Ryanair’s turbulence continues, 50 jobs go at Totterdell, Deirdre Foley’s dividend

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It hasn't been a good week for Ryanair, Barry O'Halloran delves into what went wrong and how so many of its customers were left high and dry. Barry also reports its shareholders overwhelmingly backed the re-election of chairman David Bonderman and its executive pay policy despite advisors' calls to oppose them amid the company's current cancellation woes.

Almost 50 jobs are to be lost as mobile phone company Totterdell Communications in Bray, Co Wicklow is to close down at the end of the month.

Deirdre Foley, a Dublin-based property developer with a 20 per cent stake in the Clerys redevelopment project, received a fee of 485,000 euro in relation to her work on the project last year, according to financial statements. Mark Paul reports.

Bank of Ireland has said it will begin paying redress and compensation "within weeks" to more than 4,200 mortgage customers who had been overcharged, trailing rivals' efforts to draw a line under a controversy affecting the industry for the past two years. Joe Brennan has the details.

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John FitzGerald contemplates what the sterling shock means for Ireland and what we can do about it.

The expected re-election of German chancellor Angela Merkel this weekend will give Europe a "window of opportunity" to commit to a debt deal for Greece, according to the chief strategist at one of Switzerland's largest private banks., reports Joe Brennan.

Barry O'Halloran meets Kevin Maughan and hears of the light bulb moment that has given LED supplier UrbanVolt a bright future.

Olive Keogh looks at how employers can get the best out of the millennial generation, while Fiona Alston hear s the expansion plans of Tom's Skinny Pizza's owner Denis Kiely.

Mark Paul's Caveat dons its wellies and heads to the Ploughing where he discovers that rural Ireland seems to be recovering its swagger.

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