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For decades the concept of a workplace has been rooted in physical characteristics: concrete high rises, grey office cubicles and employees gathered around water coolers. The office was a necessity to facilitate work – designed for efficiency, practicality and little else. Then the age of digitalisation emerged and the landscape shifted. Work was no longer tied to a single space, it could be done

Sir, – The headline "Ireland should reconvert Moneypoint to coal, say engineers" (Business, May 8th) might suggest to a hasty reader that the engineering community has reached a consensus. There is no such thing.

I've been employed by the same company for a decade. I work in sales and sell a major portion of the revenue every year, so they're dependent on me staying in sales although I have bigger aspirations.

The National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) has declined to say what future role Brendan McDonagh, the chief executive of the National Asset Management Agency (Nama), will hold as the crisis-era toxic property loans organisation is wound down in the coming months.

Steven Soderbergh is going nowhere. His prolific contemporary career remains one of cinema's great wonders. The Christophers, arriving scarcely a year after the slickly entertaining Black Bag, is the second film the director made in 2025 and his 37th feature overall.

When US president Donald Trump threatened tariffs against the US's Nato allies in a dispute over Greenland in January, London was rattled, the European Union (EU) held emergency meetings and thousands took to the streets in Denmark.

Sage has been announced as impact ambassador for the Irish Accountancy Awards 2026 programme, which culminates with an awards ceremony on Thursday, May 21st at the Dublin Royal Convention Centre.

Sir, – As a parent, finding a creche-place for your child is not easy, and even before they are born you may struggle to register them on a waiting list. As an owner/manager operating a childcare business, finding and retaining staff, meeting costs and juggling funding, present very real challenges.

Sir, – Regarding the article by Finn McRedmond: "Let's not cling to ugly buildings because a few Dubliners are allergic to change," May 7th: Vanity has already destroyed too many interesting corners of Dublin. Just think of the Georgian terrace on Fitzwilliam Street lost to the ESB – and look at it now. We need to listen and reconsider.

How high could oil prices go?

With a prime location on Exchequer Street, the hotel offers stylish rooms; an open-house lobby and bar, a lounge for people watching and meeting, an all-day Peruvian-inspired restaurant Cantina Valentina, New York-inspired sandwich spot Dollars and much-loved local landmark The Library Bar.

Popcorn at the ready. Those who revelled in watching the RTÉ soap opera on their television screens in 2023 now have an opportunity to revisit the whole debacle in book form. Shane Ross brings a sharp eye to the controversy over barter accounts, clandestine payments and the Toy Show musical.

Wholesale electricity prices halved on recent windy days, according to the Climate Change Advisory Council (CCAC), which is pleading with the Government to speed up the supply of renewable power.

Good heavens. Here is a rare film that plays simultaneously as endurance test and rugged pondering of the current societal battlefield. Curry Barker, creator of the no-budget found-footage shocker Milk & Serial, has secured a slightly larger war chest – still a relatively paltry $1 million, or about €850,000 – and made the best American horror of the decade so far.

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Several US and Canadian ice hockey stars, including former Stanley Cup winners, have emerged as investors in the proposed €250 million ice hockey arena for Dublin.

The Government needs to use the coming public sector pay talks to reconnect with the concerns of ordinary workers across the economy, one of the union side's lead negotiators has said.

The risk of strokes and heart attacks among people aged 35-65 could be reduced by 80 per cent under a targeted national strategy, doctors have said.

What the Wild Atlantic Way has done for the west coast a new set of cultural routes could, its creators hope, do for the "fifth province" of the island of Ireland: its literature.

Standing in her maisonette in south Dublin, Janice Maguire points to the small double bed she shares with three of her young sons.

An Post is lining up Fergal Leamy, the former head of Coillte and Glen Dimplex, to become its next chief executive in a move that would mark his return to the semi-State sector after seven years, according to sources.

Irish showjumping star Bertram Allen is seeking to "suppress" any incriminating admissions made to police in Florida after he was arrested for drink-driving.

Jaguar's new electric "GT" four-door super saloon will be known as the Type 01, a name that has clearly evolved from the Type 00 name given to its somewhat controversial coupe concept model, first shown in 2024.

The tax-efficient personal savings and investment accounts (SIAs) planned by the Government may attract as much as €7 billion of investment from Irish households in its first year, according to Banking and Payments Federation Ireland (BPFI).

European stocks rose rallied Wednesday from losses recorded in the previous session, buoyed by mining and technology, even as investors continued to weigh the economic impact of the Iran war.

A barman who claimed he was "publicly belittled" by his boss has won €10,000 in compensation following a ruling that a remark made to a customer violated his dignity at work as a 55-year-old with diabetes.

A court heard how two girls outsmarted a paedophile pensioner who had sexually abused them by recording him on their mobile phones admitting the abuse.

Bank of Ireland was discourteous and imprudent by failing to tell the Supreme Court that it had sold a €200,000 loan at the centre of an appeal, according to Chief Justice Donal O'Donnell.

A website facing legal action from EasyJet founder Stelios Haji-Ioannou's Easygroup targeted Irish customers with ads for Aer Lingus, Newbridge Silverware and other well-known brand names, the High Court heard.

A woman is appealing in the High Court an order directing the destruction of her XL Bully dogs.