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
US markets optimism drives European values into positive territoryDublin’s Iseq index advances on the back of big banks and other heavyweight stocksFri Oct 28 2022 - 19:05
Ireland’s night-time economy is in genuine peril - why were licensing reforms so long coming?Government’s proposals for overhauling the licensing laws and extending pub and club opening hours is far-reaching but necessaryFri Oct 28 2022 - 05:20
Dermot Desmond agrees €65m bailout of Canadian diamond minerBusinessman has agreed to swap Mountain Province Diamond loan notes due next month for a new tranche due in three years timeFri Oct 28 2022 - 05:00
C&C sees ‘resilient’ first half, but warns of challenges aheadRevenue for September was 5% lowerThu Oct 27 2022 - 07:54
Markets rise as traders dare to hope central banks will ease off rate hikesIseq index up by only a quarter of 1% as banks fail to fire while downbeat guidance from Microsoft and Alphabet hit tech stocksWed Oct 26 2022 - 18:50
‘Inertia’ among KBC and Ulster Bank switchers means banks must do more Of more than 850,000 accounts still open at the two departing institutions, around 300,000 are users’ main accounts increasing their risk of disruptionWed Oct 26 2022 - 18:12
Former chief justice Frank Clarke mediates ‘INM 19′ casesNewspaper publisher Mediahuis Ireland has settled several legal cases brought over illegal trawl of emailsWed Oct 26 2022 - 05:00
Irish whiskey sales up 21% on last year but small producers hit by glass bottles and malt price hikesIrish Whiskey Association’s international trade report cites supply chain issues as a major threatWed Oct 26 2022 - 05:00
Aldi ‘frustrated’ in search for Dublin outlet sites The company insists it will not overpay for sites in the capital, where many of its rivals are better representedSat Oct 22 2022 - 06:00
Global hotel brands check in to Dublin but sector faces big challengesCapital is a magnet for latest big brands but inflation, staffing and cuts to disposable income mean road ahead is far from easyFri Oct 21 2022 - 05:15
We should thank the central bankers for not easing mortgage rules years agoIf the rules had been loosened sooner or, worse, not adopted at all, house prices would now be even higher with many borrowers in bigger trouble as rates riseFri Oct 21 2022 - 05:00
Equity markets calm after Truss resignationShares rise as the British prime minister announces her resignationThu Oct 20 2022 - 19:40
Mediahuis settles several data breach claimsFormer Independent News & Media firm sets aside close to €10m for legal casesThu Oct 20 2022 - 05:00
Concrete levy to be cut to 5% and delayed until September next yearMinister for Finance says charge, designed to cover cost of repairing building defects, will be in place ‘for the foreseeable future’Tue Oct 18 2022 - 17:56
Supermarkets score highly in customer service research while utilities and banks rank poorlyCredit unions top annual rankings for eighth year in a rowTue Oct 18 2022 - 05:15
Britain’s fiscal U-turn calms market jitters as banks and real estate lift European stocksIseq in Dublin rose by 2.5 per cent as big hitters finished the session ahead and large banks rose amid more stable atmosphereMon Oct 17 2022 - 20:16
Cardinal Capital invests €30m in Northern Ireland kitchens companyUform will use investment to grow the business in Ireland and the UKMon Oct 17 2022 - 17:51
Fuel imports from Britain soar as economy recovers after CovidOfficial statistics suggest the pharmaceuticals industry is helping to drive a rise in exportsMon Oct 17 2022 - 13:40
Irish trade unions edge closer to Holy Grail of mandatory recognition by employers - but issues remainA working group has told the Government that employers should be forced by court order to deal with trade unions. But turning that into a reality is still some way awayFri Oct 07 2022 - 05:00
Dermot Desmond owed more than €30m by loss-making eSpatial SolutionsDublin-headquartered geomapping business has racked up losses of €40.8 millionWed Oct 05 2022 - 18:52
No let-up in State’s corporate tax boom as monthly receipts double in September to €2bnState took in almost as much last month in taxes from business as it did from taxing workers’ payTue Oct 04 2022 - 18:36
Brody Sweeney’s Camile Thai takeaways delivered a surge in growth in 2021Accounts for the group’s seven company-operated sites show profits jumped by a third last year to nearly €574,000Tue Oct 04 2022 - 16:03
Tourism and hospitality staffing crisis easing as employers hike pay ratesFáilte Ireland research suggests shortage is still hampering the sector but it has started to easeTue Oct 04 2022 - 05:00
Markets gain amid hope central banks will slow rate hikes due to weak economic dataThe Iseq index in Dublin rose by almost 0.5 per centMon Oct 03 2022 - 18:46
Housing market beginning to ‘cool off’, MyHome.ie saysHouse price growth slowed to 7.8 per cent as the summer endedMon Oct 03 2022 - 06:15
Deloitte Ireland revenues surge to €429m but client sentiment ‘more cautious’The bulk of the firm's growth in Ireland was driven by its consulting wingMon Oct 03 2022 - 05:30
Debts of bust businesses to top €2bn in 2022 and are rising fast, report findsPwC says insolvency rate in Ireland is currently one-third of the UKMon Oct 03 2022 - 05:00
National Lottery operator uses nearly all unclaimed prizes to boost advertising budgetAbout €120m of unclaimed prizes between 2015 and 2021 were used for 'marketing' while just €2 million was used to top up prizesFri Sept 30 2022 - 18:50
Mica redress should not require concrete levy, ESRI saysCost of various building defect redress schemes, which could hit €6bn, could be "socialised" with windfall revenues, says economist Barra RoantreeFri Sept 30 2022 - 17:34
Debate over 9% VAT is Irish tourism’s Neverending Story and it isn’t finished yetLeo Varadkar’s intervention after the budget this week seemed calculated to keep the issue on the tableFri Sept 30 2022 - 05:00
Markets roiled by fears over inflation and further steep interest rate hikesThe Iseq in Dublin fell heavily, with Bank of Ireland prominent in a sea of redThu Sept 29 2022 - 19:38
Number of mortgage approvals to buy homes falls compared with 2021Industry data shows surge in mortgage switchers and those fixing to escape interest rate hikesThu Sept 29 2022 - 06:00
Minister wanted tourism’s VAT rate kept at 9% and says decision to raise it will face ‘review’Tourism industry hopes a change in Taoiseach and Minister for Finance at the end of the year will preface a decision to stop the rate reverting up to 13.5 per centWed Sept 28 2022 - 13:04
