The Government reported a target-beating €12.8 billion exchequer surplus last year on the back of a record tax haul, providing Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael with greater scope to commit to big-ticket investments in areas such as housing as they resumed coalition talks on Monday, according to Joe Brennan and Pat Leahy.
Sticking with our national finances, Cantillon argues that expecting the tax boom to continue would be a mistake by the new Government, especially with Donald Trump returning to the White House.
In our first Your Money feature of the new year, Fiona Reddan looks at the measures from last October’s budget that are set to kick in this month and could boost your spending power. If you’d like to read more about the issues that affect your finances try signing up to On the Money, the weekly newsletter from our personal finance team, which will be issued every Friday to Irish Times subscribers.
In our Your Money Q&A, a reader wonders where they stand in a case where their employer offered to pay for certain postgraduate studies on the basis that they remained with the company for a specific period. The reader signed a training bond but the employer missed payments and the employee is now preparing to take up another job. Dominic Coyle offers some guidance.
Sanewashing, a term popularised in advance of the US presidential election, is already seeping through the new-year barrier into the icy embrace of 2025, ready to claim its place as the defining media trend of this decade’s miserable midpoint, writes our media columnist Laura Slattery.
Waterford-based Suir Engineering has snapped up a Scottish rival in a move that will help boost revenue to €550 million this year. Barry O’Halloran has the details.
In Me & My Money, Maria Fleming, chief executive of charity First Fortnight, admits coming late to retirement planning. “I joke that my two children are my retirement plan, but I’m not sure they see it that way,” she tells Tony Clayton-Lea.
The US stock market is expensive. Does anybody care? Stocktake offers a view.
A “behind-the-scenes” documentary about Melania Trump’s life will be unveiled in the second half of 2025 by Amazon-owned streaming service Prime Video. Might this help its owner Jeff Bezos win favour with the president-elect when he returns to the White House on January 20th? Cantillon offers a view.
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