Pensions supremo plays hardballCantillon: Insurance industry surprised at regulator’s threat of prosecution over over EU-banned pension productSat Jul 09 2022 - 06:45
Winds of change could chill IDA’s strategyThe State’s over-reliance on US multinationals is evident in agency’s latest annual reportThu Jul 07 2022 - 05:00
Finance Ireland buys time with a €50m equity injectionChief says it might be five years before non-bank lender goes public as market turmoil puts IPO out of reachThu Jul 07 2022 - 05:00
Putting off the price of pensionsPoliticians now fear the wrath of voters over efforts to increase the State pension ageTue Jul 05 2022 - 05:55
Irish duo face battle against Spac tideCraze on Wall Street in recent years was the hottest yetTue Jul 05 2022 - 05:30
Call to leave State pension age at 66 looks like the wrong oneWhile the decision will not cause problems today or tomorrow, it would mean a bigger burden on the working population over timeSat Jul 02 2022 - 06:00
ESB’s profits could soon leave it in a political stormAll eyes will be on the financial performance of the semi-state by the end of winterSat Jul 02 2022 - 05:00
Donohoe faces headwinds following up 5% AIB share saleTaxpayers remain €5.5 billion underwater even allowing for market value of State’s remaining stakeThu Jun 30 2022 - 05:50
Dalata’s share price in retreat in spite of strong demandCantillon: Hotel group figures belie some recent commentary about excessive prices for accommodationThu Jun 30 2022 - 05:00
Budget wish lists point to a Peter Pan economic outlookTalk of halving PRSI and extending VAT cut for hospitality should be seen as fancifulTue Jun 28 2022 - 05:55
House price trends: which way is market going?MyHome and Daft reports point to two different price trajectoriesTue Jun 28 2022 - 05:00
Innovu deal spells more upheaval in insurance broker marketWexford-based company was bought by global brokerage giant Gallagher this weekSat Jun 25 2022 - 05:00
Inflation will herald a new era of competition in the Irish grocery sectorWhen times are bad, the top and bottom ends of the market do fine, but the middle gets squeezedSat Jun 25 2022 - 05:00
Companies wasting energy with focus on targets over actionIreland’s record on carbon emission curtailment suggests there’s a lot of greenwashing going onThu Jun 23 2022 - 05:50
Car owners left subsidising loss-making non-motor insuranceGeneral insurers effectively relying on motorists to cross-subsidise loss-making booksThu Jun 23 2022 - 04:41
Vaccine patent waiver: the best of a bad dealAgreement at the WTO was always going to be hard to achieve, and inevitably a compromiseTue Jun 21 2022 - 05:55
EY split promises major payday for Irish partnersBig Four firm is looking at splitting its fast-growing consulting business and floating part of it on the stock marketTue Jun 21 2022 - 05:00
What do women want? Trade unionsUnion membership ‘an increasingly female phenomenon’, according to new UCD studySat Jun 18 2022 - 07:30
Mortgage costs soaring in the United States, but will EU follow suit?US Federal Reserve rate increases have sent housing affordability plungingSat Jun 18 2022 - 07:00
Summer of discontent ahead for air travellersDublin Airport is far from the only European travel hub experiencing staffing issuesSat Jun 18 2022 - 06:30
House price slowdown brings little reliefCantillon: Sector has little expectation of a fundamental cooling of marketThu Jun 16 2022 - 05:50
‘Stealth’ news could be the answer to rising rates of news avoidanceMedia outlets must become more creative to reach audiences suffering headline exhaustionThu Jun 16 2022 - 05:00
Latte levy debate littered with half-truthsBoth sides throwing about ‘facts’ and data of deeply questionable originTue Jun 14 2022 - 05:56
Bank of Ireland’s regular tech crashes leave it on edge of customer badlandsThe bank’s website and app crashed, yet again, on MondayTue Jun 14 2022 - 05:00
Where did all the workers go?Employment growth is really strong, but demand for labour is strongerTue Jun 14 2022 - 05:00
