Energy Crisis

Micheál Martin also confirms welfare recipients and pensioners can expect Christmas bonus

Households need help to break free from home heating oil for good

Inside Politics podcast with Hugh Linehan

Measure tackles reliance on fossil fuels – especially kerosene – amid rising prices

Pearse Doherty warns of more increases in electricity prices before Budget 2027 and criticises cut in energy credits

Donald Trump ‘caused current energy crisis, not carbon tax’, Labour claims

Earnings ‘not on the basis of enterprise or innovation’ at a time when households and businesses face pressure

Interest rates on the rise in US and euro zone while borrowing costs touch levels not seen since 2007

Electricity demand rise driven primarily by 9% increase in demand from large energy users including data centres

Yemeni militant group claims it shot down a Saudi F-15 fighter jet

Jack Chambers was speaking at Dublin Castle in advance of an EU presidency meeting

Philip Lane says latest move was measured adjustment to significant inflation issue

Ministers have raised hopes of a giveaway budget - but events are turning against them

At Dublin think-in the party calls for 1 per cent levy on electricity use in data centres

Supplier says new charges will come into effect for its 200,000 Irish customers from October 12th

Government could come up with a more sensible and environmentally sound policy

Brent crude advances as escalation in US-Iran war feeds fears of renewed global supply crunch

The drivers of Ireland’s high-cost economy are many but two stand out

Cost pressures intensify but remain below earlier peak, says AIB

Reduction of 30c per litre for diesel and 25c for petrol to remain in place until October 31st

The booklet provides tips on being prepared for extreme weather, prolonged power outage and other emergencies

Forum to bring regulators and the businesses they regulate together ‘should meet quarterly to discuss cost of business’, report recommends

Squaring that particular cost-of-living circle could blow a hole in the budgetary arithmetic

Ireland could learn much from a nursery and research institute in the Netherlands

Problems mount for national grid and regulator

Companies will bid in an auction early next year to supply energy into grid from new power plants

Nuclear waste never goes away; its forever storage is part of the cost of nuclear energy

A modern conventional plant that began operating in Finland in 2024 is proposed as a potential case study

Four killed in suspected Houthi attack on Egyptian vessel in Red Sea

Diesel up 19 cents and petrol up 9 cents from July, AA Ireland says, with further rises expected

Vital public investment has too often been sacrificed to protect current services and minimise tax bills

It is naive to think Ireland’s interests can be divorced from the outcome of Russia’s war in Ukraine

Airline blames higher fuel costs and tough competition on North Atlantic routes for shortfall

Climate Change Advisory Council also warns against further delay of rises in carbon tax

UN’s António Guterres says Middle East being pushed to ‘edge of the unimaginable’ amid mounting fears over conflict’s trajectory

Trump has renewed threats to attack Iranian infrastructure

A 160-year-old economic theory is key to the AI revolution

Oil prices jump 30% this month; US widens scope of strikes on Iran

Wholesale electricity prices decreased by 6.2 per cent last month, but remain much higher than last year

Washington continues attacks on Gulf nation with Tehran launching strikes at US sites in Bahrain, Kuwait and Jordan