Concerns at increasing demands on electricity grid
Ireland’s electricity grid is facing an increased prospect of blackouts this winter as emergency plans to import power generators have ...
Read More 50,000 housing units needed every year to meet demand – report
Close to 50,000 housing units would have to be built here every year for the coming decades in order to ...
Read More Consumer price inflation breached 2% in July – CSO
Consumer prices in July were 2.2% higher than they were in the same month last year, according to the Central ...
Read More Price of homes up over 95% from low point in 2013 – CSO
Residential property prices rose again in June, according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office. The price of ...
Read More Household net worth hits new high, savings increase
Irish household net worth reached a record high of €883bn in the first quarter of this year due to an ...
Read More Fixed rates account for bulk of new mortgage arrangements here
Lenders in the Irish market continued to charge among the highest interest rates on mortgages in June. According to figures ...
Read More Record number of daily contactless payments in June
2.4 million contactless payments were made every day in June of this year, the highest daily figure on record. New ...
Read More Weekly PUP numbers down again ahead of phased payment reduction next month
The number of people in receipt of the Pandemic Unemployment Payment this week stood at 157,712 – a drop of ...
Read More Record amount of corporation tax collected last year
The high proportion of tax revenue coming from corporation tax represents “a significant risk to the public finances,” according to ...
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