Category: Syndicated

The Minister for Finance has said that changes to personal taxation will be a “central element” of a just over €1.1 billion tax package that will form part of next week’s Budget. “While there are a number of different priorities I want to address as part of that, the central element of the tax package […]

A company controlled by businessman Larry Goodman is to make up to €6.35m available to Barryroe Offshore Energy (BOE), which is currently in examinership, as part of a rescue package. The development comes as BOE announced that Chief Financial Officer, Colin Christie, has stood down and left the company. In a statement to the stock […]

Rising wages in the euro zone are underpinning inflation in the bloc but wage growth should moderate in the coming months, the European Central Bank’s chief economist Philip Lane said today. Professor Lane told an event in the Lithuanian capital Vilnius that the ECB will only know around Easter next year if wage growth is […]

The manufacturing sector experienced some renewed headwinds in September which saw the index going back into contractionary mode having bounced back in August. The headline AIB Ireland Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index – a composite single-figure indicator of manufacturing performance – fell to 49.6 in September from the six month high of 50.8 recorded in August. […]

The Irish property market is experiencing a rebound with a period of falling house prices – seen in the early months of 2023 – coming to an end as the year entered its second half. The latest report from the property website MyHome.ie captured asking price inflation nationally running at an annual pace of just […]

The Irish property market is experiencing a rebound with a period of falling house prices – seen in the early months of 2023 – coming to an end as the year entered its second half. The latest report from the property website MyHome.ie captured asking price inflation nationally running at an annual pace of just […]

The Government is urging companies to make their annual return filings early ahead of the peak filing period next month, following the introduction of new identification requirements for directors. Around 80,000 businesses will be due to file their returns to the Companies Registration Office (CRO) by November 25 this year. But as that date falls […]

Inflation is estimated to have risen to an annual rate of 5% in September, according to the latest “flash” estimate from the Central Statistics Office. This compares to 4.9% in August and marks the second month in a row that inflation has risen. Inflation is estimated to have risen marginally by 0.1% from August to […]

Demand for property is holding up, despite interest rate increases, and an ongoing supply shortage is supporting prices, the latest House Price Report from property listings website daft.ie suggests. The report captured a 1.1% increase in asking prices for properties in the three months to September compared to the prior three month period. In the […]

There was a huge drop in the number of people switching their mortgages in August compared to the same time last year, new figures show. The latest report from Banking and Payments Federation Ireland reveals an almost 80% drop in switching and remortgage activity. Just over 300 mortgages were approved for this group in August, […]