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European shares flat as investors eye US earnings season
- Markets
- January 12, 2021, 18:59
European shares closed little changed yesterday as investors adopted caution ahead of US banking giants kicking off the country’s fourth-quarter earni(...)

Grafton Group acquires UK-based StairBox for £44m
- Construction
- December 1, 2020, 08:03
Building materials group and DIY retailer Grafton Group has acquired UK-based StairBox in a deal worth £44 million (€49 million). The Woodies DIY own(...)

Don’t panic-buy! Don’t panic-buy! How to spend your last hours before lockdown
- Health & Family
- October 20, 2020, 06:00
DON’T: Shop till you drop During the spring lockdown in Ireland, supermarkets quickly ran out of essential items such as pasta, rice and flour. Soap,(...)

Woodie’s enjoys record June despite dip in parent’s underlying sales
- Retail & Services
- July 9, 2020, 08:09
Grafton Group, the builders merchanting and DIY retailing group, said on Thursday that average underlying sales dipped by an annual 1.1 per cent in Ju(...)

Markets slump on dire ECB economic warning
- Markets
- April 30, 2020, 18:50
Markets slumped on Thursday as the European Central Bank (ECB) warned the euro zone economy could shrink 12 per cent while US jobless figures rose fas(...)

Death knell for dividends as firms try to save cash amid Covid-19 crisis
- Business
- March 27, 2020, 05:15
Having triggered the wiping of more than $25 trillion off the value of public companies globally in the past five weeks as it wreaks havoc on health s(...)

Grafton sells UK plumbing business for £67m
- Construction
- October 2, 2019, 07:35
Irish builders’ merchant and DIY group Grafton has sold its specialist plumbing and heating business Plumbase to UK firm Plumbing and Heating Investme(...)

Strong Chinese data boosts European markets
- Markets
- August 8, 2019, 19:54
European shares enjoyed their best day in around two months as markets rose on Thursday on good trade data from China. DUBLIN Ingredients and food (...)

Poor results, profit warnings and economic fears overshadow Europe’s markets
- Markets
- July 18, 2019, 18:49
Hopes that the European Central Bank could cut borrowing charges failed to lift markets as poor results, profit warnings and economic fears marred sto(...)

Using a travel agent: Peace of mind or needless expense?
- Consumer
- May 13, 2019, 02:00
Not long ago a woman got in touch with this page looking for help. She was planning to spend a portion of an inheritance on a once-in-a-lifetime holid(...)