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Ryanair is to “pivot” growth away from UK airports and instead focus on hubs in the European Union following the Brexit referendum result. The budget airline said the decision by Britain to quit the European Union was “a surprise and a disappointment”, adding: “We will pivot our growth away from UK airports and focus more… Continue reading Ryanair to focus on EU hubs after 'disappointment' of Brexit vote

Three hundred jobs are to be created with the expansion of a technology company. CoreHR, which makes software for human resources departments, says it will more than double its workforce over the coming three years.

Bord na Mona has claimed 96% of the power it generates by 2030 will be from renewables. The energy company has already committed to ending the industrial scale stripping of peat bogs by that time and it plans to double its green electricity over the next decade and a half.

A post-Brexit “hard” border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland must not be allowed to happen, political leaders from both countries have warned. People and goods going between the two nations have been able to move freely thanks to the Common Travel Area (CTA).

Five homeless families at risk of eviction from a hotel used for emergency accommodation are being told they will not be turfed out on to the street. Lynam’s Hotel on Dublin’s O’Connell Street is in receivership and the owners have been told it must be vacant by August 1.

The Irish border will be a special case in the Brexit negotiations, French president Francois Hollande has said. In Dublin for talks with Taoiseach Enda Kenny, Mr Hollande called for Britain to begin its split from the European Union sooner rather than later and for the discussions to be as short as possible.

The new presenters of Robot Wars have insisted they will put their own stamp on the rebooted BBC series. Irish star Angela Scanlon is co-presenting the new version alongside comedian Dara O’Briain.

Prime Minister Theresa May has pledged to find a “practical solution” to managing the Irish border following Brexit, insisting nobody wanted a return to barriers and check-points of the past. Mrs May said she recognised the particular circumstance presented by Northern Ireland’s land border with the Republic of Ireland – an EU member state –… Continue reading May says no return to 'borders of the past' in post-Brexit Northern Ireland

A mother and son have died after their car crashed into a tree, gardai said. The incident happened at Ballaghlea, Ballygar, in Co Galway at about 9.45pm on Sunday.

Ireland’s incredible economic growth figures – branded “leprechaun economics” – may leave the Government inadvertently looking for a pot of gold. Finance Minister Michael Noonan confirmed the 26.3% surge in GDP last year could ultimately see the state fork out another 280 million euro for being in the European Union.