The UK will this morning table fresh proposals aimed at breaking the Brexit deadlock, RTÉ News understands. Two sources have confirmed to RTÉ News that British negotiators will bring forward an updated plan to Brussels to deal with the issue of customs and the Irish border. The move follows a 90-minute meeting last night between British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, DUP leader Arlene Foster and DUP deputy leader Nigel Dodds. | Bank of Ireland has appointed Myles O'Grady as its Group Chief Financial Officer and executive director. Mr O'Grady will replace Andrew Keating who announced he was stepping down in June. The new appointment is still subject to regulatory approval. Myles O'Grady joined the bank in June as Director of Commercial Partnering Ireland and was also appointed group non-executive director at Bank of Ireland (UK) plc. | China's consumer inflation accelerated at its fastest pace in almost six years in September as African swine fever sent pork prices soaring nearly 70%, official data showed today. Authorities have gone as far as tapping the nation's pork reserve to control prices of the staple meat, as the swine fever crisis could become a political and economic liability for the state. | Backers of Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency project pledged to forge ahead after selecting a five-member board. They shrugged off the latest member defection by online travel company Booking Holding. The owner of Priceline, Kayak and Booking.com yesterday confirmed that it had pulled out of the group, which is trying to bring digital coins into mainstream commerce. | Patreon, the membership and payment platform for independent artists and their fans, is opening a new office in Dublin. The new Dublin office will serve as the company's European headquarters. Patreon said it plans to create 30 jobs over the next two years within its product, engineering and general administrative teams in Dublin. The US company's move is being is supported by IDA Ireland. | Marston's said today it would sell off more pubs this year, as the British pub operator expected lower annual pretax profit due to a fall in food sales at some of its pubs, as well as higher labour costs. The company, which has an estate of around 1,500 managed, franchised and leased pubs, said it would sell more pubs than anticipated. It raised its disposal forecast to £70m from £40m for 2019.   |||