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Britain’s Restaurant Group, the struggling owner of the Joe’s Kitchen chain, said it identified 33 underperforming sites for sale or closure as a part of its ongoing strategy review after a turbulent year. The company, that ousted its chief executive earlier this month, said it would take action on pricing and add back popular dishes […]

Apple has received planning permission for an expansion at its European HQ in Cork that is to deliver 1,000 jobs. An Bord Pleanála gave the expansion plan the go-ahead after dismissing an appeal against the development by local residents. The plan by the iPhone maker comprises a four-storey office block and a 752-space car park […]

Irish banks can ignore the Central Bank’s tough new mortgage rules when they lend to customers abroad, the Irish Independent has learned. Banks with UK operations, for example, can lend mortgages to their customers there without being bound by the home loan rules introduced by the Central Bank last year. The Central Bank’s loan-to-income (LTI) […]

Revenue at Irish homebuilder Cairn Homes increased to €16m in the first half of the year after the company concluded its site acquisition phase. The firm also reported strong progress on the Ulster Bank Project Clear portfolio. Cairn said it had realised €32m in proceeds from settlements and asset sales with nine sites (€126.1m) transferred […]

Ireland has moved up to seventh place in a global ranking of the world’s most innovative economies. Switzerland retained its lead in the Global Innovation Index 2016 which is published by Cornell University in the US, French business school Insead and the World Intellectual Property Organisation, a United Nations agency. War-torn Yemen ranked last. Ireland’s […]

The UK vote to pull out of the European Union has done little to derail the Eurozone economy, it seems, with activity inching up to a seven-month high this month, a new survey has shown. Even the French private sector received a boost – despite the terror attack in Nice and brutal killing of a […]

UK manufacturing exports rose to their highest level in two years in August, boosted in part by weaker sterling. While the dramatically weakened pound is hitting Irish companies looking to sell their wares into the UK market, Britain’s factories are getting an export boost. But output growth eased back a little on the three months […]

At an English country mansion last month, lawyers for Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) (RBS.L) sat down with representatives of angry shareholders to broker an end to what may end up being the costliest case in British legal history. The meeting at The Grove, an 18-century estate near London that served as the secret World […]

Ibec, has warned that Dublin will lose out in the global competition to attract jobs and investment if Dublin City Council approves a plan to lower the maximum height allowed for ‘low rise’ residential buildings in its inner city and suburbs. In its submission to the Draft Dublin City Development Plan, due to be published […]

The Brexit vote is not the end for the EU, Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi has pledged as he held talks with his German and French counterparts on the future of the European project. Smaller EU countries, such as Ireland, weren’t involved in the gathering of the Eurozone’s three big economies, although all 27 remaining […]