Budget 2024
Budget 2025 – more mixed messaging on international investment in housing
Budget day measures such as higher stamp duty are yet another indication that Ireland is becoming a less welcoming place for international investors
Q&A: When will people receive their budget payments?
Budget 2025: There are different timetables for different people, given the amount of tax cuts, welfare increases and once-off payments
Budget was a missed opportunity to simplify Irish corporate tax code and ease burden on business
Ireland needs a business environment that is attractive and competitive, and having a simpler tax system that is easy to navigate is a critical component
When you’re struggling to make ends meet, it’s hard to watch the Government throwing cash around
Because the floating vote has been floating for a decade, its direction can shift in an instant. This is why the general election campaign itself will matter so much
Government almost 50% shy of housing needed to meet demand, says estate agent
State likely to fall short of 2024 completions target, according to Sherry Fitzgerald chief Marian Finnegan
Mortgage interest relief: How do I qualify for the tax credit of up to €1,250?
Budget 2025 triggered a range of queries from readers on issues including child benefit for newborns and landlord tax relief
Trouble at the top? Relations between Simon Harris and Micheál Martin are frayed
Fianna Fáil and the Greens are absolutely adamant that they will not be hustled into an early election to suit Fine Gael
U2 drummer Larry Mullen jnr can’t live with work done on his Howth property
Plus: You can’t keep Phil Hogan down, trouble at Jack’s Hole in Brittas, and Ireland’s starring role in reality TV
The Defence Forces are looking for new recruits, so our reporters put themselves to the test
The full selection process involves an entry medical; fitness test; online psychometric test; recruitment interview and attestation
Budget 2025 had more to say about AIB than AI
Chambers or Donohoe can’t be accused of perpetuating the hype swirling around generative AI
What I Read This Week: An explosive story in Poland and a surprise budget grenade
Ciara O’Brien enjoyed Jen Hogan’s piece on the dilemma around Botox and fillers and a discussion on homework
Meet the budget’s real winners: A family of five on an income of more than €70,000
Interplay of temporary and permanent measures means that this is a budget for better off people with children – the more the better
Sinn Féin ‘border hopping’ on criticism of mobile phone pouches spend, says Norma Foley
Smartphone usage a ‘serious health and welfare issue’ for thousands of students, according to Minister for Education
Consternation in the corridors of power as all on high election alert
Sinn Féin and the pricey phone pouches, being better than the ‘bloody Tories’ and the diplomacy of singing with 1990s heart-throb Peter Andre
Irish electricity prices have almost tripled in 12 years, in Scandinavian countries they pay half, why?
With this week’s budget, the Government is treating the symptoms rather than tackling the causes of high energy prices
Olympian David Gillick: ‘I coach children. It can be hard dealing with parents ... some get so caught up on results’
Gillick covered the Paris Olympics for RTÉ. He is a two-time European indoor champion and Irish 400m record holder, as well as an ambassador for VHI parkrun
Corre Energy offers cautionary tale as Government bids to revive IPOs
An extraordinary general meeting on Monday will consider investor moves to populate the board with new nominees
The Irish Times view on phone pouches: a small price leads to big trouble
The pouches offer an opportunity to continue what has been a profitable line of attack over Government profligacy
Men fare better than women from budget, notes analysis by National Women’s Council
‘Women continue to have lower incomes, less wealth, fewer resources, all while shouldering the greater share of unpaid care responsibilities’
Phone pouches: What school principals, teachers and students are saying
Most agree phones can distract from learning. But is the Budget 2025 allocation of €9m for pouches the best use of funds?
Does Sinn Féin’s two-candidate general election strategy lack ambition?
Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan
Budget likely to push more elderly and people with disabilities into poverty - ESRI
Child poverty rate will remain unchanged despite the child benefit lump sums
Will Simon Harris announce a general election on the tarmac at Dublin Airport next week?
