Smithville Irish Festival to Celebrate Irish Culture and Music
SMITHVILLE, NJ – The annual Smithville Irish Festival returns on October 12 and 13, 2024, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., offering a vibrant celebration of Irish culture at Historic Smithville. Sponsored…
Irish consumer sentiment falls slightly in March -survey
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Irish consumer sentiment in March fell month-on-month for the first time since November, a survey showed on Friday, as continuing cost-of living pressures and increased uncertainty in the global…
Scholarship Fund for Inner-City Children Raises $91K at Inaugural Irish American Breakfast
by Sean Quinn, Newark, N.J. – The Scholarship Fund for Inner-City Children (SFIC) raised $91,000 — which is $16,000 more than its target goal — to fund partial tuition assistance scholarships for…
Biden to host Irish PM Varadkar, affirm peace accords, White House says
By Kanishka Singh and Trevor Hunnicutt WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Joe Biden will host Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar on Friday for a meeting where they will express support for the 1998…
Oscar success puts ‘endangered’ Irish language centre stage
By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) – Thousands of miles from the glitz of Sunday’s Oscars, the first Irish language film to earn a nomination is sparking renewed interest in a native tongue…
Irish banks see commercial real estate revaluations as manageable
By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland’s two dominant banks, AIB Group and Bank of Ireland, expect commercial real estate values to fall this year but said this week conservative underwriting in…
Irish finance minister sees less severe economic slowdown
DUBLIN (Reuters) – An expected economic slowdown may not be as severe as feared, Ireland’s finance minister said on Friday after data showed consumer spending continued to grow even as the country’s…
Irish tax revenues up 13% year-on-year at end-February
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland collected 13% more tax in the first two months of the year than the same period in 2022, data from the finance department showed on Thursday, as income…
Irish inflation ticks back up to 8% in February – flash estimate
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Annual Irish inflation ticked back up to 8% in February from 7.5% a month earlier, according to a flash estimate of the EU’s Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP),…
Irish central bank chief calls for ban on crypto advertising
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland’s central bank governor urged lawmakers on Wednesday to ban the advertising of crypto assets targetted at young adults, likening crypto not linked to any underlying assets to a…
Irish inflation falls month-on-month for first time in almost a year
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Irish inflation fell on a month-on-month basis for the first time in almost a year in December, bringing the annual rate to 8.2% from 8.9% a month earlier, Central…
Irish services sector growth picks back up in December
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Expansion in the Irish services sector picked up in December following four straight months of slowing growth to push overall activity in the private sector back into positive territory,…
Irish Central Bank fines subsidiary of France’s AXA over breaches
DUBLIN (Reuters) – The Irish Central Bank has fined a subsidiary of French insurer AXA 3.6 million euros ($3.8 million) for failures in corporate governance and risk management and the handling of…
Irish consumer sentiment dips slightly on tech job losses
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Irish consumer sentiment dipped slightly in November as people grew concerned about job losses in the country’s tech sector, a survey showed on Monday. The Credit Union Consumer Sentiment…
Irish debt agency says no big complaints on liquidity in bonds
By Dhara Ranasinghe BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Debt agency officials are conscious that the end of central bank largesse has unleashed volatility in fixed-income markets, but bonds are becoming more attractive again, a…
Irish consumer sentiment improved slightly in October
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Irish consumer sentiment improved slightly in October as consumers took some comfort from government measures introduced in its annual budget to support household spending, a survey showed on Thursday.…
Novartis to cut its Irish workforce by up to 25%
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Novartis said on Thursday that it would cut up to 400 jobs in Ireland, or about a quarter of its workforce there, as part of a previously announced restructuring…
Irish services sector growth slows slightly in Sept –PMI
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland’s services sector continued to expand in September, unlike much of Europe, although the pace of growth slowed slightly due to growing worries about the impact of inflation, a…
Irish central bank sees lower economic growth, higher inflation next year
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland’s central bank pushed up its 2023 inflation projections and revised down its forecast for economic growth for the third quarter in row, but expects the drag on disposable…
Irish coalition to discuss Eurogroup chief conundrum, deputy prime minister says
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland’s deputy prime minister said on Friday that coalition leaders will shortly discuss how Dublin might remain as chair of the influential Eurogroup of euro zone finance ministers ahead…
Irish services sector growth slips to 17-month low in August – PMI
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Growth in Ireland’s services sector slowed to a 17-month low in August but remained stronger than in several major trading partners, a survey showed on Monday. The AIB S&P…
Former CFO of Claddagh Irish Pubs Parent Company Charged with Defrauding States Out of More Than $1 Million in Sales Tax Revenue
CLEVELAND – First Assistant U.S. Attorney Michelle M. Baeppler announced that the former Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of CDG Acquisition, LLC (CDG), a company registered in the State of Ohio, which owned…
Foreign business travel missing ingredient for Irish hotel recovery – Dalata
By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN (Reuters) – Executives at Ireland’s large hub of multinational companies are still only going on a small fraction of the foreign business trips they made before the COVID-19…
Irish budget surplus may reach 2% of national income in 2022-watchdog
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland’s budget surplus could reach 2% of gross national income this year, the country’s fiscal watchdog said on Wednesday, significantly ahead of the 0.5% the finance ministry forecast when…
Irish consumer sentiment hovers at 22-month low in August
DUBLIN (Reuters) – Irish consumer sentiment slipped marginally to hover at a 22-month low in August as respondents said they expected to further cut back on major purchases in the coming months,…
Irish house prices return to 2007 peak for first time
By Padraic Halpin DUBLIN – Irish house prices returned in June to levels not seen since the credit-fuelLed peak of 2007, after data on Friday showed further rapid rises that experts have…
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