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Thousands of parents will be forced to deny their children basic school items this year as they struggle to fund the back-to-school spend. A majority of mums and dads say they will buy foreign goods over Irish-produced ones if it means reducing school costs. A survey commissioned by the Irish League of Credit Unions claims […]

The price of a house rose nationwide by almost €24,000 last year. And there are far fewer vacant properties than previously estimated, a new report has found. Dublin property prices shot up by €40,000 last year. The national average house price for the year was €250,188, an increase of €23,739 since last year, according to […]

Aldi’s Ballincollig store has become the first Aldi store in Ireland to donate 25,000 meals to local charities through the grocery store’s partnership with FoodCloud. FoodCloud’s innovative software platform allows stores to connect with local charities to ensure surplus food from grocery stores can be rescued. Since the partnership between Aldi and FoodCloud started in […]

KBC Bank Ireland are planning to reduce the interest rates on a number of deposit accounts in a matter of weeks. In a notification release on Tuesday, the bank announced that the cuts would be effective across four different accounts from August 4. Customers who own a Smart Access Demand Account will see the return […]

A global software platform that manages healthcare professionals’ clinics, consolidates patient records and “matchmakes” doctors with patients has chosen Cork as its European HQ. HealthKit, founded in Australia and which operates in 50 countries, already has more than 400 Irish-based GPs, psychologists and other health professionals using its practice-management software. The company, which is targeting […]

On This Day – also known as Facebook Memories – is one of the social network’s most divisive features. For some, it’s a fun daily reminder of something silly, important or embarrassing that you or somebody close to you considered worthy of being published online. It can even put you back in touch with old […]

The era of driverless cars – or fully autonomous vehicles (AVs) – is near and will dramatically transform how we drive. The technology is well advanced and we already see automated features built into new cars, such as automatic braking, adaptive cruise control, and lane-drift prevention. The test driving of fully AVs (which require no […]

Telecoms operators are working with local authorities to identify and remedy mobile blackspots. Speaking at the launch of a report from the Government’s Mobile Phone and Broadband Taskforce, Communications Minister Denis Naughten also said that every local authority now had a broadband officer “as a single point of contact” for the public and telecoms operators […]

Mario Draghi has said policymakers are still waiting for inflation to catch up with the economy’s recovery, as they put off any discussion on tapering stimulus until after the summer. “We are finally experiencing a robust recovery where we only have to wait for wages and prices to follow course,” the European Central Bank (ECB) […]

Traffic guarantee payments totalling €4.4m by Transport Infrastructure Ireland (TII) to the firm operating the €800m Limerick tunnel helped the company record an operating profit of €9.4m last year. New accounts filed by Directroute (Limerick) Ltd show that the firm recorded a 38pc increase in operating profits last year going from €6.8m to €9.4m. Revenues […]