Ireland launches legal case against UK over Northern Ireland amnesty law
LONDON (Reuters) -The European Court Of Human Rights said on Friday that Ireland had launched a legal challenge against Britain over a new law that gives conditional amnesties to former soldiers and…
Ireland trims 2023 budget surplus, corporate tax forecasts
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland is set to collect 0.6% less tax than expected this year following a recent fall in corporate receipts and deliver a lower than forecast budget surplus that Tuesday’s…
Ireland to hike core government spending by 6.1% in 2024
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland intends to increase core public expenditure by 6.1% next year in an overall budget package of 6.4 billion euros ($6.98 billion), according to its Summer Economic Statement. Two…
Euro zone industry output falls sharply, with Ireland plunge
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Euro zone industrial production fell by far more than expected in March as output of capital goods plunged, although the sharp reduction appeared to be a result of figures…
Ireland could amass $156 billion wealth fund with windfall corporate tax
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland could amass a 142 billion euro ($156 billion) sovereign wealth fund by 2035 and cover much of its future age-related costs if it invests all its forecast windfall…
Irish PM seeks to restore Northern Ireland power-sharing within months
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar pledged on Sunday to intensify efforts with his British counterpart Rishi Sunak to restore power-sharing government in Northern Ireland and hopes to break the…
UK PM Sunak to meet U.S. President in Northern Ireland
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will meet Joe Biden in Northern Ireland next week when the U.S. president flies in to take part in events to mark the 25th…
Architects of Northern Ireland peace see hope beyond Brexit deadlock
By Padraic Halpin and Kate Holton DUBLIN/LONDON (Reuters) – A quarter of a century after unpalatable compromises ended decades of bloodshed in Northern Ireland, some of the architects of the Good Friday…
UK’s Sunak to meet EU chief in push to finalise Northern Ireland deal
By William James LONDON (Reuters) -British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak will meet European Union chief Ursula von der Leyen on Monday in an effort to finalise a new deal for Northern Ireland’s…
Ireland sees inflation averaging 4-5% this year
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Irish inflation is expected to average between 4% and 5% across 2023, lower than the 7.1% the finance ministry most recently forecast last September, Finance Minister Michael McGrath said.…
Ireland sees lower than forecast inflation in 2023
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland’s finance department said inflation is expected to be lower this year than the 7.1% rate it forecast last September, with a significant easing anticipated from the second quarter…
Blinken welcomes Northern Ireland talks progress after meeting UK’s Cleverly
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said after meeting his British counterpart on Tuesday that Washington welcomed apparent progress in talks between Britain and the European Union aimed at…
Ireland to extend business energy supports to newly opened businesses
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Irish businesses that have opened in the last year will be able to avail of an energy grant scheme that was initially limited to those that had been established…
Ireland hikes surplus forecast ahead of budget
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland on Saturday almost doubled its budget surplus forecast for 2022 to 0.9% of gross domestic product thanks to booming corporate tax revenues, giving it extra resources to help…
White House: Undermining Northern Ireland agreement will not help U.S.-UK trade talks
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said on Wednesday any efforts to undermine the Northern Ireland agreement would not create a conducive environment for trade talks between the United States…
Teacher Sent To Jail After Refusing To Use ‘Gender-Neutral’ Pronouns At Ireland School
Teacher Sent To Jail After Refusing To Use ‘Gender-Neutral’ Pronouns At Ireland School Laurel Duggan on September 6, 2022 Enoch Burke, a school teacher in Ireland, was banned from his school over…
Ireland Poised To Join The Growing List Of Countries Putting ‘The Climate’ Over Food Security
Ireland Poised To Join The Growing List Of Countries Putting ‘The Climate’ Over Food Security Micaela Burrow on July 26, 2022 Ireland may agree to pursue carbon emissions reduction target of up…
UK’s Northern Ireland trade law clears parliament’s lower house
LONDON – Legislation allowing Britain to scrap some of the rules on post-Brexit trade with Northern Ireland cleared the final stage of its passage through parliament’s lower House of Commons on Wednesday…
Ireland should set aside part of 2022 budget surplus – deputy PM
DUBLIN – Ireland should set aside some of the budget surplus it expects to post this year to fund future pensions or to start refilling its currently empty contingency reserve fund, Deputy…
Ireland calls on UK to cool Brexit tensions over Northern Ireland
LONDON – Ireland’s foreign minister Simon Coveney urged British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Sunday not to introduce new post-Brexit trade laws in the coming the days that he said could undermine…
Global tax overhaul will not slow Google’s investment in Ireland, CEO says
DUBLIN – A global tax deal will make “no difference” to Alphabet Google’s operations in Ireland as the company remains committed to investing and adding staff to its European hub there, Chief…
Bank of Ireland posts highest profit in more than a decade
DUBLIN – Bank of Ireland on Monday posted its biggest annual profit since the global financial crisis more than a decade ago and said it plans to return of 104 million euros…
Ireland nears Facebook decision key to EU-U.S. data transfers
DUBLIN – Ireland’s data watchdog expects to consult fellow EU regulators in April on its investigation into Facebook’s data transfers, moving closer to a decision that could hammer transatlantic business if it…
‘Bloody Sunday’ still scars Northern Ireland 50 years on
By Clodagh Kilcoyne LONDONDERRY – Five decades after British soldiers killed 13 unarmed Catholic civil rights marchers on one of the defining days of the Northern Ireland conflict, relatives are still searching…
AP: Global climate protests ahead of Madrid meeting
Protesters in cities across the world staged rallies Friday demanding leaders take tougher action against climate change, days before the latest global conference which will take place in Madrid. (Nov. 29) Subscribe…
AP: Police declare London Bridge incident ‘terrorist’
A man wearing a fake explosive vest stabbed several people in what police in London are treating as a terrorist attack. Officials say police shot and killled the suspect on London Bridge.…
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