Toulon’s  Delon Armitage dives in for the decisive try after outrunning  Brock James of Clermont Auvergne in the Heineken Cup final  at the Aviva Stadium in Dublin. Photograph: Stu Forster/Getty Images

Toulon 16 Clermont Auvergne 15: Did Clermont Auvergne freeze once again in sight of the winning post? That’s the accusation they’ll face as they co(...)

One of the most senior managers at Google Ireland was dismissed after her London-based superior determined she wa(...)

An employee counts Syrian pound notes at the Syrian central bank in Damascus. The Syrian pound has lost about 60 per cent of its value against the US dollar in two years. Photograph: Reuters/Khaled al-Hariri

Syria is at war but Damascus continues to function. Fruit and vegetables arrive from the countryside every day at the main wholesale market. (...)

Uncertainty in the workplace is increasing in the Netherlands, King Willem-Alexander has acknowledged. Photograph: Michel Porro/Getty Images

With the third highest inflation rate in the EU, one household in seven in the Netherlands is unable to pay its bills, while the main earners a(...)

A decade ago Europe was, as it is now, deeply divided. The cause then was not money, as now, but war. About half of the EU’s member countries o(...)

Germany calling: Enda Kenny at a press conference in Berlin. Photograph: Sean Gallup/Getty

A senior Fine Gael figure smiles as he muses on Enda Kenny’s reluctance to fill the vacancy for junior agriculture minister, a post that has be(...)

In the first three months of the year exports of chemical and pharmaceutical products fell by more than 11 per cent on the same period in 2012

The value of exports rose modestly for the second consecutive month in March, but foreign(...)

Google’s European, Middle East and African sales headquarters on Barrow Street, Dublin. Photograph: Paul McErlane/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The ongoing political controversy over the level of tax being paid by Google in its major European markets could have serious implications for (...)

People in Cyprus continue to face restrictions on the amount of money they are permitted to withdraw from bank accounts. Photograph: Bogdan Cristel/Reuters

Two months after the Cyprus bailout, capital controls are still in place on the Mediterranean island. The phrase is one of the many muted, unde(...)

Paddy Cosgrave at the Dublin Web Summit

The recent spate of technology companies opening European headquarters here and expanding pre-existing Irish operations is yet more confirmatio(...)

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