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Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. Photograph: Stephen Lam/Reuters
Why Facebook wants to launch its own currency

If any company can take a cryptocurrency mainstream, it is Facebook. More than 2 billion people log into its family of apps and increasingly they wa(...)

Applegreen CEO Bob Etchingham. The company is due to report results on Tuesday. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Your business week: Will Applegreen remain unfazed by Brexit?

Monday Indicators: US housing market index (Mar). Tuesday Results: Applegreen, Mincon, FedEx. Indicators: Euro zone construction output (Jan), lab(...)

Sarah Davis-Goff. Photo by Bríd Donovan
The debut books and authors to look out for in 2019

Sarah Davis-Goff: Last Ones Left Alive (Tinder Press, publication March 7th) A girl called Orpen journeys from east to west across a post-apocalyptic (...)

Apostasy director Daniel Kokotajlo. “The film forced me to look at my own life.” Photograph: Curzon/Artificial Eye
Daniel Kokotajlo: ‘In the Jehovah’s Witnesses, family members are forced to shun eachother’

You wait for ages for a movie about the Jehovah’s Witnesses and then two come along at once. The Children’s Act, based on the novel by Ian McEwan and (...)

Carlow management Turlough O’Brien and Steven Poacher. Photograph: Ken Sutton/Inpho
Who is Steven Poacher? The man helping to plot Carlow’s rising

Manchester Metropolitan University, September 1997 Local band Oasis have just released their third studio album, Be Here Now, the then fastest-sellin(...)

Some argue there is an art to trading bitcoin but others are unconvinced bitcoin millionaires show investment nous, drawing parallels with gambling
Bitcoin: Who really owns it, the whales or small fry?

On the final day in his insurance job last week after 14 years in the sector, Donnie wore a T-shirt emblazoned with a rocket logo, the symbol for bitc(...)

A proper warm-up is essential before any vigorous exercise; and those who have never undertaken vigorous exercise before should consult their GP first
Run-rest-run: Quick exercise is slowly catching on

Slow food, slow radio and slow art have quickly assumed their rightful places in contemporary culture. By contrast, the concept of quick exercise is o(...)

Games-based learning must tailor cost to austere times, education experts warned

Irish and UK experts in games-based learning will be told that it’s not “ethical to spend vast amounts of money on what is effectively an untried and (...)