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An estate agent who denied he meant he was quitting when he told his boss “I don’t feel like going into work today” has lost a claim for unfair dismissal.

🎙️ Inside Business podcast: Eoghan O’Mara Walsh, chief executive of the Irish Tourist Industry Confederation, tells host Ciarán Hancock what he thinks is happening in the sector.

The building where James Joyce’s short story The Dead was set is to be converted into apartments. Brimwood UC, a firm owned by former Monaghan senior football manager, Séamus ‘Banty’ McEnaney, has secured planning permission to turn 15 Usher’s Island in Dublin 8 into apartments.

Confessions of a Female Founder doesn’t feature any ear-pricking insights, it also isn’t about any specific business-world struggles that anyone who wishes to emulate Whitney Wolfe Herd’s success could either relate to or learn from. Instead, it’s about loving yourself – a “revolutionary act”, Meg and Whit agree – being a “cheerleader” for your friends, and the trials of being in the public eye. Wolfe Herd expresses astonishment that Markle is a celebrity figure even in Ireland. Walking through an Irish airport some years ago, her “jaw hit the floor” when she saw that her friend was “the cover of every single magazine and newspaper”, she reports, perhaps not understanding that the majority of these publications were likely the UK-owned titles that flood the market here. “Every single one said something different. I mean, random headline, random headline. You were the cover of every single one of those magazines, tabloids and newspapers,” she marvels. This was surreal to her: “I’m in Ireland. She’s back home in California with her kids doing school drop-off, and she’s the front page of every single one of these things. What are they talking about? There’s no content. There’s nothing to say. I just had this moment where I was like, wow, this is a different beast.” Review: https://lnkd.in/dtf3EYzM

A worker for a contracting firm at Dublin Airport who was dismissed for telling a customer services check-in representative to “f**k off” had been reinstated, the High Court heard.

Europe has the luxury of waiting to see how China’s retaliation against US President Donald Trump’s controversial tariffs plays out before deciding its own course, an expert on US trade policy has said.

A slaughterhouse safety manager, who said a “toxic” workplace environment where she was called a “prostitute” and a “doll” facilitated alleged “bully-boy behaviour” towards her by a State employee, has won €48,000 in compensation after she was penalised for making a complaint.

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The European Union (EU) is to hit back at the United States with its own tariffs, targeting a range of goods from US soybeans, to steel, oranges, chainsaws and washing machines.