European stock markets closed deep in red today, as mounting fears about the ability of Spain and Greece to deal with debts and fix their ...

IBM, which currently employs more than 3,000 in Ireland, is to create 200 jobs at a new international services centre in Mulhuddart.

Facebook shares hover around break-even as its leap of 12% in opening trade today came crashing down.

50 people are to lose their jobs at the Glanbia facility at Inch in Co. Wexford following the company’s decision to end it’s franchise agreement ...

World oil prices slid to new multi-month lows today as the market was rattled once again by concern about the outlook for demand linked to ...

The terms of the redundancy agreement that will see up to 1,000 staff leave Bank of Ireland have been agreed.

IBOA The Finance Union is to consider the mediator’s recommendation on AIB job losses of up to 2,500 staff. However, the IBOA is seeking an ...

Ratings agency Moody’s has cut the ratings of 16 Spanish banks by between one and three notches.

Lacklustre growth in emerging European economies could turn into recession if the euro zone crisis escalates, the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has said ...

British Prime Minister David Cameron backed new French President Francois Hollande’s deficit plans as the leaders prepared to meet for the first time in Washington ...

Speaking today Sinn Féin jobs spokesperson Peadar Tóibín TD said “Pat Rabbitte has admitted what everyone already knew, that this government is out of their ...

Sinn Féin Deputy Leader Mary Lou McDonald, canvassing in East Wall in her Dublin Central constituency this morning said “There has been a lot of ...

An Phoblacht News for Sinn Féin – May 18th, 2012. In this edition Sinn Féin challenges Minister for Finance to debate Austerity Treaty; Britain asked ...

Sinn Féin leader, Gerry Adams TD, today announced a Dáil motion to be proposed next week, with the support of over 50 opposition TDs, to ...

Speaking today Sinn Féin President Gerry Adams said that “the government’s yes campaign has moved from threats to insults”. The Louth TD told the media ...

Sinn Féin TD Pearse Doherty has described as outrageous comments from Enterprise Minister Richard Bruton that he would ask Europe if Ireland could vote again ...

Speaking in the Dáil today, Sinn Féin Defence Spokesperson Deputy Jonathan O’Brien questioned the Minister for Defence Alan Shatter on the practice of prescribing anti-malarial ...

Sinn Féin spokesperson on Housing Dessie Ellis TD has called for increased measures to equality proof housing policy in order to insure and end to ...

Sinn Féin TD for Cavan/Monaghan Caoimhghín Ó Caoláin today raised in the Dáil the need for an independent international inquiry into the Dublin and Monaghan ...

Sinn Fein’s Padraig MacLochlainn has said today that “No is the European answer to the Austerity Treaty.”

Just three weeks to go to the referendum and the ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ campaigns are still looking for the ignition switch that will engage the ...

It’s an interesting day on the Irish Times opinion page as Vincent Browne and Terence McDonough set out the anti-Yes position on the fiscal treaty, ...

Ray D’Arcy courted controversy this weekend by claiming that the “Catholic Church, in many ways, has fucked up this country”. This was met with by ...

  According to the latest national opinion poll in the Sunday Times, up to half the electorate doesn’t understand what the Stability Treaty, on which ...

The IMF has published a self-evaluation of its massive lending program to Iceland — a program which Iceland has now exited. Although a little technical, ...

After 3000+ pages of the Mahon Tribunal Report, one finding is clear: it’s all the fault of Denis O’Brien. Soon it will come out that ...

Before I begin I should point out my expertise is not in nuclear physics so this is not an “expert” opinion but neither is it ...

This afternoon, Taoiseach Enda Kenny announced to the Dail that a referendum to ratify the European Stability Treaty will take place. This follows advice from ...

Draghi, not Rosenstock. Here’s the President of the European Central Bank in an interview with the Wall Street Journal discussing the fiscal compact: Many things ...

This  Government would probably gleefully order the ritual sacrifice of half a dozen of its junior Ministers at the foot of the Papal Cross in ...

US internet company Yahoo said it has reached a deal to sell part of its stake in China’s biggest internet company Alibaba Group.

South Korea urges North Korea to follow a ‘different path to peace’ at the start of talks with the US and Japan, amid fears of ...

An annular eclipse, in which the Moon partially blocks out light from the Sun, has moved across east Asia and the western US.

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Early results in the Dominican Republic’s presidential election put the candidate of the governing party, Danilo Medina, in the lead.

Prime Minister David Cameron believes the Greek elections amount to a referendum on Greece’s membership of the euro, sources close to him say.

Childcare in the UK needs to be overhauled to make it more affordable, a report by MP Elizabeth Truss, for the CentreForum think tank, suggests.

President Obama tells a Nato summit there are “hard days ahead” in Afghanistan as the alliance prepares to withdraw troops at the end of 2014.

The 29 Chinese fishermen and three boats seized in the Yellow Sea by unidentified North Koreans are free, Chinese reports say.

Nationalist Tomislav Nikolic is elected president of Serbia beating incumbent Boris Tadic in a run-off vote, and vowing to stay on the EU path.