13+ hour, 29+ min ago   (586+ words) The State-owned Irish Shipping company had ordered a large bulk carrier, which was built in a shipyard in Glasgow. When it was finished in 1973, because of its size and its specialised function, on its maiden voyage it would not come…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (551+ words) Sam Altman and Elon Musk have backed a call from the head of Anthropic, Dario Amodei, to “slow the pace” of artificial intelligence development after he warned that an AI swarm could otherwise become capable of “taking over the entire…...

23+ hour, 29+ min ago   (537+ words) George Bernard Shaw is said to have remarked after spending time at the enormous castle built by the American newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst in California, that it was what God would have built if God had had the money....

1+ day, 5+ hour ago   (298+ words) Tim Cook had big shoes to fill when he succeeded Apple’s Steve Jobs in 2011. Fifteen years and a 2,700 per cent-plus share-price gain later (dividends included), John Ternus has inherited an equally daunting pair, taking over from Cook as Apple’s chief…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (784+ words) The Covid-19 lockdown provided the nudge Edel Duffy needed to launch her online business, Her Place Cosmetics. The Galway native and marketing graduate had moved to Australia in 2010, settling in Sydney, having first lived in Perth, but she missed her…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (407+ words) One has to imagine that somewhere in the basement of the Department of Finance there’s a large, industrial-sized recycling centre for public policies. How else can we explain the re-emergence of a proposal to abolish stamp duty for first-time buyers…...

1+ day, 12+ hour ago   (486+ words) John Wilson hops on the hyper-decanting wine trend – does it work? The Irish Times John Wilson hops on the hyper-decanting wine trend – does it work? How to Drink Better: The answer depends on what you are hoping to achieve…...

2+ day, 12+ hour ago   (552+ words) A charity run by a Wicklow-based businessman received more than 170 warnings from the Charities Regulator over its failure to file annual accounts over a period of six years. Earlier this year the Shauna Kavanagh Foundation (SKF) company was listed for…...

2+ day, 21+ hour ago   (602+ words) A planning notice for the Dublin District Heating Project has been issued, opening a six-week period for public submissions on the long-promised scheme. The project, meant to begin a decade ago, will take heat generated by burning household waste at…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (651+ words) Irish Continental Group (ICG) chief executive Eamonn Rothwell’s €1.2 billion management buyout bid for the ferry operator was approved narrowly at a shareholder meeting on Thursday, despite objections from a number of big investors to the deal. The resolution to sell…...