Higher summer air fares, hotelier gloom and ‘rooftop revolution’The best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business deskMon Feb 26 2024 - 06:31
Tracking down lost certificates for shares my dead father bought Q&A: A lot has happened to the bank in the 15 or so years since your father bought these shares but there is a process for finding themSun Feb 25 2024 - 13:26
Barretstown chief Dee Ahearn: ‘It needed to be run like a business and it wasn’t run like a business’From the outset, Dee Ahearn has focused on making the charity’s income sustainable and its governance irreproachable so that its campers can rely on itFri Feb 23 2024 - 06:00
Summer jobs in childhood can come back to bite at pension timeQ&A: New way of assessing eligibility for State pension will remove some of the unfairness of the current systemTue Feb 20 2024 - 05:00
KPMG calls for increase in tax-free pension ceiling and lump sumsStandard fund threshold set at €2m in 2014 needs to increase to account for inflation, life expectancy, annuity costs and demographics, Big Four firm saysTue Feb 20 2024 - 05:00
Can a widow benefit from pension she forgot to claim 25 years ago?Pension Q&A: People need to apply for the widow(er)’s pension as it is not paid automatically unless you are a dependent adult of a State pensionerSun Feb 18 2024 - 18:12
Workplace pensions: lessons from the UK could improve Irish auto-enrolment planReport on UK mandatory pensions shows they have transformed the pension savings landscape within 12 yearsFri Feb 16 2024 - 14:43
Explainer: Ireland’s biggest private landlord Ires Reit’s crunch EGM: what is going on?What is happening at Ireland’s biggest private sector landlord and why?Fri Feb 16 2024 - 11:10
From corsets to craft beer: CSO’s social history The best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business deskThu Feb 15 2024 - 07:17
Call to pause planning clock, O’Brien sells Beacon, and FBD surprises again on the upsideThe best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business deskWed Feb 14 2024 - 06:46
Couple approaching 80s looking to reduce Fair Deal exposure Q&A: Transferring properties to family members will lower what you pay for nursing home care but only if five years has passedTue Feb 13 2024 - 05:30
Ires voting glitch may have hit up to 90% of institutional EGM ballotsVision Capital, looking to unseat board and break up the business, wants answers on ‘unprecedented’ announcementMon Feb 12 2024 - 17:20
Stiffing students; private sector wage demands; and breaking capitalism’s rules and winningThe best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business deskMon Feb 12 2024 - 06:30
Construction sector increases hiring despite continuing slowdown Index shows seventh successive month of contraction in activity and 12th month in 13 dating back to October 2022Mon Feb 12 2024 - 05:00
Staying onside with Revenue while gifting a young child some moneyQ&A: Bank and An Post rules about accounts for very young children cause concernSun Feb 11 2024 - 15:16
One in 10 homeowners face mortgage payments past 70, survey findsPeople are buying homes at a later age, giving them less time in their working lives to repay the loansFri Feb 09 2024 - 05:00
Founder Michael Burke sells Chanelle Pharma to UK private equity groupStaff briefed that Exponent has acquired largest generic drug manufacturer in State in deal worth about €300mWed Feb 07 2024 - 10:45
Will banks entertain a mortgage to our son on top of a big family loan?Q&A: If priority is to facilitate son’s ability to buy a home, structure of family financing might need a second lookTue Feb 06 2024 - 06:00
The trouble with health insurance in Ireland, and what could be done about itAs the private health cover rises sharply, insurers need to be more proactive in telling customers when cover changes so they do not face surprise demand for payment upfrontFri Feb 02 2024 - 12:06
Landlord charging extra €4,000 to rebook student accommodation from August and we have to sign up for 51 weeks Q&A: Mother faced with 40% rise in cost for child’s student accommodationTue Jan 30 2024 - 05:15
PRSI loophole could see employers paying staff more to take State pensionIbec warns that legislation on equality and pay transparency may limit scope for employers, many of whom also have mandatory retirement agesTue Jan 30 2024 - 05:00
Can I get Help to Buy support if my partner is helping with home loan payments?Q&A: Rules around the support scheme are strict and failure to observe them risks a Revenue claw backSun Jan 28 2024 - 11:00
Housing targets cannot be met without international funding, construction cost experts sayMitchell McDermott believes short-term Government support for housebuilding is unsustainable and that innovative solutions to attract and accommodate construction workers are vitalSat Jan 27 2024 - 06:00
Cost of living makes workers fear for retirement, survey findsMany workers are likely to fall short of income expectations when they stop work, research suggestsSat Jan 27 2024 - 05:05
We’re having trouble selling family home to meet Fair Deal debtQ&A: Failure to meet the timelines set down in the terms of the loan can see the sum owed risingTue Jan 23 2024 - 05:15
