Sinn Féin would pursue ‘radical’ alternative housing policy, says DohertyParty would double capital investment and reform planning do deliver affordable homesMon Feb 21 2022 - 14:55
How did housing become one of the most divisive issues on the planet?From Europe to the US and Asia, young people are priced out and feeling left behindSun Feb 20 2022 - 12:22
Inflation eases back to 5% but further price pressure expected in coming monthsReprieve looked on as temporary as energy costs continue to riseThu Feb 17 2022 - 15:46
Employment numbers top 2.5m for the first timeLargest increase was in accommodation and food services which jumped by 29.8%Thu Feb 17 2022 - 11:19
€500,000 price tag for ‘average’ Dublin propertyProperty price inflation surges to pandemic high of 14.4% amid supply squeezeWed Feb 16 2022 - 11:28
Majority of Irish savers unsure of terms ESG and ‘responsible investing’ – surveyResearch by Amundi finds strong appetite among savers to invest in greener productsWed Feb 16 2022 - 06:00
Irish exports surge to a record €165bn in 2021While exports to Britain were up, Brexit hurts imports from UK to tune of €2.4bnTue Feb 15 2022 - 20:40
KBC Bank Ireland accused of showing ‘complete contempt’ for staffLender strongly refutes accusation, claims it has offered staff generous redundancy termsTue Feb 15 2022 - 13:30
KPMG urges overhaul of Irish personal tax system to attract investmentKPMG calls for more competitive tax system and more spending on housing and climateTue Feb 15 2022 - 05:21
County councils held close to €300m in development bonds in 2020Construction firms must place money on deposit with councils before carrying out workTue Feb 15 2022 - 05:16
Online sales with Irish businesses account for 6.5% of transactionsCSO data doesn’t capture online sales with overseas businessesMon Feb 14 2022 - 12:00
Why energy costs could remain high for up to five yearsIt is possible households will stay in the grip of a cost-of-living squeeze even if headline inflation moderatesMon Feb 14 2022 - 05:32
European shares end lower but mark first positive week this yearTravel and leisure best weekly performers, up 7.4 per centFri Feb 11 2022 - 19:17
The great price squeeze: when will it end?The pandemic has been overtaken by a cost-of-living crisis that shows no sign of abatingFri Feb 11 2022 - 05:30
British-Irish chamber calls for new body to simplify tax codeBusiness advocacy group claims recent elements of law are confusing entrepreneursFri Feb 11 2022 - 05:03
Unemployment in OECD drops to 5.4% as recovery takes holdJobless numbers across industrialised bloc declines for the eighth consecutive monthTue Feb 08 2022 - 12:01
Uncertainty clouds economic outlook for 2022Inflation could become endemic if wage demands become entrenchedSun Feb 06 2022 - 12:08
Cabinet to look at measures to offset soaring cost of livingDesire to help people beyond €100 support for utility bills already announcedThu Feb 03 2022 - 04:00
Christmas spending splurge fattens Government’s January VAT receiptsState collects €6.7bn in tax, putting public finances on stable footing at start of yearWed Feb 02 2022 - 16:34
Unemployment rises to 7.8% in January as restrictions biteAs many as 202,000 people were either unemployed or on PUP last month, CSO saysWed Feb 02 2022 - 11:28
Card spending hits record €8.4bn in run-up to ChristmasStrong growth in Irish economy is being fuelled by a pick-up in consumer spendingMon Jan 31 2022 - 13:42
Sentiment lifts post-Omicron as workers gear up for pay hikesBank of Ireland’s latest Economic Pulse detects more upbeat moodMon Jan 31 2022 - 07:36
Social housing stock rises by less than 10,000 in four yearsDublin local authorities added 659 homes a year on average, but Dún Laoghaire saw stock fallMon Jan 31 2022 - 07:35
Playing politics with broadband saddles taxpayer with €2.6bn liabilityProject costing €5.5bn mired in delay ... and no public ownership of the end productSun Jan 30 2022 - 13:55
Retail sales fall in December as Omicron spoils Christmas for retailersCSO data shows volume of sales fell 3.2% as consumers spent less in bars and on goodsFri Jan 28 2022 - 12:10
