The 25-year contract requires National Broadband Ireland (NBI) – the vehicle set up by winning bidder US firm Granahan McCourt – to deliver high-speed broadband to 542,000 mainly rural homes and premises

Net Results: Web pioneer Gerry McGovern warns about digital’s burden on the planet

Banker is campaigning for a seat on the Trinity College Dublin panel of the Seanad

Outgoing CFO Tim Kenny announced in June he planned to step down

Eir says 21 payphones have been removed this year amid anti-social behaviour

Planet Business: When it’s time for a change and maybe a song

Rule change allowed network owner Eircom charge rivals €170 when a customer switched

Company agrees to order sequestering assets over ‘wilful disobedience’ of earlier order

Cathal Magee hires top employment lawyer to file High Court action

Q&A: Dominic Coyle answers your personal finance questions

Siro boss John Keaney says telco is about to deepen operations in Cork and Galway and take the fight to Eir in Dublin’s suburbs

Football Association Premier League granted Ireland’s first ever order compelling ISPs

Most payphone calls are to domestic violence and homeless shelters, says ComReg

Organisation lodges proceedings against broadband providers in Ireland

Smart Money: What we aren’t we being told – and why?

Taoiseach reckons if you can’t get Opposition to support the plan, then make them own it

Q&A: Value of initiative to bring coverage to 100% of homes has been hotly contested

It can be hard to tell if an email or call is from a legitimate company or a fraudster so you need to keep your wits about you at all times

Junior Cert student Stephen Cassidy fractured ankle in fall near his Athlone home

Gray held same role in EirGrid between 2006 and 2013