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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Home care sector facing ‘urgent’ recruitment shortage

A group representing the home care sector has said it is facing a recruitment crisis and has called on the ...
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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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Scarce housing supply highlighted as average rents rise

Average rents for residential properties rose by 5.6% nationally between April and June, according to the latest quarterly rental report ...
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Covid adjusted jobless rate falls to pandemic-low of 13.5%

The monthly unemployment rate in July was 6.5%, according to the latest figures from the Central Statistics Office. When those ...
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