Ireland

Foreign companies that relocate their headquarters to Ireland for tax purposes without investing in operations there are...

Elan, the Irish drug company, has formally rejected as “grossly inadequate” Royalty Pharma’s $5.7bn takeover bid. Elan also...

A woman takes a break in the poultry tent on the first day of the Balmoral Show in Northern Ireland on Wednesday. The show,...

US insurance company AllState Corporation is creating 650 jobs at its technology division in Northern Ireland, providing a...

Dublin is reviewing its generous fiscal regime for oil and gas companies following criticism from parliamentarians and...

Mike Thomson stands at the cheese counter at Arcadia Delicatessen in Belfast surveying the shop’s extensive range of artisan...

The Irish Competition Authority has cleared BlackRock’s acquisition of Credit Suisse’s exchange traded fund arm following a...

Tax evasion and tax avoidance will dominate next month’s summit of the Group of Eight leading nations, George Osborne,...

Scotland The Eden Rock, the luxury hotel on the French Caribbean island of Saint Barthélemy, has launched an outpost in the...

In 1983, in Northern Ireland, at the height of the civil disturbances known as the Troubles, a group of local photographers...

G4S, the support services group that bungled the contract to supply security guards to the London Olympics, will help the...

We see them on our television screens all too often: mothers, struggling with the unimaginable grief of losing a child. Sal,...

London has moved to calm fears in Dublin about its plan to hold an in-out referendum on EU membership, telling senior Irish...

My column this week was on Germany’s attempt to export the German model throughout the eurozone. Here is some additional...

Dublin is issuing an amnesty and apology to several thousand former soldiers who deserted the Irish Defence Forces to fight...

Any retail high street bank chief will tell you that IT investment and development is critical in maintaining loyalty in a...

Brussels is increasing efforts to clamp down on tax avoidance by wealthy investors, including private equity partners and...

ExxonMobil has launched a drilling campaign deep in Atlantic waters off the far west extremities of Ireland, reigniting...

The Irish government has defended critical comments made by the country’s ceremonial president about EU leaders’ response to...

On Thursday morning, a small storm erupted in Ireland over an interview given by the president, Michael D. Higgins, to the...

Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency has sold its first big tranche of Irish commercial property loans to a company...

The EU must drop its “hegemonic” economic model and reform the European Central Bank or risk social upheaval and a loss of...

A few weeks before Ireland unveiled its 2012 budget, which heaped €3.5bn in tax rises and spending cuts on an...

Dublin has agreed the details of new legislation that would for the first time sanction abortion under restricted...

Ireland’s only indigenous ethnic group is bearing the brunt of public spending cuts imposed under the country’s...

Evict the troika not the people,” reads a sign stuck on a small wooden hut in County Limerick. Close by, a metal gate blocks...

Across the world, the ability of multinationals to exploit cracks in the international tax system has angered an...

Legal & General, the UK insurer, has gained a foothold in the international annuity market with a €136m (£114m) deal to...

Ireland’s chief banking regulator is set to join Lloyds Banking Group as the new head of compliance at Britain’s biggest...

Bondholders who believe they have been treated unfairly in past restructurings could start lodging legal claims, lawyers...

The EU’s alternatives directive, coming into force this summer, could morph into a global brand in the same way Ucits, which...

A consortium of banks has agreed to write off €138m of debt owed by Independent News & Media in a financial restructuring...

Sean Maher worked for 39 years as a glass cutter at Waterford Crystal, the glass manufacturer that became a global brand and...

Ireland is ba-a-a-ck! At least, that’s the message from European officials, now pinning their hopes on Portugal being the...

Russia has threatened to block Irish adoptions of Russian children if the Dublin parliament adopts a US-style “Magnitsky...

Protesters against austerity and property taxes outside the Ballymascanlon Hotel in Dundalk, Ireland where Taoiseach Enda...

I’m a senior manager with responsibility for the performance of several hundred people. But in my close management team I...