Ireland

Wells Fargo & Co's Irish subsidiary was fined 5.9 million euros on Friday for a prolonged series of regulatory reporting breaches, the second largest fine ever handed down by Ireland's Central Bank.

Virgin Media has completed the rollout of its ultrafast broadband network in Hoyland and North Hoyland which will bring the UK's fastest widely available speeds in the UK to more than 10,000 homes and businesses. As part of its 'Project Lightning' network expansion programme, Virgin Media is expanding its ultrafast broadband network across the UK, bringing average top speeds of 516Mbps to residents and small businesses. This will help transform the quality of broadband in Hoyland where...

Apple's main regulator in the European Union, Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), has opened a third privacy investigation into the iPhone maker over the last few weeks, a spokesman for the DPC said on Tuesday.

Children who are frequently bullied are nearly three times more likely to feel like an outsider at school and more than twice as likely to miss school as those who are not frequently bullied. They are also more likely to expect to leave formal education after finishing secondary school. Children who are bullied score lower in mathematics and reading tests, and the more often they are bullied the worse their score. For these reasons and more, UNESCO joined the International Bullying Preven...

Microsoft's LinkedIn on Thursday said it would add 800 new roles to its European headquarters in Dublin, the latest major jobs announcement that capped off a record six months for foreign direct investment (FDI) into Ireland.

Big tech companies are feeling the heat as the General Data Protection Regulation gathers momentum.

Advertisers must be certified as providing or not providing abortions, and Google will include disclosures on ads about ending pregnancy.

LONDON, May 9, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Digital Realty (NYSE: DLR), a leading global provider of data centre, colocation and interconnection solutions, announced...

The US Speaker was speaking ahead of her trip to Ireland on Tuesday.

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St Patrick's Day, is a global celebration of the Irish. Green-clad crowds swarm parade routes from Tokyo to Toronto; in Chicago, the river is dyed green; and in New Orleans, strings of green beads soar through the air along St. Charles Street. In Ireland, however, it's music that's central to the St. Patrick's Day experience. A look at our users' listening habits from the past several St. Patrick's Days shows that Irish music lovers use the holiday to stream songs primarily by their ampl...

Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has agreed to acquire Enterprise System Partners (ESP), a consulting and manufacturing services provider for the life sciences industry that is headquartered in Cork, Ireland, serving clients around the globe. Upon close, ESP will join Accenture Industry X.0, which helps clients master the digital reinvention of industry, strengthening Accenture's capabilities to transform manufacturing for pharmaceutical, biotech and medical device clients globally., , , , ESP has lon...

Soldo, the London-based fintech startup that offers a multi-user spending account primarily for businesses, has secured an Electronic Money Institution licence from Ireland's Central Bank, a move the company says is designed to mitigate against the uncertainty of Brexit. The Accel-backed company is...

Sir Adrian Montague, Chairman of Aviva, who has been acting in an executive capacity pending the appointment of a CEO, will revert to his role as non-executive Chairman. Maurice joined Aviva in 1992 and was appointed to the Board of Aviva plc in June 2017. Maurice is currently Aviva's Chief Executive Officer, International Insurance and has responsibility for Aviva's life insurance and general insurance operations in France, Canada, Ireland, Italy, Poland, Turkey and India. He was previou...

A planned revision to international tax rules for the digital era could be drawn up within 2019 after the United States and Ireland indicated that they wanted a deal, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said on Thursday.

Ireland's Data Protection Commissioner, Facebook's lead regulator in the European Union, expects to conclude the first of seven investigations into the company's use of personal data this summer and the remainder by the end of the year, its head said on Thursday.

LOS ANGELES, Feb. 16, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Golden Globe Award-winning actor Colin Farrell will accept the City Summit & Gala's Inspiration award at the 4th...

Research on Stone Age tombs throughout Europe offers a new answer to an old debate on where and when the iconic stone works were first built.

Attention Mixed Martial Arts fans! Sky Sports will be the only place in the UK and Ireland to watch the US, London and Dublin shows of the Bellator MMA 2019 tour, starting later this month. We literally kick off with the long-awaited welterweight showdown between British rivals Michael "Venom" Page and Paul Daley at Bellator 216 on 16 February at the Mohegan Sun arena in the US - airing in the early hours of the 17th for UK & Ireland viewers. Then MMA returns to Dublin for Bellator 217, w...

French insurer AXA will move staff over to Ireland from France and the United Kingdom, in light of Britain's plans to leave the European Union.