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Animal welfare: pigs like edible, chewable, investigable and manipulable diversions. Illustration: Michael Viney

Happy as a pig on straw: the difference good animal husbandry makes

Environment
September 23, 2017

Bored pigs can start biting each other’s tails. It’s not hard to enrich their lives

Former secretary general of the European Commission Catherine Day (left) at the opening of the 40th Dublin Economic Workshop in Wexford Friday with Rory Montgomery, second secretary general at the Department of Foreign Affairs and director of the European Union division, with particular responsibility for the EU-UK negotiations, and economics blogger Frances Coppola. Photograph: Conor McCabe Photography.

FF’s Donnelly calls for Whitaker-type plan to deal with fallout from Brexit

Economy
September 22, 2017

Fianna Fáil TD says Ireland is facing unprecedented economic challanges

Secondary students in Ireland have longer summer holidays and shorter school terms than most other countries in Europe, according to a European Commission report. Photo: iStock

Irish secondary students have longer holidays than most in Europe

Education
September 22, 2017

Only France, Cyprus and Greece have a shorter school year than here

The European Commission suggested that EU plans to harmonise tax rules across the bloc could be used to incorporate new rules on digital taxation. Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA Wire

EU urged to push ahead with digital tax reform

Technology
September 21, 2017

Commission paper set outs roadmap for reforming how digital firms should be taxed

Ibec’s Fergal O’Brien: Ireland has missed out on an additional €7 billion in fiscal space by failing to apply the EU’s fiscal rules. Photograph: Eric Luke/The Irish Times

Government ‘misses out’ on extra €7bn in fiscal space

Economy
September 20, 2017

Ibec’s Fergal O’Brien claims EU fiscal rules not being applied correctly to Ireland

China’s president Xi Jinping. The OECD ranks China 59th out of 62 countries in terms of its openness to foreign direct investment. Photograph: Bloomberg

European business group calls on China to open economy

Economy
September 19, 2017

Forthcoming Communist Party meeting unlikely to yield meaningful reform

An engineer monitors a cyber threat map. “Businesses are divided in two. Those who believe they have been attacked. And those who don’t know they have been attacked.” Photograph: Erdem Sahin/EPA

European Commission sets up new agency to fight cyber-crime

Europe
September 19, 2017

Beefed-up EU Cybersecurity Agency will share threat knowledge to prevent cyber attacks

Green Reit chairman Gary Kennedy, director Stephen Vernon and chief executive Pat Gunne. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw

Brexit is building into a ‘sweet spot’ for Green Reit

Commercial Property
September 19, 2017

The future looks bright for Irish property group but there are clouds on the horizon

Greenpeace members protest against diesel emissions. According to T&E, if one takes a measurement of a car’s whole-life carbon dioxide emissions, as opposed to merely localised exhaust pipe emissions, diesel cars actually cause the emission of more CO2 than an equivalent petrol car.

Researchers say diesel worse for CO2 than petrol

Transport & Tourism
September 18, 2017

Research by Transport & Environment finds that diesel cars emit more CO2 over their well-to-wheel lifetime than petrol cars

Taoiseach Leo Varadkar photographed at Government Buildings, Dublin, September 17th, 2017. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill/The Irish Times

Varadkar stresses public service reforms over extra spending

Politics
September 18, 2017

Interview: Number one priority for Budget 2018 is to balance the books, says Taoiseach

Michael O’Flynn’s company and other developers complained about Nama to Brussels after the agency said it would finance the construction of 20,000 homes. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons

Retooling of Nama should not precede EU ruling, developer says

Construction
September 16, 2017

Plan to repurpose agency as housebuilder should be put on hold, Michael O’Flynn says

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe will attend an Ecofin council meeting later this week where the EU’s economic future will be discussed. Photograph: Gareth Chaney Collins

Government concerned on proposed EU fiscal integration

Politics
September 14, 2017

State supportive of banking and capital markets unions but wary of losing authority

The Independents, including John Halligan, claimed a great victory when Government agreed to a review of corporation tax. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

The tricky politics of Ireland’s corporation tax

Politics
September 14, 2017

The changing mood towards the State’s tax regime presents opportunities and dangers

Corporate tax: The need for reform

Editorial
September 14, 2017

In the past tax policymaking here has at times been too beholden to the demands of corporate Ireland

Data power: Facebook acquired messaging service WhatsApp in 2014. Photograph: Bloomberg

Tech mergers may need examination outside normal competition law - LSE professor

Technology
September 13, 2017

Clearing of Facebook’s WhatsApp deal ignored ‘critical’ data issue, says Orla Lynskey

European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker (right) shakes hands with former UK Independence Party leader Nigel Farage, before addressing the members of the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Photograph: Jean-Francois Badias/AP Photo

EU should enforce rules to prevent vetoes on tax reforms - Juncker

Europe
September 13, 2017

EU finance ministers to meet to discuss higher taxes on multinationals like Google and Amazon

European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker gave his annual State of the Union address at the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Wednesday. Photograph: Christian Hartmann/ Reuters

State of the EU: Looking to the post-Brexit future

Editorial
September 13, 2017

For the first time in a decade, Juncker’s trademark bullishness has some justification

Paschal Donohoe: looks set to reimpose the cap on tax write-downs companies can claim relating to intellectual property assets. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons

Ireland needs to stay ahead of the corporate tax reform game

Economy
September 13, 2017

Paschal Donohoe must resist calls from some of the Ireland Inc lobby to slow reform

Gardasil: the human papilloma virus vaccine protects against cervical and other forms of cancer. Photograph: Voisin/Phanie/Rex/Shutterstock

Almost 650 girls needed medical intervention after HPV vaccine

Health
September 12, 2017

Watchdog says Gardasil’s benefits to 230,000 girls outweigh potential risks

Peter Tyndall with his grandson Ethan Walsh on his fishing boat ‘Shenandoah’ at Galway Docks. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy

Brexit expected to increase pressure on EU’s rich fishing stock

Science
September 11, 2017

The good news is there is still a considerable resource left to protect, according to new research by Irish marine biologist Dr Peter Tyndall

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