Unemployment falls sharply last month but threat of reclosure looms
The unemployment rate fell to 16.7pc last month as thousands of employees returned to work. New official figures show that ...
Read More Pandemic saw anxious Irish savers cut their pension contributions
More than one fifth of Irish pension savers have reduced contributions to their scheme during the Covid-19 outbreak. Irish pension ...
Read More ‘Particular concern’ for SMEs as winter comes – Varadkar
Minister for Enterprise, Trade and Employment, Leo Varadkar, has said there is “particular concern” for survival rates among small and ...
Read More Small firms ‘kept waiting for weeks’ for restart grants
Tánaiste Leo Varadkar will launch the Government’s plans for a beefed-up Covid-19 Restart Grant for small businesses today – a ...
Read More Bank of Ireland to refund customers after fraudulent ‘smishing’ campaign hit accounts
Bank of Ireland will reimburse customers hit by a cyber fraud that dropped fake texts into genuine interactions between the ...
Read More What will the office market look like after the great remote working experiment?
When lockdown was imposed and workers were forced to desert office buildings en masse, it was a novelty. Hundreds of ...
Read More Irish tourism must also help itself to survive the pandemic
There is no need to rake over old ground. We already know the tourism and hospitality sectors have been hit ...
Read More More small firm owners expect to get pay rise as mood improves
ONE in ten small business owners now plans to give themselves a pay raise this year, while nearly a third ...
Read More Coronavirus punches €8.3bn hole in public finances
The coronavirus crisis has punched an €8.3 billion hole in the public finances, according to the latest exchequer returns. The ...
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