The rumours are swirling but never mind the noise: the general election campaign has already begun
We could be having too much of an economic good thing
‘Dutch disease’ is when a bonanza turns into an inflation shock. State could yet suffer a mild bout of it
In the room where the budget happened: how the multibillion giveaway deal was done over tea, coffee and custard creams
About €1 billion in giveaways was added in the final days of internal Coalition negotiations amid tense meetings against the backdrop of an approaching general election
Simon Harris is not going to make the same mistake as Leo Varadkar
Extra €2,000-€3,000 placed by the budget in the pockets of middle-income families is a good way to kickstart three weeks of campaigning
Chambers and Donohoe privately raised concerns around scale of child benefit payments
Budget 2025: Chambers and Donohoe cautioned colleagues about expenditure growth in once-off measures
Plodding Jack Chambers makes Paschal Donohoe sound like an unhinged Donald Trump
Radio review: With robust public finances allowing Ministers a Teflon complacency, the fireworks of old are missing from the post-budget airwaves
The Irish Times view on spending the Apple windfall: parties must set out their plans
The lessons– both positive and negative – that have been gleaned while delivering past projects must be learned
School phone pouches: Opposition criticises ‘grotesque’ €9m spend
Minister for Finance staunchly defends measure as ‘investment in children’s welfare’ and stresses international research shows it ‘has made a difference’
Will the Universal Social Charge become hostage to a bitter general election campaign?
The unpopular, post-crash tax may be targeted in an election arms race but pretending it can be abolished would be crazy
Election call is coming from inside the house
Money for phone pouches in schools one element of budget that could blow up on Coalition
Budget pair tread softly around Apple
They didn’t even mention the €14 billion figure, perhaps not wanting to rile the tech giant
Legislation being fast-tracked in Dáil to enable November general election
Pivotal Finance Bill is a key piece of legislation and must pass to give effect to various budget measures
Poll trolling and Sinn Féin baiting all in a day’s work for Taoiseach
Simon Harris pained by assertions that his budget blowout was something other than a serious, sober annual financial statement with no ulterior motive lurking between the lines
When will the election be held? The factors Simon Harris must consider
Q&A: Electoral law gives the Minister for Local Government a say over polling date
‘Chicken curry is very popular’: What to expect on school menus as free scheme is extended
Free hot school meals programme to include all 3,000-plus primary schools from next year
Childcare industry says level of support in budget like a ‘kick in the stomach’
Budget 2025: Increases in funding for early learning and childcare ‘utterly insufficient’, say providers
Sport Ireland gets budget bump to build on Paris success
Sport funding increases to €230.68m as part of Budget 2025
Parents of babies born in December to receive treble child benefit payment
Budget 2025: Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald challenges Taoiseach to ‘bring it on’ and name general election date
Budget 2025 will only increase rich-poor gap, Social Justice Ireland says
Budget measures fail to match the stated ambition of tackling child poverty, says NGO
Budget 2025: Opposition calls for election as Coalition defends budget ‘bonanza’ in face of fierce criticism
Labour says budget was ‘all glitter and full of shiny gimmicks’; Minister for Justice Helen McEntee has said she ‘wants to see a full restoration’ of barristers fees
What wasn’t in Budget 2025 but could have been?
Government criticised for not indexing minimum social welfare payments
Budget 2025 Q&A: inheritance tax and welfare changes the main focus for readers
Record interest among readers in wide-ranging live online post-budget question and answer session
What are these smartphone ‘pouches’ being introduced in schools? And how do they work?
Budget 2025: Government allocated €9 million in the Budget 2025 to helping keep students off phones during school
Cost of Sarp tax relief for overseas executives who relocate to Ireland rises sharply to €48m
Special Assignee Relief Programme costs included €500,000 in tax relief on school fees
Budget 2025 Q&A: Your PAYE tax breaks, mortgage relief and employee gift limit queries answered
Dominic Coyle of The Irish Times and Beryl Power from PwC answered readers’ questions in our post-budget live blog which has now finished. You can read back on all the questions and answers below
What changes have been made to inheritance tax in the budget?
Budget 2025: Everything you need to know about the inheritance tax cut which comes into effect today
Millions for Olympians, dog control, ‘forgotten farmers’: nine budget measures you may have missed
Budget 2025: Funding for chicken pox vaccines and an embassy in Serbia and tax relief for strawberry wine producers are also included
Was the budget designed to help the country’s poorest children or those of the richest?
Budget 2025: Spending the same amount cutting inheritance tax as went to permanent payments targeted at the poorest children was an odd choice
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