Will Goodbody

Strong demand for car loans propelled the value of personal loan drawdowns to the highest level recorded during the second quarter of the year.

There was a sustained uptick in activity in the services sector last month, the latest AIB Ireland Services Purchasing Managers Index shows.

Dublin Airport looks set to breach its 32m a year passenger cap next month, it has warned. It follows another month when the number of passengers using the two terminals reached a record level.

Over half of Irish businesses are now using electricity from renewable energy sources, new research has found.

Autonomous marine drone startup, Ulysses Ecosystem Engineering, has raised $2m in pre-seed funding. The oversubscribed round was led by Lowercarbon Capital.

The starting gun has been fired on the campaign for Election 2024. But in reality, among the business community at least, campaigning got under way months ago.

€1.8m is been invested by around a dozen Dublin and Cork publicans in a new brewery that will launch its first products today.

Four out of every five people in Ireland do not have money set aside for their funeral, nor have they arrangements made for it, new research has found.

Motorists will have to provide their driver number to their insurer when taking out a policy from next year.

The competition watchdog has said it is concerned that the proposed purchase of mobile network tower firms Cellnex Ireland and Cignal Infrastructure by Phoenix Tower International (PTI) could reduce competition in the sector.