It’s had a €1.4bn Olympic clean-up, but the Seine is still too polluted to swim in
Planet Business: ‘Virtual burnout’, the AI music generators being sued by the industry and celebrities standing at the UK general election
Does the ‘Taylor Swift lift’ really add up to €150m for Dublin?
Swifties may be happy to splurge on the singer’s Eras tour, but the reported average spend of €1,000 per person overstates the reality for most fans
The Racket by Conor Niland: Lonely tennis locker room conveyed with deft touch
An honest and droll memoir from the top-ranked Irish male player in decades
Fair City bears the brunt as RTÉ shrinks for its ‘third age’
Director general Kevin Bakhurst plans to increase independent commissioning to €70m a year. Doing this means making fewer programmes in-house
Taylor Swift fans aren’t the only ones to suffer setlist envy
Setlist.FM raises expectations of what a show will be like – and sometimes it dashes them too
Destination Downing Street for Starmer and Reeves as UK election enters endgame
Planet Business: The Telegraph’s uncertain future, Disney’s Inside Out 2 joy, and McDonald’s AI ordering fails
European shares nudge lower on Friday but hang onto weekly gain
Carlsberg Group dropped 9.3% after Britvic rejected a revised, unsolicited €3.7 billion takeover bid from the brewer
Switching rate increases for mortgage borrowers at non-lending service firms
Central Bank-published study finds rate at which lower-risk borrowers are leaving non-lending service firms has been higher than the switching rate away from retail banks in recent months
More workers may be needed to finish house builds, says banking group
Construction activity has risen sharply in 2024 but ‘increased labour capacity’ may be required to keep delivery of units in line with commencements
Five roles at risk at public relations agency Powerscourt in London
Rebrand imminent for Rory Godson-founded PR agency now owned by strategic advisor and shareholder services firm Morrow Sodali
Primark plans €40m expansion in Portugal
Fashion retailer to open four new outlets in Portugal as part of investment
Smurfit Kappa lifts Iseq on subdued day for European stocks
French stocks remained under pressure while Wall Street was closed for a US public holiday
Why Paschal Sheehy’s ‘I have scored, Eileen’ is good for RTÉ News
It might not be the role of news to entertain, but with a wave of AI slop on its way, the human touch does no harm
Media company behind The Currency increases profit to €344,000
Business journalism site has 6,200 paying members and revenue of €1.44m, chief executive Tom Lyons says
Four in 10 people in Ireland ‘worn out by the amount of news there is these days’
News and information overload a ‘common complaint’, Reuters Institute digital news report finds, but more people now pay for news