The Banking Inquiry: our first chance to hear directly from those caught up in the crash‘The inquiry deals with the single greatest crisis to confront the State since the second World War’Wed Dec 17 2014 - 17:00
ESRI urges caution on applying loan capsCentral Bank says Dublin house prices gaining at rate close to pre-crash peakWed Dec 17 2014 - 01:00
ESRI questions Central Bank moves to dampen housing marketThink tank says restricting mortgage lending could curtail housing supplyWed Dec 17 2014 - 00:00
Simmering political drama leaves markets unperturbedBorrowing costs continue to fall despite the surge in support for anti-establishment forcesFri Dec 12 2014 - 01:08
Unemployed worst affected by budgets, says ESRI reportBudgets since crash hit those without jobs while Budget 2015 favoured high earnersFri Dec 12 2014 - 00:00
Analysis: Growth may have tapered off, but it remains impressiveNo ‘dramatic heroics’ but Irish economy still stronger than rest of euro zoneThu Dec 11 2014 - 13:36
Irish economy grew by 3.5% in the third quarterGDP increased by 4.9% in the first nine months of 2014, while GNP rose by 3.5%Thu Dec 11 2014 - 11:00
Banks push to confront mortgage-holders in arrearsCentral Bank figures suggest banks proposed solutions for 93% of cases before OctoberWed Dec 10 2014 - 01:00
Tax levels in Ireland lag OECD averageBurden of taxation rose 1% to 28.3% last year compared with 34.1% OECD averageWed Dec 10 2014 - 01:00
Ireland’s relationship with EU plunges to low ebb after U-turn on water meteringRevised water charges create conflict as troika pays Dublin a post-bailout visitMon Dec 08 2014 - 16:51
EY warns of constrained budgets for several yearsGrowth in Republic to outpace North and Britain for 10 years, says accounting firmMon Dec 08 2014 - 01:00
Troika rebuked by Government over water chargesEuropean Commission officials effectively told to ‘butt out’ of local political debateMon Dec 08 2014 - 01:00
Standard & Poor’s upgrades Ireland’s debt ratingAgency expects economy to grow by more than foreseenFri Dec 05 2014 - 17:37
Banking inquiry to begin on December 17thCentral Bank governer Prof Patrick Honohan’s appearance postponedFri Dec 05 2014 - 01:04
Economics: Wait goes on for ECB presses to rollDraghi pointed to the success of quantitative easing in the US and BritainFri Dec 05 2014 - 01:00
Analysis: ECB may be nudging towards QE at lastTime could be running out for Draghi’s efforts to bring Germans on boardThu Dec 04 2014 - 17:32
Northern Ireland offered deal to set own corporation tax rateOsborne says power will be granted if Stormont can agree on budget cutsThu Dec 04 2014 - 09:52
Analysis: Osborne’s tax move creates knotty questions south of the BorderDonegal jobs heading for Derry would not please the CoalitionWed Dec 03 2014 - 23:01
Business in Republic confident in face of mooted NI tax reductionDepartment of Finance ‘supportive’ of making island more competitiveWed Dec 03 2014 - 23:01
Rehab withdraws €1.5bn claim against State over lotteryDevelopment follows appointment of new board at the disabilities groupWed Dec 03 2014 - 08:53
Nama picks up pace of repayments with €1bn bond dealMove comes as agency backs the €150m redevelopment of Boland’s Mill’sTue Dec 02 2014 - 08:47
Voters face stark choice, warns KennyCoalition parties target Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil ahead of next electionSat Nov 29 2014 - 01:01
Coalition shakes off water debacle with policy attack on OppositionGovernment adopting offensive posture as it seeks to regain initiativeSat Nov 29 2014 - 01:00
Michael Noonan supports France over EU sanctionsFrench minister for finance in Dublin for talks over fiscal guidelinesSat Nov 29 2014 - 01:00
Government’s capacity for corrective reforms has diedWarnings from various quarters indicate new fiscal plan is not quite risk-freeFri Nov 28 2014 - 01:00
