited – some record-breakingly so