Surge in tax receipts ‘likely to continue’
The Revenue Commissioners office has told the government that this year’s surge in corporate tax receipts is sustainable and can...
View ArticleNama official’s ‘vague’ answers anger MLAs
A senior civil servant has faced fierce criticism over “vague and unhelpful” answers to a Stormont committee investigating Northern Ireland’s biggest...
View ArticleReform taxes or lose growth, Ireland told
Ireland has been warned that its productivity is in danger of stagnating unless it learns to “tune its tax system”....
View ArticleApple doubles down on Ireland with new jobs
Apple will create 1,000 new jobs at its European headquarters in Cork as the technology company expands its Irish operations....
View ArticleShane Long adds to Martin O’Neill’s mounting injury woes
Shane Long, Shay Given and Keiren Westwood are out. John O’Shea and Rob Elliot have yet to even come in...
View ArticleQuinn Insurance faces Central Bank probe
The Central Bank has launched an inquiry into Quinn Insurance to decide what sanctions, if any, should be imposed on...
View ArticleOne-trick Economy
News that Apple, the multinational technology giant, will create 1,000 jobs in Cork is obviously good for the economy. A...
View ArticleMobile tech company Swrves into fast lane
Swrve, the Irish technology company, is set to expand its Dublin operations after completing a $30 million (€27.9 million) funding...
View ArticleOyonnax task scares me, admits Les Kiss
It’s not just the synthetic pitch in the ‘Plastics Vallée’ of Oyonnax that scares Les Kiss, the Ulster director of...
View ArticleElder statesman Robbie Keane accepts diminishing Ireland role
It has been an impressive reversal of roles for Robbie Keane. Once the egotistical individual on whom the team relied...
View ArticleRob Heffernan can walk tall as he waits for the Olympic medal he deserves
Rob Heffernan sprinted up The Mall in the midday heat of an August Saturday. Him and The Russian. The medals...
View ArticleDublin finally set to play outside Croke Park
Dublin will play their first football Championship game outside of Croke Park in a decade next summer after being handed...
View ArticleFrustrated feminists bring the house down at Abbey Theatre
It’s probably been a while since Fiach Mac Conghail, director of the Abbey, saw a production sell out in ten...
View ArticleArtists in messy battle for portrait prize
If Catherine Barron is to win this year’s Hennessy Portrait Prize she will need to beat Ruby Walsh, the jockey....
View ArticleFlights are grounded as Abigail storms in
Flights were cancelled at Dublin airport yesterday as Ireland was hit by Storm Abigail. Met Eireann issued an orange wind...
View ArticleBloody Sunday soldiers take on PSNI inquiry
A British High Court judge is considering whether seven former paratroopers facing questioning over the 1972 Bloody Sunday shootings are entitled...
View ArticleLocals halt building of disputed sea wall
The building of a controversial stretch of wall on the Clontarf seafront has come to a temporary halt pending consultation...
View ArticleI’ll find jobs for 221,000 people, vows Kenny
The government’s new strategy to end the boom-bust cycle was dismissed as spin by the opposition shortly after its launch...
View ArticleIrish banking crisis ‘home-made’, says ECB chief
Mario Draghi has said that Ireland’s financial crisis was “entirely home-made” due to bad policy. The European Central Bank president...
View ArticlePat Carey resigns amid ‘unfounded’ abuse claims
Pat Carey has resigned from his public and political roles, although he said that he did not know whether allegations...
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