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Bank of Ireland head of products John O’Beirne said the move would provide consumers with a greater degree of choice.

Bank of Ireland mortgages to be available through brokers

Financial Services
October 16, 2018

Proposition is being launched initially with 10 brokers based in the Dublin area

The shortfall for the euro zone’s 35 biggest and most complex banking groups stood at €125 billion last year. Photograph: Francois Lenoir/Reuters

EU ‘needs another crisis’ to finish banking union

Financial Services
October 16, 2018

Multibillion-euro bank backstop and deposit insurance scheme still outstanding

The risks of antimicrobial resistance is further complicated by the lack of development of new antibiotics by pharmaceutical companies.

Drug-resistant bugs could cause more deaths than cancer by 2050

Science
October 16, 2018

‘A post-antibiotic era, means, in effect, an end to modern medicines as we know it’

Italian students protest in Rome against the policies of the right-wing Five Star Movement-League government. Photograph: Massimo Percossi/EPA

Italian cabinet due to approve budget as EU and markets fret

Economy
October 15, 2018

Plan to raise debt to fund basic income and earlier retirement draws ire in Brussels

Secret plans to allow an extension of the transition period in the Brexit withdrawal agreement could result in the UK living under all EU rules well beyond the 21 months so far negotiated.

Brexit plans could see UK tied to EU rules well beyond end of 2020

Politics
October 13, 2018

Secret plans designed to convince Foster that backstop will not come into force

DUP leader Arlene Foster and deputy leader Nigel Dodds: with Conservatives, they argue the backstop would split the North economically and constitutionally from the rest of the UK. Photograph: Michael McHugh/PA

Post-Brexit joint EU-UK working group for North being considered

Europe
October 12, 2018

Brussels seeking to keep North aligned with customs union and parts of single market

So far this year, 27.5% of Irish electricity production has come from wind energy. Photograph: iStock

Conference hears of ‘monumental’ opportunity for rural Ireland

Energy & Resources
October 11, 2018

Growth in wind energy since 2000 has cost €1 per household per year

Taoiseach is ‘satisfied so far’ over Naughten’s meetings with broadband bidder

Politics
October 11, 2018

Anger grows over Minister’s contacts with lead bidder for State-backed €500m plan

The Supreme Court is fast-tracking Facebook’s appeal. Photograph: Reuters

Facebook Supreme Court appeal to be heard in December

Technology
October 11, 2018

Social network wants to halt data-transfer referral to European court

The Berlaymont in Brussels. Photograph: iStock

EU jobs seem to have lost their lustre for Ireland’s young

Europe
October 11, 2018

Europe Letter: Ireland is severely under-represented among younger officials

Carwyn Jones, first minister of Wales, in Dún Laoghaire, Co Dublin.

Welsh first minister fears Brexit ‘fudge’ on Border solution

Europe
October 10, 2018

Carwyn Jones concerned about temporary deal as EU-UK talks intensify in Brussels

The Public Health (Alcohol) Bill has finally been passed by the Oireachtas. File photograph: Kirsty O’Connor/PA Wire

Alcohol Bill is finally passed by the Oireachtas

Oireachtas
October 10, 2018

Legislation on minimum unit pricing clears all stages six years after it was first mooted

A portrait of murdered Bulgarian television journalist Viktoria Marinova during a candlelit vigil in the city of Ruse. Photograph: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images

Suspect charged over rape and murder of Bulgarian journalist

Europe
October 10, 2018

Country’s PM rejects fears over press freedom after death of Viktoria Marinova

Google is seen as key target of the digital tax proposal. Photograph: PA

EU lawyers question European Commission’s digital tax plan

Economy
October 9, 2018

Republic strongly opposed to proposal as it stands

Old Dublin Road between Dundalk and Newry: under the EU version of the backstop, potentially dangerous goods and public health products would have to meet EU rules, requiring Brussels to check compliance post-Brexit. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien

Civil servants may monitor goods made in North post-Brexit

Irish News
October 8, 2018

Brussels supervision of product compliance necessary, NI businesses figures told by EU

Traders working on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Photograph: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg

Irish share index falls to 22-month low on Italian budget fears

Markets
October 8, 2018

Iseq fell 1% to 6,388.99 while pan-European Stoxx index at lowest close in six months

Children are seen during climate march prior to the opening session of the COP23 UN Climate Change Conference 2017. Photograph: Wolfgang Rattay/File Photo/Reuters

Climate change targets are merely aspirational for too many

Environment
October 8, 2018

Science never clearer and UN report will inform global policy for next decade

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe. The Government is opposed to proposals from the European Commission for a digital services tax. Photograph: Tom Honan

Ireland join three other member states to oppose EU digital tax plan

Economy
October 8, 2018

Ireland, the Czech Republic, Finland and Sweden say tax would contravene bilateral treaties

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has dismissed any suggestion that Tuesday’s budget will be an election budget. File photograph: Brian Lawless/PA Wire

Budget 2019: Leo Varadkar confirms cuts in USC and income tax

Politics
October 6, 2018

Taoiseach insists an 'election budget' is not in the offing

Crayfish plague: no wonder the Irish species is white-clawed

Environment
October 6, 2018

A deadly American import is threatening the final extinction of the white-clawed crayfish

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