Gabriel who? Central Bank choice prompts Google searches

Makhlouf, who has spent the past eight years heading New Zealand’s treasury department, never came up in speculation for the top job

Next Central Bank governor took aim at ‘harmful’ Irish tax practices

Gabriel Makhlouf is approved by Cabinet as the first non-Irish national to lead the Central Bank in its 76-year history

Your business week: Varadkar dangles customs union carrot over Brexiteers

More jobs for Ireland, banking culture and executive pay were also in the spotlight

Four candidates remain in race for role of Central Bank governor

Deputy governor Sharon Donnery and senior civil servant Colm O’Reardon tipped on list

Top Irish ECB official among candidates for Central Bank governor

John Fell among candidates seeking to succeed Philip Lane at regulator

Philip Lane prepares to take responsibility for avoiding ‘Japanification of Europe’

European Central Bank chief economist in waiting will take up role amid unprecedented uncertainty

Galway medtech company Aerogen secures €30m EIB loan

Company to expand manufacturing facilities, up R&D activities and take on more staff

Voxpro considering IPO in ‘not-too-distant future’

Process-outsourcing company looking at establishing fourth US office by 2020

Ireland’s financial sector ‘struggling to finance innovation’

EIB vice president tells conference it is ‘difficult to mortgage an algorithm’

Irish Ferries owner secures European finance of €155m

Funds being used to finance two ships, one of which entered service on Tuesday

Brexit is looming and time is running out for Irish businesses

Clever companies putting in place contingency plans to deal with the many threats

Brexit VAT change could close thousands of Irish firms – Ibec

Two-month wait on VAT repayment could seriously pressurise companies’ cash flow

NTR wins €84m backing from European Investment Bank

Funding to support onshore wind, solar energy and energy storage schemes

Business angels get more firepower to invest in Irish SMEs

European Angels Fund Ireland doubled to €40m with aim of supporting 100 companies

€500m in European funding for National Broadband Plan

European Investment Bank announces major financing allocation for State project

DIT expansion of Grangegorman campus to create up to 1,300 jobs

Construction set to start on new buildings for more than 10,000 students and 600 staff

European Investment Bank lent €1bn to Irish projects in 2017

Bank ready to provide more funding for social housing

Name of children’s hospital ‘unlikely to be Phoenix’ says Minister for Health

European Investment Bank loan of €490 million for National Children’s Hospital

State told to build ports and airports or face Brexit woes

‘Much higher’ investment required to sustain recovery, says European Investment Bank

SMEs get big boost as fund operators triple available finance

EIF and the SBCI have said they will provide an additional €230m to small companies

EIB to sign off on €85m investment loan for Limerick

European Investment Bank to confirm its backing for Opera Centre development

€60m loan for NUI Galway to finance ‘transformation’ of campus

European Investment Bank funding will help build new college of medicine, nursing and health

Public sector pay deal offers ‘fair’ wage growth, Donohoe says

Increased spending on infrastructure a top priority, says Minister for Finance

Leo Varadkar is set to govern as a chief - not a chairman

The Taoiseach is more direct and proactive and less diplomatic than Enda Kenny

EIB likely to fund key Irish infrastructural projects, says Noonan

Irish Ministers hold two days of discussions with EIB official in Luxembourg

EIB announces two multimillion euro forestry investments

Bank to provide €90m loan to Coillte and invest in a private forestry initiative

EIB investment commitments in Ireland topped €825m last year

European Union financial arm set to unveil support for social housing investment

European Investment Bank funds to help offset Brexit impact

Vice-president Andrew McDowell says Ireland could benefit as new office opens

UCC secures loan for ‘largest investment in our history’

EIB loan will support €240 million investment programme at University College Cork

Brexit could boost Irish life sciences sector, says Malin

Dublin-based firm moving into new phase of investing in building companies from scratch

Former Nama employee is likely to face charges

Garda intensifies investigation into the agency following Enda Farrell case

EIB to open first Irish office in bid to beef up lending

EU bank says its exposure to Ireland remains below EU average

Michael Noonan is still key to the Government’s success

Profile: The Minister for Finance will play his usual vital role in Budget 2017

Pat Leahy: Government limps a little closer to the inevitable

It’s not that trust has broken down. It never really existed in the first place

Former adviser to Taoiseach begins role as EIB vice-president

Government says nomination was made following ‘open and competitive process’

Shane Ross complained to Taoiseach over bank appointment

Minister objected to Kenny’s attempt to bypass formal process for €275,000-a-year job

Enda Kenny a ‘lame duck’ as politics grinds to a halt

Vacuum in weakening Fine Gael as early election in prospect after con of ‘new politics’

Miriam Lord: FG ladies hope lunch raises funds, not just glasses

Flanagan in salute to green jersey while Varadkar shows form in leadership race

Nomination of Kenny adviser to €270,000 role ‘is old politics’

Ex- minister Alan Kelly amazed Shane Ross has not commented on McDowell nomination

Government is beset on several fronts

Fine Gael furious over Independents’ insistence on free vote on fatal foetal abnormalities Bill

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