Co-founded by entrepreneurs Michael Carey and Alison Cowzer, East Coast Bakehouse employs 78 people in Drogheda. An interim examiner has been appointed to help save the business.
As AI reshapes how people learn and teach, Dr Mary Kelly, the new president of Hibernia College Group, explains how technology is being embedded into teacher training — and why exporting that expertise is now a global opportunity.
Finance Ireland has been reported to be up for sale for over a year. Now a €10 billion Austrian bank, which already has Irish interests, is seeking to buy it.
The EU-Mercosur trade deal is moving ahead but the Irish Farmers’ Association is game-planning its final effort to get the agreement tossed out by the European Parliament.
Last year, TikTok was fined €530m by the DPC and ordered to bring its data transfers to China into line with EU privacy law. The High Court stayed the ruling as the platform argued the damage caused would be in the billions. That stay is now set for an urgent Supreme Court appeal.
Stephen Holst is managing partner of McCann FitzGerald, a law firm with 680 people and deep roots in Irish business.
Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot has been excoriated over users creating AI-generated sexual abuse content, including depictions of children.
Bam has filed five new sets of proceedings against the development board of the National Children's Hospital. The multi-million euro claims include demands for inflation payments, extra steel costs, and delays.
The DAA chief executive of three years is legally challenging his suspension and an independent investigation into claims made against him that he insists are baseless.
The Oireachtas body challenged a 2024 enforcement notice issued by the data watchdog over how it handled a subject access request in 2018. The legal case is now settled but the DPC says that the original complaint process remains live.
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