‘Very real’ prospect of Northern Ireland protocol deal, Taoiseach saysLeo Varadkar downplays prospects of agreement by 25th anniversary of Belfast Agreement in April, saying it will take a ‘couple of months’Fri Jan 20 2023 - 11:38
Sinn Féin warns British government that delaying unity poll could spark legal battleParty leader Mary Lou McDonald tells world media in London she isn’t ‘Oliver Twist’ pleading for voteThu Jan 19 2023 - 18:30
Nuance takes the day off as Scottish nationalists row with Tories in Westminster over transgender lawBoth sides revert to type as UK government limbers up for a constitutional battle with the ScotsTue Jan 17 2023 - 18:13
London Letter: The city is a bubble, afloat on its own importanceAs Britain struggles with a cost-of-living crisis, life in the capital follows a different trajectoryTue Jan 17 2023 - 16:46
EU and British government pledge to continue intensive talks on Northern Ireland protocol Growing expectation that Stormont poll will be postponed a second timeMon Jan 16 2023 - 21:15
British teachers turn up the heat as cold snap bitesThe government faces a raft of public sector pay claims, but its finances still must add upMon Jan 16 2023 - 20:15
DAA warned Government of Dublin Airport queue issues months in advance October 2021 letter to regulator that was copied to politicians warned cash squeeze would affect security and cleaning staff numbersSat Jan 07 2023 - 05:00
Ireland’s economic path suddenly seems much clearer than Britain’sThis time it is our turn to watch as our neighbour is buffeted by formidable challengesFri Jan 06 2023 - 05:15
European stocks make strong start to 2023 as hopes rise that inflation has peakedIseq index in Dublin finishes ahead by 2.6 per centTue Jan 03 2023 - 19:35
Housing market slows but buyers still ‘stretched’ by high pricesReport from property website Myhome.ie says "froth" in the market could continue to unwind early in 2023Tue Jan 03 2023 - 05:00
Digicel wins eight-year legal battle with US rival it accused of fraudDenis O'Brien's Caribbean telco is awarded more than $10m over 'bypass fraud'Tue Jan 03 2023 - 05:00
Supermarkets gird for price war as inflation bitesThe return to normal trading after the pandemic was short-lived as the war in Ukraine fuelled the cost-of-living crisisMon Jan 02 2023 - 05:00
Time to end debate over tourism’s special 9% VAT rate Minister for Finance Michael McGrath must decide what to do about the stray dog of Irish fiscal politics in the coming weeksFri Dec 30 2022 - 05:15
High Court orders Mediahuis and Leslie Buckley to furnish lists of confidential documents related to INM19 investigationBuckley’s request for earlier cut-off date on discovery is also denied in case taken by Karl Brophy and Gavin O’ReillyFri Dec 16 2022 - 15:23
Medtech firm plans €15m finance round to fund expansionDermView, whose backers include former AIB director Bernard Somers, is also eyeing a push into BritainFri Dec 16 2022 - 12:18
How is there such high demand for charity in one of Europe’s strongest economies?The economy is holding up better than almost any in Europe yet, in some corners things are as bad as they have ever beenFri Dec 16 2022 - 05:00
Tetrarch plans €20m cemetery on old Citywest golf courseHotel owner submits plan for more than 8,000 burial plots on west Dublin siteThu Dec 15 2022 - 06:00
Mobile spectrum auction for next-generation 5G brings in €448m in bidsFull awarding process by Comreg is on hold pending a legal action taken by mobile operator ThreeWed Dec 14 2022 - 18:54
An Post row with UK Post Office causing return of online purchases Implementation of post-Brexit customs rules triggers dispute among heavyweight carriersTue Dec 13 2022 - 05:09
Porterhouse wants to build bedrooms on top of its flagship Dublin brewpub as suitors try buy itMMA star Conor McGregor is believed to be among those who have expressed an interest in buying the pubFri Dec 09 2022 - 05:45
ESRI urges State to issue more visas to non-EU construction workersResearch paper also suggests domestic banking sector could struggle to finance the expansion in construction necessary to hit housing targetsFri Dec 09 2022 - 05:00
Booking an NCT with Ireland’s monopoly provider is Waiting for Godot on wheelsApplus, the sole provider of NCTs in the State, has little incentive to stump up to solve the current delaysFri Dec 09 2022 - 05:00
Central Bank research suggests pace of wage growth may have peakedData culled from Indeed.com job ads suggests risk of a wage-price spiral may be recedingThu Dec 08 2022 - 05:00
Huge north Dublin housing scheme faces court challenge ‘regardless’ of plan to scale it backCannon Kirk’s €360m Corballis East scheme in Donabate has run into significant local oppositionTue Dec 06 2022 - 19:42
Irish online wine start-up WineSpark worth €3.1m after first 18 monthsCut-price wine buying club generates €1 million in sales in its first full year of operationSat Dec 03 2022 - 05:00
Renewed worries over US rate rises dampen marketsBetter than expected US jobs data leads to fears the Fed may go harder for longer on ratesFri Dec 02 2022 - 19:46
