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Customers rushing back into shops as the lockdown eased in June lifted the value of retail sales back to pre-Covid 19 levels. Retail sales rose by a record 38.4pc in ...

One of the challenges we face in growing our economy is the limited size of our domestic market. Ireland’s entry into the then EEC in 1973, and subsequent adoption of ...

HOUSING Minister Darragh O’Brien has signalled that couples who have a gross combined income of more than €75,000 will be eligible for a new affordable homes scheme. He also told ...

HOUSEHOLD savings have hit their highest level since the last financial crisis. People spent less in the first three months of the year which meant that they put more money ...

Consumer sentiment continues to lag behind business confidence, fresh data from Bank of Ireland suggests. Bank of Ireland’s regular ‘Economic Pulse’ combines business and consumer elements to track sentiment in ...

HUGE changes to the working lives of millions of people as a result of the Covid-19 crisis show how a more innovative approach to work could benefit industry, according to ...

Online retail giant Amazon is to create 1,000 permanent jobs in Ireland over the next two years. This will bring the company’s total workforce here to 5,000 people. The positions ...

The publication of the Central Statistics Office’s estimates of last year’s economic growth is normally newsworthy. But when figures appeared indicating that our gross domestic product had grown by about ...

Euro zone business activity grew in July for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic hit, as more parts of the economy that were locked down to curtail its spread ...