Residential Property Price Index for April revealed the smallest annual...
The CSO’s Residential Property Price Index for April revealed the smallest annual decline since prices (as measured by the RPPI) turned negative in February 2008. However, not for the first time the...
View ArticleGrafton launches retail bond issue
Grafton Group plc (“Grafton”), the builders merchanting and DIY Group with operations in the UK, Ireland and Belgium, has launched a 5.5% Sterling Retail Bonds due 2020 (“the Bonds”), which will be...
View ArticleNot liable for €260m loan claims developer
Development loans of €260m were advanced to a company on securities including a guarantee of one of its directors limited to €8m, the commercial court was told yesterday. David Kennedy, with an address...
View ArticleLough Erne Resort attracts bids after G8 summit
There are more than five prospective buyers in the running to purchase the Lough Erne Resort in Fermanagh, which hosted the G8 summit earlier this month. The international gathering of world leaders at...
View Article‘Targeted rate cuts urgently needed for businesses’ – Chambers Ireland
Chambers Ireland is to present its ten point plan for micro, small and medium-sized enterprises to the Oireachtas Committee on Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation today. Speaking to TheJournal.ie, the...
View ArticleGuidelines for Planning Authorities on preparation of local area plans published
Mr Phil Hogan T.D., Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government and Ms Jan O’Sullivan T.D., Minister for Housing and Planning, today (25 June 2013) announced the publication of the...
View ArticleDrogheda social housing to be delivered through ‘Build to Lease’
Construction work is to begin shortly on 25 new homes as Drogheda Borough Council becomes the first local authority in the country to use the Department of the Environment, Community & Local...
View ArticleFormer advisor to Brian Lenihan says Trackers should be taxed
A one-time advisor to the former minister of finance Brian Lenihan has proposed imposing a tax on tracker mortgages. Dr Alan Ahearne of the National University of Galway also proposed the removal of...
View ArticlePlanning permission approvals were up 24.7pc in Q1 – CSO
Planning permission approvals were up 24.7pc in the first quarter of 2013, new figures from the CSO showed today. The year-on-year increase was the biggest since 2011 although the figures are coming...
View ArticleGolden Discs flagship store for Cork City
Golden Discs will open its new store on Patrick Street this Friday, creating 18 jobs and taking over the location previously occupied by HMV. The flagship premises in the 5,000-square foot former...
View Article90 new jobs for Dublin
Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD, today announced the creation of 90 new jobs for Dublin in four fast-growing companies. The projects are supported by the Department of...
View ArticleBradshaw ‘regrets’ Glass Bottle deal
Former Dublin Docklands Development Authority chairman Lar Bradshaw has said that the taxpayer did not lose any money in the controversial purchase of the Irish Glass Bottle site in Ringsend seven...
View ArticleGreen REIT to raise over €200m to purchase Irish commercial property
Green REIT (real estate investment trust) is looking to raise over €200m from Irish and British investors with the aim of putting together “a portfolio of freehold and long leasehold properties...
View ArticleKentz – Pleased with progress during the first half of 2013
Irish-founded international engineering services group, Kentz has said that its cash position has remained strong into 2013 and provides “considerable financial flexibility” to support the group’s...
View Article4 Star Cork City hotel for €1.4m
On the instruction of Kieran Wallace, Receiver, KPMG, Savills Hotels and Leisure have been appointed to sell The Ambassador Hotel, Military Hill, Cork. KPMG were appointed Receivers in May 2012 with...
View ArticleNew Osberstown Treatment Plant Contract to go to Tender
Mr. Phil Hogan T.D., Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, has announced that he has given approval to Kildare County Council to seek tenders for the upgrade and expansion of...
View ArticleProperty tax has contributed to Ireland’s return to recession – Varadkar
Minister Leo Varadkar has said that the property tax has played a part in Ireland’s return to recession which was confirmed in poor economic growth figures released yesterday. Speaking to Morning...
View Article‘I’ve apologised to my children’ – Quinn
Seán Quinn has said he has repeatedly apologised to his wife and children for the “fundamental mistake” of investing in Anglo Irish Bank – a decision that ultimately led to his bankruptcy. The bankrupt...
View Article“nothing but contempt” for Anglo tapes – Merkel
German chancellor Angela Merkel has described the leaked Anglo Irish Bank phone conversation recordings as “damaging democracy, the social market economy and everything we strive for”. Answering...
View ArticleTaoiseach and Tánaiste broker political agreement on EU €960 billion budget
In Brussels yesterday, the Taoiseach and the Tánaiste reached a political agreement with the European Parliament and the European Commission on the EU budget for the next seven years. They will now...
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