Cards, contactless and Covid have cooled but not broken the habit of using cash in Ireland and it remains far more common here than in the rest of the eurozone.
The receiver to a Cork-based artificial intelligence firm that has entered liquidation has agreed to sell the company to tech entrepreneur Eoin Goulding.
Kerry Group is in exclusive negotiations to sell the trade and assets of its Sweet Ingredients Portfolio to IRCA, an international leader in chocolate, creams, and other high-quality semi-finished food ingredients, for a consideration of €500m partly made up of a vendor loan.