Ireland is a relatively low-tax, low-spend country compared to its European peers, making it economically closer to Boston than Berlin, but this is driven, not by ideology, but by demographics, according to a new report by the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council. Eoin Burke-Kennedy has the details.
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Billionaire businessman Dermot Desmond says we should scrap MetroLink and look to AI to deliver a solution to our public transport issues in Dublin. Is he right? John McManus gives his verdict.
Estate agent CBRE has brought an almost one-acre site in Cork city centre, suitable for residential or hotel development, to the market with a guide price of €4.5 million. Colin Gleeson reports.
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Irish tourism and leisure businesses reported a fifth successive monthly decline in activity levels last month but continued to increase prices amid a slowdown in growth across the wider services sector, a survey from AIB has found. Ian Curran has the details.
An Irish mortgage and life insurance solutions fintech led by home loans expert Karl Deeter has been acquired by London-listed Software Circle in a deal worth as much as €9 million. Joe Brennan reports on the deal.
Irish data analysis specialist Advise is spending €1.8 million on a move into the UK market after growing the business at home, writes Barry O’Halloran.
