Peter Flanagan

First-time buyer couples with two incomes availing of the Government Help to Buy scheme still faces still struggle to afford a hole in Dublin or surrounding counties, the Society of Chartered Surveyors Ireland has said. Eoin Burke-Kennedy has the details ... See more

The Government will formally dissolve the National Asset Management Agency on Saturday, ending the 17-year run of a unit set up to handle toxic loans at the height of the financial crisis. The Department of Finance laid the statutory instrument formalisin... See more

The next two sets of inflation data for the euro zone will be “meaningful” for the European Central Bank (EB) in deciding whether to increase interest rates in December, Central Bank governor Gabriel Makhlouf has warned. The European Central Bank (ECB) ke... See more

The Summer Economic Statement is a key marker on the way to October’s budget, and this time it shows Government spending on day-to-day services and new infrastructure will grow by €7 billion next year to €125.5 billion. Pat Leahy reports on the SES, while... See more

A correction in the US stock market would mean domestic economic activity contracting by as much as 3.75 per cent compared to current forecasts, the Department of Finance has said, amid growing fears of an artificial intelligence-fuelled bubble in equity ... See more