Brendan Keenan: Asking if there is a property bubble is the wrong question
To paraphrase Zhou Enlai, it may be too early to say. But the Irish economic question is exhibiting the same symptoms. Just as we seemed to successfully negotiate the Crash, the question changed.
Or rather, an old question re-appeared. Is the economy, and particular the property market, in danger of overheating? Should the government be taking steps to cool it – even, merciful hour, increasing stamp duty on buy-to-let properties …
Thousands in line for Standard Life payout
The payment is worth close to €1,000 each for an estimated 60,000 Irish shareholders.
These people ended up with shares in the Edinburgh-headquartered company when it de-mutualised, and floated on the London Stock Market in 2006.
Now the insurer has sold its Canadian division, and plans to pay €2.18bn of the proceeds of the sale back to the shareholders.
A spokesman for the company said the windfall would work out …
Kenny praises 'patriotism' as Guaranteed Irish hits 30
Speaking at a celebratory lunch in Dublin yesterday, Mr Kenny said: “I’m sure there are many here who will remember as clearly as I do when this concept started out some years ago.
“It made us sit up and take notice way back then, its message was about an innate sense of quality, of faith, of confidence and indeed of trust, the sense that by watching the iconic Guaranteed Irish …
Pressure on employers as job vacancies rise in August
Compared to July, 4pc more jobs were available in August.
In some sectors firms are struggling to fill jobs because of the gap between salaries on offer and the pay expectations of some in-demand specialists – that gap is especially true in engineering. However, the numbers of professionals seeking jobs has also increased since August 2013, by 9pc to 8,930.
That’s according to the latest Monthly Employment Monitor published by …
IBEC: 'Slash taxes to lure emigrants home to work'
Its 2014 Consumer Monitor, while portraying an economy firmly in recovery mode, said the flood of 20 to 35-year-olds risks bringing progress to a grinding halt.
And the Government can afford income tax cuts of €300m in the upcoming budget.
This age group is the only one in which emigration and joblessness is still rising.
The Government must prioritise cutting income taxes to entice these people back to Ireland, the …