Una McCaffrey

Una McCaffrey

Una McCaffrey has been writing about business and finance since 1998. She joined the business desk of The Irish Times in 2001 and covers most aspects of the sector, specialising in interviews. She won the Best Interview award in the 2011 UCD Smurfit School Business Journalist Awards.

Ryanair finished the day 6.6 cent ahead at ¤6.96
Quiet, mostly positive day on the markets

Iseq up 0.15 per cent on fairly low volumes

PR problems for Dalton Philips

Helping farmers to help themselves

Irish debt is dead, long live Irish debt

Stylishly relaxed: Air Canada Rouge uniforms
The skies are turning Rouge

AIB standard variable customers have absorbed a rise of 1.4 percentage points in their interest rate since the start of 2012, while the ECB has cut its main rate four times in the past year and a half. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
Mortgage rates diverge from European Central Bank rates

Average Irish mortgage rate has been moving out of sync with key ECB rate

AIB said yesterday it was adding 0.4 percentage points to its standard variable mortgage rate. Photograph: Cathal McNaughton/Reuters
Gilmore rejects calls to intervene in AIB rate hike

Sharp criticism of bank as 70,000 householders face average €300 extra Bill

AIB Headquarters in Ballsbridge Dublin. Photograph: Bryan O'Brien
AIB rate hike to hit tens of thousands

New rate comes into effect in June

Keeping ahead of the curve in the beauty business

Rubbing shoulders with Halle Berry is just part of the job for Revlon chief executive, Irishman Alan Ennis

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A firefighter tries to put out a fire at a plantation in Rokan Hilir district, Riau province, Indonesia. Riau authorities have deployed two fire brigade teams in Bengkalis district and Dumai to control peatland fires, Antara News Agency reported. The fires are being blamed for dense smog in neighbouring Singapore. Photograph: Aswaddy Hamid/Reuters Singaporean smog and Indonesian fires
This is Nanoweek 2013, and to mark it an exhibition, NanoArt 13, of 100 ‘nanolandscapes’ (research images, at a scale thousands of times smaller than a grain of salt) is being held at Trinity College Dublin, the Tryskell Arts Centre in Cork and the Tyndall National Institute at UCC. Here is a selection of the images. Above, 'Insect egg on a Leaf' by Patrick Carolan, Tyndall National Institute. Insect egg on underside of leaf. Stuff you never get to see

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James Gandolfini is dead

The bulky, charismatic American actor, star of The Sopranos, has passed away at the age of 51
Pionneer of London GAA who wrote first draft of history

London will make history if they beat Leitrim in the Connacht SFC semi-final on Sunday. Monaghan man Packie Hughes was involved the first and last time they won a championship game in 1977

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