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Saturday 19 January 2019

Shares in Ryanair sank below €10 for the first time in four years yesterday after the airline issued its second profit warning in three months. Photo: Reuters

Ryanair's shares touch four-year low on fresh profit fears

Shares in Ryanair sank below €10 for the first time in four years yesterday after the airline issued its second profit warning in three months.

An artist’s impression of the new Salesforce Tower in Dublin. Photo: PA

Commercial Property

Salesforce unveils 1,500 Dublin jobs and 'tower' in record deal

Salesforce, the business software company, is to add 1,500 jobs to its Dublin operation at a new 'urban campus' in the docklands.

Irish oil and gas explorer Providence Resources is a step closer to drilling a prospect off the south-west coast. Stock photo

Irish

Providence advances Avalon oil prospect

Irish oil and gas explorer Providence Resources is a step closer to drilling a prospect off the south-west coast.

Pharma giant: Perrigo’s operational centre in Allegan, Michigan. The company employs around 180 workers in Ireland

Irish

The taxman cometh: how Solpadeine maker was left with a €1.6bn headache

One day in late November, a surprise caller turned up at Perrigo's Dublin headquarters, close to the so-called 'Googletown' neighbourhood.

'The battered British currency was headed for its best week against the euro in over a year, which likely says more about how far it has fallen than how far it has to rise.' Stock photo: Bloomberg

Brexit

David Chance: 'Don't buy into the sterling rally as Brexit and politics weigh'

The pound staged a mini rally after UK Prime Minister Theresa May won a confidence vote this week, although that was as much to do with euro weakness as any positive sentiment towards the currency, or on clarity over Brexit.

Monte dei Paschi in Siena. Photo: AFP

World

Italy weighs merger plans to safeguard struggling banks

Italy is considering merging troubled banks Monte dei Paschi and Banca Carige with healthier rivals such as UBI Banca as it scrambles to avert a new banking crisis, sources familiar with the matter said.

Need to know: There is an option to defer payment of the property tax if you are struggling financially, which could help you in the short-term

Personal Finance

As a widower is there any way I can pay less local property tax?

Q: I am 74, and a widower and I pay the full local property tax on my house in Bray, Co Wicklow, which I bought with my wife when we moved here in 1965. I live on a small private pension, and it is a big bill to pay each year. Are there any conditions that allow for widowed people to pay a...

Saving for a rainy day: Irish people have €103bn on deposit

Personal Finance

Make those savings work for you

Economic theory says when you have a booming economy and low interest rates people do two things: spend and borrow. But people are not economic theories.

Ryanair's CEO Michael O’Leary, Photo: PA

Irish

John Mulligan: 'Ryanair's lower than expected fares good for flyers, but may hit shareholders'

Ryanair's woes are good news for passengers, not so good for shareholders - at least in the short term.

Ryanair's shares touch four-year low on fresh profit fears

Stock Image: Bloomberg

Property & Mortgages

New housing supply reaches nine year high in 2018, remains at half of estimated demand

The supply of new housing in Ireland last year reached a nine year high of 18,855.

Rental pressures: An artist’s impression of what ‘Salesforce Tower’ could look like. The building will sit beside the new Central Bank offices (on far right) at Dublin’s Spencer Dock.

Technology

Salesforce to add 1,500 jobs and a new 'urban campus' to Dublin's city centre

Salesforce, the business software company, is to add 1,500 jobs and a new ‘urban campus’ to Dublin’s city centre.

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EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan. Photo: Reuters

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EU Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan. Photo: Reuters

Tories peddling 'toxic lie' on Brexit - EU hits back Brexit

Editor's Choice

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Brendan Keenan: 'We have no reason to be smug when it comes to not talking about things'

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Ray MacSharry, Minister for Finance, holds aloft the Budget Bag.

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Growing pains: the threat posed to tillage yields by potential chemicals ban

Storm clouds are gathering over the Irish tillage sector:...

Irish

Shares in Ryanair sank below €10 for the first time in four years yesterday after the airline issued its second profit warning in three months. Photo: Reuters

Irish

Ryanair's shares touch four-year low on fresh profit fears

Shares in Ryanair sank below €10 for the first time in four years yesterday after the airline issued its second profit warning in three months.

John Mulligan: 'Ryanair's lower than expected fares good for flyers, but may hit shareholders'

The taxman cometh: how Solpadeine maker was left with a €1.6bn headache

Fourth record year in a row for Dublin Port cargo volume

Providence Resources receives approval to convert Avalon prospect into full exploration license

DAA in bid to ground houses plan near airport

Aer Lingus 'committed' to regional Stobart service

Irish

Irish oil and gas explorer Providence Resources is a step closer to drilling a prospect off the south-west coast. Stock photo

Providence advances Avalon oil prospect

World

Monte dei Paschi in Siena. Photo: AFP

World

Italy weighs merger plans to safeguard struggling banks

Italy is considering merging troubled banks Monte dei Paschi and Banca Carige with healthier rivals such as UBI Banca as it...