Belfast: A city of two halves moves towards post-pandemic economic regenerationBelfast is recovering after the pandemic, yet issues remainFri Dec 02 2022 - 05:00
Don’t cry for Seán Quinn – even if he cannot stop doing it for himselfCaveat: I prefer to save my sympathy for those who really deserve it in the dark tale of what happened to Quinn’s former business empireFri Dec 02 2022 - 05:00
SSE sued by investors in row over sale of €120m Offaly windfarmBritish energy giant accused of using obvious ‘error’ in contract to avoid making payment of up to €45mWed Nov 30 2022 - 05:00
Markets cautious as slide in tech stocks outweighs hopes that China could ease Covid curbsIseq index in Dublin slips marginally into the red despite buoyed bank stocksTue Nov 29 2022 - 18:52
Mark Paul: Minimum wage, maximum fuss but are we missing the point?Plans for the minimum wage to reach a living wage-level by 2026 are trundling ahead, and despite what the critics say, it won’t mean the end of the worldFri Nov 25 2022 - 12:03
Mater Private group warns insurers must stump up for rising cost of patient careGroup books operating profit of €13.3m for 2021 — up by 77%, according to company accountsFri Nov 25 2022 - 05:00
Mercedes-Benz importer repays Covid subsidies to State after sales surgeO'Flaherty Holdings faced a storm of criticism a year ago for claiming taxpayer subsidies while also paying its owners large dividendsFri Nov 25 2022 - 05:00
Central Bank warns finance sector to be fair to customers during cost crisisRegulator writes to chief executives listing obligations to hard-pressed customersSat Nov 19 2022 - 05:00
Television rights firm seeks payment from pubs and shops showing news channels to customers or staffMotion Picture Licensing Company says news can be covered by copyright law for television shown in publicSat Nov 19 2022 - 05:00
Food giant boss still obsessing about those small details Independents form the backbone of Noel Keeley’s Musgrave as he charts a course through the cost-of-living crisis after the pandemicFri Nov 18 2022 - 12:30
Musgrave profits jump as sales top €4.5bnSuperValu group sales reached €3.5 billion last year including all the group's independent retailersFri Nov 18 2022 - 05:00
Mark Paul: Over-reliance on hotels for refugees is a slow-moving train that will crash in 2023More than one fifth of all tourist beds are occupied by refugees, and the tourism industry simply can’t afford to let this continueFri Nov 18 2022 - 05:00
IDA colluded in ‘lie’ to get credit for jobs leadsLegal documents show IDA executive falsely claimed to have met foreign investors so that rival group couldn't claim the credit.Wed Nov 16 2022 - 05:00
Tourism industry warns of potential €1bn cost if refugee numbers in hotels and B&Bs riseTourism industry will call on the Government to reduce to 12-15% the proportion of tourism accommodation being used to house refugees from Ukraine and elsewhereWed Nov 16 2022 - 05:00
Emails, ‘lies’, robots and pencils: inside IDA Ireland’s bitter dispute with Terry Clune’s Connect IrelandArbitration documents show how tech entrepreneur’s job-finding organisation fell out with State agency for cutting it out of credit for new investmentsWed Nov 16 2022 - 05:00
Big Tech’s Irish finances are as illusory as Celtic Tiger house prices and we all know itThere is no way that these companies can be as productive as the headline figures suggests. Reality has to bite eventuallyFri Nov 11 2022 - 05:00
Goldman Sachs generated €250m last year from Celtic Tiger property loan portfolios, but paid little taxThree entities affiliated to the investment bank bought up tranches of loans from Irish banksTue Nov 08 2022 - 18:22
Coke bottling partner’s profits and dividends rise as Irish staff numbers fallCoca-Cola HBC Ireland, which distributes Coke and other products, paid dividends last year of €30mMon Nov 07 2022 - 12:42
Ireland must tread carefully with dance-craze Chinese platform TikTokTikTok invests heavily here but things could get awkward if its relations with policymakers in the US or Europe deteriorateFri Nov 04 2022 - 05:15
Fears over hawkish central bankers weigh on market sentimentIseq index drops 0.9 per cent, dragged lower by the owner of Paddy Power bookmakerThu Nov 03 2022 - 18:54
Sales and profits fall at Rohan family’s property groupDevelopment group founded by Ken Rohan sitting on shareholders' funds of close to €170mWed Nov 02 2022 - 05:00
Varadkar steers clear of legal dispute between IDA and Connect IrelandDepartment says Minister for Enterprise has not seen transcripts of evidence concerning dispute involving State agencyMon Oct 31 2022 - 05:15
Nestlé Ireland makes €70m loss after writing down value of Limerick baby formula plant Sales from the Wyeth factory in Askeaton fell 30%Mon Oct 31 2022 - 05:11
‘Countries that have crashes are those that follow one school of economics too closely’Ha-Joon Chang, author of Edible Economics, talks to Mark Paul ahead of his appearance at Kilkenomics next monthSat Oct 29 2022 - 05:00
