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    • Friday, 20 October, 2023
      SUV sales in Ireland rise as richer drivers demand roomier cars

      Two out of three new passenger vehicles now fall into the category — among the highest proportion in the EU

      Montage of a Mercedes-Benz AG G-Class, a Tucson SUV and a chart
    • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
      Eurozone economy
      Ireland and Portugal to invest budget surpluses in new sovereign funds

      Dublin plans for future with corporation tax windfall while Lisbon benefits from government fiscal discipline

      Office and apartment buildings on the Grand Canal in Dublin
    • Tuesday, 10 October, 2023
      European banks
      Ireland become latest EU country to raise bank levy

      Jump from target of €87mn to €200mn follows moves by Italy and Netherlands to tax sector more heavily

      Ireland’s finance minister Michael McGrath
    • Monday, 2 October, 2023
      The Big Read
      How will Ireland put its newfound wealth to work?

      Bumper corporation tax receipts have filled the country’s coffers. But the government has plenty of problems to solve

      Dublin’s skyline superimposed on a background of bar chart lines
    • Friday, 8 September, 2023
      Ireland
      Ireland’s dairy farmers in crisis over EU nitrogen cap

      Producers face having to cull cows or find more land after government says bloc’s decision will not be overturned

      A farmer rounds up cows in Aherla, County Cork, Ireland
    • Friday, 1 September, 2023
      Irish manufacturers buck European trend with rise in activity

      Export orders jump and companies hire workers at fastest pace since February while broader regional economy remains weak

      Workers assemble wiring into the cab of a forklift truck on the production line at the Combilift factory in Monaghan, Ireland
    • Wednesday, 23 August, 2023
      Global InsightMartin Arnold
      Ireland’s wild data is leaving economists stumped

      Eurozone statistics have been seriously distorted by US tech and pharma groups that found a home in Dublin

      Montage of a Dublin street, waterway and a chart
    • Friday, 11 August, 2023
      Ireland
      Irish farmers pressured to cull up to 200,000 cows to meet climate goals

      Dairy farming produces much of Ireland’s emissions, but herd-owners say large-scale culling is not the answer

      A man in a field with cows
    • Friday, 2 June, 2023
      Economists cast doubt over Ireland’s sharp contraction

      Official data suggests downturn but other figures point to last year’s boom continuing

      Ireland’s Minister for Finance Michael McGrath and Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform Paschal Donohoe
    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      News in-depthIreland
      Ireland’s housing crisis leaves refugees and homeless in desperate plight

      Evictions of tenants resume and numbers of asylum seekers rise while country is short of 250,000 homes

      Three men walk past a mural that reads ‘Glory to Ukraine’
    • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
      Britain after Brexit
      Freedoms versus safeguards — the Northern Ireland deal viewed from Brussels Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: why the news has not been universally welcomed in Wales

      Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak and EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen
    • Sunday, 19 February, 2023
      Irish central banker defends runaway economic growth as ‘real’

      Ireland’s GDP increase single-handedly prevented the eurozone economy from stagnating last quarter

      A cyclist passes by Google’s European headquarters in Dublin, Ireland
    • Wednesday, 15 February, 2023
      Ireland scraps scheme offering residency in exchange for investment

      Programme that netted Dublin €1.25bn in 10 years was especially popular with wealthy Chinese

      Temple Bar in central Dublin
    • Sunday, 8 January, 2023
      News in-depth
      Ireland’s immigrant investor programme draws in wealthy Chinese

      Rich individuals worried about Beijing’s economic prospects flock to Dublin’s investment-for-residency scheme

      Panoramic view of Dublin
    • Wednesday, 23 November, 2022
      OutlookJude Webber
      Ireland’s millionaire homeowners belie a stark inequality gulf

      Housing supply shortages, the cost of living crisis and the prospect of tech lay-offs are squeezing the next generation

      Rents in Dublin were up by more than 14 per cent in the year to September, as rising housing costs across Ireland are leading young people to despair of ever being able to rent or buy
    • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
      News in-depth
      Tech job cuts a wake-up call to Ireland’s economy

      Mass sackings are a blow to staff, but come amid rising concerns the country has grown too reliant on the industry

      Pedestrians in Dublin’s Docklands area
    • Thursday, 29 September, 2022
      Bank of Ireland
      Bank of Ireland fined €100.5mn over tracker mortgage scandal

      Lender refused access to cheaper products ‘with little to no regard for the impacts on its customers’

      A picture of a Bank of Ireland branch
    • Friday, 23 September, 2022
      Bank of Ireland
      Irish government exits Bank of Ireland 13 years after rescue

      Dublin invested €4.7bn in lender during crisis that crashed the economy

      People using ATMs outside a Bank of Ireland branch in Dublin
    • Tuesday, 16 August, 2022
      News in-depthEuropean banks
      Ireland’s banks target ‘once in a generation’ growth opportunity

      Three Irish lenders in prime position as competitors exit market and interest rates rise

      People queuing outside a Bank of Ireland branch in Clifden
    • Monday, 8 August, 2022
      Tech sector tax windfall shores up Ireland’s economy against recession

      Pandemic-enhanced revenues from multinationals give Dublin more scope to mitigate the cost of living crisis

      Pedestrians at the O’Connell Bridge in Dublin
    • Thursday, 28 July, 2022
      Hard-fought deal reached on cutting Irish farms’ greenhouse emissions

      Target of 25% is ‘massive, massive ask’, says key agriculture sector, though climate campaigners fear it is not enough

      Friesian dairy cows grazing in Ireland
    • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
      AIB Group PLC
      Ireland’s AIB fined record €96.7mn over tracker mortgage scandal

      Country’s second-biggest lender failed to give customers access to cheap interest rates

      An AIB logo
    • Wednesday, 15 June, 2022
      News in-depthNorthern Ireland
      Brexit bill spells uncertainty for Northern Irish dairy farmers

      Boris Johnson’s ‘dual regulatory framework’ threatens future of the biggest all-Ireland integrated industry

      Philip Haffey, a fourth-generation dairy farmer from County Armagh, Northern Island, stands with his cows
    • Tuesday, 21 December, 2021
      AIB Group PLC
      Ireland to start selling part of its 71% stake in AIB

      Country paves way for its biggest bank to exit majority state ownership

      The AIB logo
    • Sunday, 12 December, 2021
      Dublin’s Lo-Lo port boom reveals shift in Ireland’s trade after Brexit

      More freight is bypassing the UK and heading straight for the EU

      Dublin Port Chief Executive Officer, Eamon O‘Reilly
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