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Deputy chair leaves Patisserie Valerie

Ghosn received €7.8m improperly from Nissan-Mitsubishi JV companies

SocGen hit as French banks suffer volatility

SocGen woes hit Europe's shares

Fashion forward: Clothes boost for owner of Penneys

World

Carlos Ghosn

Ghosn received €7.8m improperly from Nissan-Mitsubishi JV companies

Technology

Rental pressures: An artist’s impression of what ‘Salesforce Tower’ could look like. The building will sit beside the new Central Bank offices (on far right) at Dublin’s Spencer Dock.

Technology

Thousands of new tech jobs heading for capital

Dublin's inner city is to get a fresh influx of thousands of tech jobs.

Tech Review: Nikon Z7

Cook: time to take on murky 'data brokers'

Footee chief targets corporate VR fans

Facebook set to roll out its Irish political ad policy around the world

Don't trust average numbers in your startup - they're a bad metric

Enet lines up new team after IIF deal done

Technology

Apple chief executive Tim Cook. Photo: PA

Cook: time to take on murky 'data brokers'

Jobs

An artist’s impression of the new Salesforce Tower in Dublin. Photo: PA

Commercial Property

Salesforce unveils 1,500 Dublin jobs and 'tower' in record deal

Salesforce, the business software company, is to add 1,500 jobs to its Dublin operation at a new 'urban campus' in the docklands.

Employers wary of interviewing short-term job-hoppers

Fears grow for Debenhams jobs as stores facing axe set to double

Life sciences firm expands here with 150 jobs in capital

War for talent ensures 2019 is a candidate's market

Skills shortage and cost of living 'boost salaries'

US biotech firm Meissner to bring jobs boost with move to IDA building

Jobs

Options: Indeed’s Chris McDonald said employees still have scope to pick and choose the roles they want

Employers wary of interviewing short-term job-hoppers

Personal Finance

Saving for a rainy day: Irish people have €103bn on deposit

Personal Finance

Make those savings work for you

Economic theory says when you have a booming economy and low interest rates people do two things: spend and borrow. But people are not...

Mortgage-to-rent plan 'a scam on taxpayers - it's like a lottery win'

New housing supply reaches nine year high in 2018, remains at half of estimated demand

Property prices fall as lending limits bite

Rate of property price rises eases nationally - but largest hike recorded in the Mid-West

Trainers: by Fiona Ness

Petrol prices plunge but the taxman takes 64pc

Personal Finance

Need to know: There is an option to defer payment of the property tax if you are struggling financially, which could help you in the short-term

As a widower is there any way I can pay less local property tax?

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Business

Dairymaster technicians put the finishing touches to the latest bulk tank manufactured at the firm's plant in Causeway, Co Kerry

Germany takes notice of a new crop of Irish agritech firms

Commercial Property

An artist’s impression of the new Salesforce Tower in Dublin. Photo: PA

Commercial Property

Salesforce unveils 1,500 Dublin jobs and 'tower' in record deal

Salesforce, the business software company, is to add 1,500 jobs to its Dublin operation at a new 'urban campus' in the docklands.

Fully-let Harold's Cross offices at €1.75m promise 7.3pc initial yield

Operating profit at Cairn Homes set to jump to €53m

Sale of famous Kestrel pub sees strong interest

Premier Inn buys Dublin site for €15m

Construction index hits four-month high

Johnny Ronan eyes bid for New York's Chrysler Building

Commercial Property

Landmark: The Kestrel is located at the Walkinstown Roundabout

Sale of famous Kestrel pub sees strong interest

Media & Marketing

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Media & Marketing

INM to cut 30 jobs as 3-year plan is unveiled

Independent News and Media yesterday announced it expects 30 redundancies across the business, as management unveiled a new strategic...

John McGee: 'All roads lead to Brexit in uncertain year for Adland'

Steve Dempsey: 'Back to the future for ad sector'

Marketing People: Alan Fagan Head of marketing, Linked Finance

Irish Independent - first with news of the biggest commercial property deals in 2018

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Steve Dempsey: 'Social media now top for news as mobiles driving digital growth'

Media & Marketing

If Theresa May could find a sensible solution in Brexit talks that would certainly change our outlook and make for a much stronger year all round. Photo: Reuters

John McGee: 'All roads lead to Brexit in uncertain year for Adland'

Switching Saturday

Before switching you will need four key pieces of information to hand — but in the end it will save you a lot of money

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