Rollout of National Broadband Plan falls further behind scheduleCompany behind project admits it will not make target to pass 60,000 homesThu Jan 27 2022 - 15:02
Government spent close to €900m on rent subsidies in 2021HAP scheme payments rose to €542m – a more than 80% rise since 2018, figures showThu Jan 27 2022 - 13:10
Covid restrictions push down new housing outputCSO figures show 20,433 homes were completed last year, down 0.5%Thu Jan 27 2022 - 11:51
Irish consumer sentiment lifts with easing of pandemic fearsLatest KBC Bank Ireland index points to rising optimism among consumersThu Jan 27 2022 - 05:40
Loss of 12.5% tax rate won’t have ‘significant impact’ – IDA chiefWelcome certainty of corporate deal will offset rate increase, says Martin ShanahanWed Jan 26 2022 - 11:26
Pandemic frees up more women to participate in workforceCountries with higher levels of female empowerment tend to be more productiveWed Jan 26 2022 - 05:05
Irish economy set to generate 167,000 jobs over next two yearsCentral Bank reports strong rebound in economy but warns on inflationary pressureWed Jan 26 2022 - 00:15
IMF warns elevated inflation will persist longer than expectedFund cuts growth forecast for global economy on back on renewed Covid outbreaksTue Jan 25 2022 - 16:55
Housing starts now back at Celtic Tiger levelsSherry FitzGerald anticipates sizeable rise in construction outputTue Jan 25 2022 - 05:13
Makhlouf insists inflation to moderate later in yearCentral Bank governor describes recent surge in energy prices as ‘spectacular’Mon Jan 24 2022 - 13:13
It won’t take long before the ‘rip-off Ireland’ mantra begins againThe cost-of-living squeeze is likely to raise the political temperatureSun Jan 23 2022 - 17:05
Republic of Ireland ‘16th most expensive’ place to liveLatest rankings from price comparison site Numbeo contrasts living costs in 139 countriesFri Jan 21 2022 - 16:26
Travel stocks lead European shares higher as airlines soarRyanair advances as oil stocks come off near two-year highThu Jan 20 2022 - 18:33
Ireland’s debt equates to €47,000 for every man, woman and childCSO figures show Government debt rose last year as spending on supports continuedThu Jan 20 2022 - 13:57
Electricity consumed by data centres jumps by 144% in five yearsNew CSO data reveals surge in energy demand from data centres in IrelandThu Jan 20 2022 - 11:47
Spectre of inflation returns to haunt Irish householdsHeadline price growth in economy jumps to 20-year high – energy prices alone set to surgeThu Jan 20 2022 - 06:15
Low-paid workers’ exemption from tax base ‘unfair’ on middle earnersTax institute calls for broader personal tax base and simplified social insurance systemThu Jan 20 2022 - 06:01
House price inflation surges to pandemic high of 14%Average price for home in Dublin now exceeds €500,000Wed Jan 19 2022 - 11:28
Big preference for remote working after restrictions end – CSO surveySome 90% of 35- to 44-year-olds want to be able to work away from office after pandemicTue Jan 18 2022 - 12:27
Moy Park suspends live chicken processing at Ballymena plantChicken processor is Northern Ireland’s largest private sector employerMon Jan 17 2022 - 18:35
Growth in advanced economies expected to slow, OECD dataHigh-frequency data show post-pandemic growth peak has passedMon Jan 17 2022 - 13:01
Goods imports from Britain fall by fifth since BrexitLatest CSO trade numbers show major pick-up in cross-Border trade, howeverMon Jan 17 2022 - 11:58
The truth about the ‘Great Resignation’: It didn’t actually happenEmployment and participation in the Irish labour market has never been higherSun Jan 16 2022 - 11:42
House prices forecast to rise by 5% as supply struggles to meet demandSCSI report also highlights planning issues and impact of rising renovation costsFri Jan 14 2022 - 05:41
European stocks end flat as weak defensives outweigh tech gainsAnalysts expect ‘choppy’ first quarter for US stocks ahead of first Fed interest rate hikeThu Jan 13 2022 - 19:10