Irish company gets support from US regulator for breakthrough bone adhesiveShannon group Biomimetic Innovations has developed glue to accelerate healing for patients after fracturesMon Jan 22 2024 - 05:00
Returning emigrants worry about meeting cost of medical careEnsuring you have basic things, like GP care, can be very worrying for older people returning home after a working life abroadSun Jan 21 2024 - 14:52
Get into the switching habit if you are serious about saving moneyLooking at your bank savings, energy bills and insurance cover are no brainers even if you’re reluctant to tinker with health insurance and your mortgageFri Jan 19 2024 - 12:07
Will giving our daughter a helping hand to get on the property ladder cause tax problems?Q&A: How you frame the money you are handing over to your child can lower their exposure to taxTue Jan 16 2024 - 05:15
‘Will Mum’s nursing home care leave my son and I homeless?’Q&A: Woman worries that cost of Fair Deal care if her mother needs long-term care could see her forced out of only home she has ever knownSun Jan 14 2024 - 11:51
Good year for Enterprise Ireland, first-time buyers and Sharon HorganThe best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business deskWed Jan 10 2024 - 06:53
Executors to my will are getting older but I don’t want to offend anyoneQ&A: Adding additional executors to act alongside, or as an alternative to, people who have been in place for a long time is sensible not insensitiveTue Jan 09 2024 - 05:15
Can my wife get a widow’s pension alongside the old age pension when I die?Q&A: couple who each qualify for State contributory pension worry about finances when one has goneSun Jan 07 2024 - 12:55
Tara Mine offers redundancy as part of rescue plan Management and group of unions will meet next week at Workplace Relations Commission in effort to restart operations by second quarter of the yearFri Jan 05 2024 - 19:21
Public sector pension bill surges 17% in three years to €175.7bnActuarial report notes bill will start to fall from 2040 as impact of newer recruits paying towards their pension takes holdWed Jan 03 2024 - 16:25
How to get your finances back on track in 2024Well done on what you got right in your personal finances this year; 2024 will offer opportunity to look againFri Dec 22 2023 - 11:51
Pension schemes face regulatory clampdown if failing to engage on new rulesFinal deadline for compliance with stricter and more costly rules on scheme governance and risk management comes at year-endWed Dec 20 2023 - 05:00
Will moving into grandparents’ home leave me with a tax bill?Q&A: Dwelling house relief does make provision for tax free inheritance of property but it very much depends on your circumstancesTue Dec 19 2023 - 05:15
Company helpline that’s been no help at all for confused consumersQ&A: Angry CRH shareholders say they have been misinformed by company as they struggle with US tax and dollar dividendsSun Dec 17 2023 - 14:41
What each GAA club will receive following JP McManus’s €32m donationDepending on the circumstances and the tax paid by JP McManus in both jurisdictions, his largesse could be even more valuable for clubsThu Dec 14 2023 - 19:48
Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk buys Irish drug manufacturing plant in €85m dealDanish weight loss and diabetes specialist is looking to develop a tablet form of its blockbuster obesity treatmentsThu Dec 14 2023 - 12:21
CRH gets wires crossed with dollar cheques to Irish shareholders Errors in payment of first dividend cheque under New York Stock Exhcange listing only adds to frustration felt by many small shareholdersTue Dec 12 2023 - 05:15
Verizon adds Irish jobs, breaches of tipping rules and construction sector slowdownThe best news, analysis and comment from The Irish Times business deskMon Dec 11 2023 - 06:14
Stay-at-home parents are providing services worth €54,590, says studyMore than nine in 10 people sharply undervalue what it would cost to care for home and family in absence of home-based parentMon Dec 11 2023 - 05:00
Mortgage customers left in dark on tax implications of goodwill paymentQ&A: Ulster Bank is paying 4,500 customers as it forces them off offset mortgage product in order to sell their loans as it shuts down Irish businessSun Dec 10 2023 - 16:24
Irish workers’ sketchy knowledge about pensions could cost them dearlyPensions in Ireland: Reluctance to accept risk and failure to realise how long your fund needs to last make planning for retirement unnecessarily difficultFri Dec 08 2023 - 11:33
New blood pressure therapy a major boost for Medtronic’s Galway plant Global supplies of catheters for new renal denervation device seen as a potential blockbuster will be manufactured at Irish factoryThu Dec 07 2023 - 06:00
Q&A: Is it possible second-hand properties will be included in the Help to Buy scheme?Help to Buy refunds buyers up to €30,000 of value of their home, but only if it is a new buildTue Dec 05 2023 - 05:15
Pfizer hails Ireland as ‘industrial powerhouse’ in life sciencesAlbert Bourla, chief executive of US pharma giant, accepts IDA Ireland’s Special Recognition Award on behalf of the companyMon Dec 04 2023 - 18:22
Call for action as list of medicines with supply issues jumps 87% Ireland should compile essential medicines list and use available pricing tools to make market more attractive, says generics specialist Azure PharmaMon Dec 04 2023 - 05:00
