Dairy co-op Tirlán has been accused of sabotaging Irish butter exports after it signed a deal to sell butter under US retail giant Costco’s private label. The move puts it in direct competition with the State’s flagship brand, Kerrygold, with farmers’ groups claiming it could result in a “race to the bottom” at the expense of producers here. Eoin Burke-Kennedy has the details. Kingspan has made its largest acquisition to date with the purchase of BMC Manufacturing Group for up to €900 million. The move signals an expansion of the company’s data centre business, Dominic Coyle says. Twenty years ago, the average age of first-time buyers was about 29. These days, owning a home at that age is the stuff of fairytales. So what’s changed in 20 years? Joanne Hunt takes a look. Large companies employing thousands of people plotted to undermine the State’s planned auto-enrolment system for workers by pushing staff into pension schemes that would yield very little in return, a Government paper has said. Ken Foxe has the details. Culligan’s, the Republic’s largest filtered water provider, is planning a multimillion-euro investment to expand operations that will see it add more than 100 jobs over the next three years. Stephen Conneely reports. Creative ambiguity is not a good look for a company that relies on the trust of the public, John McManus writes in his column. Many people seem to believe Re-turn, which runs the State’s plastic bottle deposit scheme, is a Government-run semi-State agency or a charity. But it is a company set up and run by the drinks industry. While nobody should be surprised that the business pays its directors well and goes to considerable lengths to obscure just how much, they should be worried.Revenue at Glen Dimplex fell €82 million amid a weak heat-pump market, but the company is expecting a rebound in 2026, Killian Woods writes. The number of electric cars licensed for the first time last month rose by 82 per cent when compared to July 2025. Stephen Conneely has the details.