John Burns

An independent review of the National Digital Research Centre (NDRC), submitted to the Department of Communications last year but only published today, is overwhelmingly positive about its operation.

Book sales are down 7pc this year in Ireland, according to new figures released by Nielsen, falling from 11.2 million copies to 10.4 million.

Three Ireland is to refund €3.76m to about 14,000 customers after admitting to breaches of the roaming regulations

Journalists are usually on the guest list for business launches, and coaxed into giving favourable coverage to a new firm by the application of copious amounts of free drink.

Sonoma County is showing the way on renewable energy and controlling carbon emissions.

The pile of savings that Irish households are keeping in banks, already standing at over €156bn, is set to grow further as the population ages, a leading Central Bank economist has pointed out.

Households here have saved just over 14pc of their incomes in the last quarter

Photo: Getty Wholesale electricity prices rose by 18.2pc in the month to November, and were almost 19pc higher year-on-year, according to data published by the Central Statistics Office (CSO).

New mortgage lending does not appear to be driving the recent double-digit price inflation in the property market, the Central Bank’s financial stability committee has concluded.

The High Court has also approved the sale of 'certain assets' of Homebase in Ireland to The Range