Adam Maguire

6 days ago | rte.ie | Adam Maguire

Call it what you like – second hand, vintage, pre-owned, pre-loved, thrift – but second hand clothes shopping has been around for a long time. Oxford opened its first charity shop in England in the 1940s, while The Salvation Army says it opened its first charity shop - offering more affordable items like clothes – all the way back in the 1870s. And there have long been vintage clothes shops too – a more curated version of second-hand shopping than what charity shops offer.

1 week ago | rte.ie | Adam Maguire

Enterprise Ireland invested €27.6m in start-ups last year, up 15% compared to the amount invested in 2023. The money was spread across 157 companies - one more than in the previous year. Enterprise Ireland said 63 of the companies it invested in are based outside of Dublin, 45 are women-led, while 25 were spun out of third level institutions. There was also a mix in terms of the start-up stage of the companies in question.

1 week ago | rte.ie | Adam Maguire

Irish firms need to ensure they are compliant with new European accessibility rules or risk significant penalties, a digital design expert has warned. The European Accessibility Act comes into force on 28 June, requiring certain products and services to be more accessible to people with disabilities. The aim of the directive is to make critical services as accessible to people with disabilities as they are to other users, which in practice means making them adaptable to different use cases.

2 weeks ago | rte.ie | Adam Maguire

A sense of relief is sure to have spread across Ireland's tech and semiconductor sector when the Trump administration abruptly decided to exempt them from its grand tariffs plan. But that feeling of relief was to be short-lived. Just two days later, US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick made clear that the exemption represented more of a respite than a reversal – and that sector-specific tariffs were on their way.

1 month ago | rte.ie | Adam Maguire

Irish drinks brands are facing falling sales in the US, according to a leading distiller, despite the sector likely dodging targetted tariffs. Yesterday the European Union unveiled the list of US products it was planning to impose import tariffs on should attempts at reaching a compromise with the Trump administration fail. The list includes almonds, soya beans and yachts but - despite previous indications from the commission - it does not include bourbon.