EU now making waves over ‘green diesel’ for boatsCommission taking Ireland to Europe’s highest court for not properly applying taxThu Nov 27 2014 - 01:00
Analysis: ECB flags willingness to proceed with quantitative easingConcern that programme would not go far enough to boost euro zoneThu Nov 27 2014 - 01:00
Markets anticipate ECB stimulus planGlobal markets hover at elevated levels as rumours of quantitative easing mountWed Nov 26 2014 - 01:00
Troika urges Ireland to intensify further deficit reductionsBudget 2015 ‘makes less progress than desirable’ according to European officialsTue Nov 25 2014 - 11:33
ECB and EU Commission say State has ‘important challenges’Government advised to have ‘additional’ fiscal measures ready in case of future risksFri Nov 21 2014 - 16:51
Troika raises concerns over Ireland's new water schemeDecision to suspend metered charges was surprise to European CommissionFri Nov 21 2014 - 11:27
Water charge hysteria a pseudo-crisisOpinion: State has faced three crises since crash but this is not one of themFri Nov 21 2014 - 03:00
NTMA debt sale strengthens Government’s position in repaying IMF loansAuction completed as Swedish cabinet approved IMF debt dealThu Nov 20 2014 - 18:29
Icelandic banker jailed for actions during recessionFormer Landsbanki chief Sigurjon Arnason receives a one-year sentence but nine months suspendedThu Nov 20 2014 - 01:00
State cleared to pay IMF loans early after Swedish voteNext steps in repayment process could come next weekWed Nov 19 2014 - 16:19
Troika legal reforms now face delaysLegislation will break ban on solicitors and barristers working in same practiceWed Nov 19 2014 - 09:13
Swedish vote set to allow State pay IMF debt earlyCountry gave €600m in bilateral loans to IrelandWed Nov 19 2014 - 08:14
ECB pledge boosts European marketsAIB stock falls after warning from Minister on overvaluation of bankMon Nov 17 2014 - 19:43
AIB and other lenders can make plans to refinance after EU rulingEuropean Banking Authority says lenders have right to take on ‘higher quality’ debtSat Nov 15 2014 - 01:00
Irish vote against sovereign debt mechanism puzzlingMinister for Finance Michael Noonan ‘concerned’ over United Nation’s resolutionFri Nov 14 2014 - 18:13
Troika to raise property market policies and water debacleEU-IMF team return to Dublin next week for second post-bailout inspection of yearThu Nov 13 2014 - 01:05
MEP to call for mortgages with 10-year fixed ratesBrian Hayes will tell forum that introduction of long-term fixed rate home loans would help stabilise property marketTue Nov 11 2014 - 01:00
Irish banks increase scrutiny of Russian accountsIrish institutions now scrutinising all flows of money from Russian sources as ‘high risk’Tue Nov 11 2014 - 01:00
Oireachtas banking inquiry faces legal hurdle over ECBInquiry faces prospect of challenge in European Court of JusticeSat Nov 08 2014 - 08:26
Claim that ECB bounced us into bailout does not stack upGovernment’s refusal to face up to banking dilemma was seen as irresponsible follyFri Nov 07 2014 - 20:54
Letters between Brian Lenihan and Trichet pivotal in Irish historyThe Trichet letters reveal the huge pressure put on the Irish governmentFri Nov 07 2014 - 09:47
ECB says Irish policymakers to blame for economic crashBank denies Ireland pushed into bailout programme by TrichetFri Nov 07 2014 - 08:30
Mario Draghi insists ECB did not force Ireland into a bailout in 2010Michael Noonan says he would welcome attendance at Oireachtas inquiry by Jean-Claude TrichetFri Nov 07 2014 - 01:00
Bailout caused by Irish domestic crisis, says ECBBank dismisses claim Trichet letter forced Ireland into bail-out, publishes more lettersThu Nov 06 2014 - 19:30
Markets boosted by US mid-term election resultsAer Lingus, Ryanair, C&C and Smurfit Kappa are the main points of interest in DublinThu Nov 06 2014 - 01:00
