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The Cabinet meets this morning with Social Protection Minister Heather Humphreys expected to bring a memo proposing the formal establishment of a Commission on Pensions. Under the Coalition’s programme for government, the pension age will be maintained at 66 pending the completion of the Commission’s work – a position confirmed in last month’s Budget speech […]

The Irish SME Association (ISME) has written to all TDs in Ireland to express its grave concern at the latest national “lockdown” due to Covid-19.  ISME told the TDs that it believes there are more effective, evidence-based and successful ways to respond to Covid-19, other than an arbitrary national lockdown.  The association called on TDs […]

The Irish SME Association (ISME) has written to all TDs in Ireland to express its grave concern at the latest national “lockdown” due to Covid-19.  ISME told the TDs that it believes there are more effective, evidence-based and successful ways to respond to Covid-19, other than an arbitrary national lockdown.  The association called on TDs […]

Two in five people stay they began shopping online for the first time at the start of the pandemic. It comes as an initial lockdown in Ireland at the end of March forced all non-essential retailers to temporarily pull down their shutters. Over half of consumers are increasingly shopping online due to Covid-19, according to […]

The private rental market is among the few areas of the commercial property sector to so far escape being negatively impacted by the threat of a hard Brexit and Covid-19. This is due, in part, to a continued shortage of supply. There has been an escalation in interest from both domestic and international investors in […]

Europe’s economic recovery is being cut short as governments implement new restrictions to fight the coronavirus that risk driving the region toward another recession. The four biggest economies are going into various forms of lockdown, overshadowing data that showed a record surge in third-quarter output. A new slump is on the cards, governments are pumping […]