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
Rising rents and surging prices trigger ‘collapse’ in home ownershipHousing in Ireland is ‘severely unaffordable’, report by Parliamentary Budget Office saysThu Jan 13 2022 - 16:11
Talbot Hotels acquires Clonmel Park Hotel for about € 7.5mDeal for four-star Tipperary hotel is latest divestment by Tetrarch CapitalThu Jan 13 2022 - 15:03
Low paid benefit from minimum wage hikes despite ‘loss of hours’ESRI research assesses impact of minimum pay increases between 2016 and 2018Wed Jan 12 2022 - 13:17
Unemployment rate rises to 7.5% as Covid-19 rules hit hospitalityCSO figures point to rise in Republic’s jobless total after period of declineWed Jan 12 2022 - 11:41
Food and drink exports hit record €13.5bn in 2021 despite Covid and BrexitLatest Bord Bia figures suggest Irish exports last year surpassed pre-pandemic levelsWed Jan 12 2022 - 09:31
Viatel snaps up Limerick-based ActionPointIrish telecoms group makes another acquisition as market consolidation continuesWed Jan 12 2022 - 07:12
OECD inflation surges to 25-year high of 5.8%Price growth is being driven by energy prices and supply chain disruptionTue Jan 11 2022 - 19:01
World Bank warns of ‘pronounced slowdown’ over inflation and Covid variantsWashington-based institution says pandemic likely to continue to disrupt activity in near termTue Jan 11 2022 - 15:44
Switch to electric motoring could punch €5bn hole in public financesThe revenue implications of shifting away from combustion engines will be significantSun Jan 09 2022 - 14:34
