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One third of Irish households will be generating their own electricity within 10 years, the ESB’s chief executive has predicted. Pat O’Doherty said that the company is witnessing a dramatic rise in the number of customers investing in new technologies to reduce their reliance on the national grid. However he warned that this shift to […]

Microsoft Ireland has been named as the largest exporting company on the island, pushing Google off the top spot, a report has found. The value of exports from the top five exporting companies surged almost a quarter compared with the same period last year. Microsoft’s export turnover surged 21pc from €15bn in 2014 to €18.2bn […]

The Coalition has no plans to offer any incentives to first- time buyers in the forthcoming budget. And there are also no plans by Fine Gael or the Labour Party to include sweeteners for young people struggling to get on the property ladder in their election manifestos. The news will come as a huge disappointment […]

Companies would save €1bn per year in administrative costs if the European Union adopts a common approach to corporate taxation, EU Economic and Tax Commissioner Pierre Moscovici has claimed. The former French finance minister has posted an article to his online blog calling for a mandatory EU common consolidated corporate tax base, a plan that […]

Pat O’Doherty says ESB will survive to take advantage of new market opportunities Electricity bills will come under upward pressure because of the investment needed to transform the way we consume power, according to ESB chief executive Pat O’Doherty. O’Doherty told the Sunday Independent that the single biggest policy challenge in the sector is to […]