McKillen’s battle with Qatari hotel owners could be box officeIrish developer Paddy McKillen is in dispute with the Qatari owners of the hotel group that owns Claridge’s and other high-end hotelsSat Jun 11 2022 - 06:00
Apple’s pay later signals further move into financial servicesBut buy now pay later is not without risksSat Jun 11 2022 - 05:46
Hanging up: Irish people say goodbye to landline calls … againVoice call minutes began to rise during pandemic, but we have fallen out of love with the fixed line once moreSat Jun 11 2022 - 05:00
Glen Dimplex says inflation may be cooling in its Asian supply chainCantillon: As Naughton business prepares to offload Morphy Richards to Chinese buyer, CEO notes improvement in some supply chain indicatorsThu Jun 09 2022 - 05:00
Aer Lingus has to go a bit further to attract customers to DublinCantillion: the airline is currently offering up to 20% off flights to Dublin in August from 14 destinations within EuropeThu Jun 09 2022 - 05:00
Benefits of two bus orders arriving at onceBallymena’s Wrightbus looks to be firmly on the right roadSat Jun 04 2022 - 05:00
Headline growth numbers at odds with real feel of Irish economyBuoyant GDP numbers hide contraction in consumer spending - in Ireland, we have two economiesSat Jun 04 2022 - 05:00
Pay pressure set to build on employersComments last week from the IMF strengthen the case for pay claimsThu Jun 02 2022 - 05:52
Insult to retail to call Dublin Airport a ‘glorified’ department store Cantillon: Who goes to the airport to shop anyway?Thu Jun 02 2022 - 05:00
Ireland’s corporate tax windfall: €22 billion and risingIrish Fiscal Advisory Council calculates the additional receipts that have flowed in since 2014Tue May 31 2022 - 05:45
DAA has a people problemDublin Airport operator has had a bad week and it looks likely to get worse before it gets betterMon May 30 2022 - 20:15
To split or not to split, that is the question facing EYBig Four firms are under increased regulatory scrutiny over the quality of their auditsMon May 30 2022 - 19:48
Tourism sector risks pricing itself out of the marketThe temptation to capitalise on one good year could come back to haunt the sectorSun May 29 2022 - 13:55
Government ignores concerns of businesses over latte levy at their perilThere needs to be a proper study to see if banning disposable paper cups has a better outcome for the environmentSat May 28 2022 - 05:00
Food inflation presents fresh opportunity for Aldi and Lidl to take bigger bite of Irish marketThe German discounters benefit when the grocery market's main battleground moves to priceThu May 26 2022 - 06:15
Where have all the employees gone?Cantillon: Pub sector hit by staff shortagesThu May 26 2022 - 05:00
Grant Thornton’s new family-friendly policies show how work life is changingThe firm has brought in a raft of measures to help it retain female staff in particularTue May 24 2022 - 05:55
O’Brien’s rather dismissive view of Siteserv ‘process letters’Cantillon: Bidders were prohibited from meeting with Siteserv officersSat May 21 2022 - 05:55
Public sector pay talks hugely significantAgreeing anything longer term in current discussions looks to be impossibleSat May 21 2022 - 05:30
Time to call a halt to the Siteserv inquiry?Commission has, in theory, 37 deals left to considerFri May 20 2022 - 12:41
Why rent controls have failedRent pressure zone report stands as searing indictment of Government housing policyThu May 19 2022 - 05:45
Ulster Bank chief sounds warning on Irish financial systemCantillon: Claim shared systems and utilities could make banks far more competitiveTue May 17 2022 - 05:30
Threat looms for North’s free access to EU single marketCantillon: EU leaders have reason to be sick of Brexit and Johnson government anticsTue May 17 2022 - 05:22
DAA’s Dalton Philips flies off to ready-made sandwich producerCantillon: Greencore’s lure for State airport company CEO may be linked to tastier salarySat May 14 2022 - 07:00
Truth in vaccine access row can be as tricky to find as a needleWaning demand threatens efforts to produce vaccine locally so perhaps education is the prioritySat May 14 2022 - 06:49
