Peter Flanagan
Assistant Business Editor at Irish Times
Assistant Business Editor at The Irish Times. All opinions are my own, likes are bookmarks.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Peter Flanagan
The Irish economy faces a big economic hit with up to 25,000fewer jobs created if the European Union EU fails to secure a trade deal with the US to limit the impact of tariffs, the Department of Finance has warned.As Eoin Burke-Kennedy reports, the department’s annual progress report, as it is called, underlinesthe risks to Ireland. Eoin also explains what exactly is at stake for Ireland’s economy thanks to the tariff uncertainty.
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1 week ago |
thejournal.ie | Peter Flanagan
IRELAND ISN’T FULL. There are towns across the country that still haven’t recovered from the famine. There were 8.2 million of us living on the island in 1841 – so many of us, in fact, that the British government didn’t think it would be too big a deal if a few million starved to death. Our demographics continued to collapse in the years that followed as people moved to places like America, Britain and Australia.
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1 week ago |
irishtimes.com | Peter Flanagan
Microsoft‘s Irish subsidiaries paid dividendsworth $41 billion (€36.3 billion) to its US parent across its 2024 financial year and the first months of 2025, as the tech giant’s Irish business continued to grow. The payments are likely to be noticed in Washington, given the Trump administration’s focus on getting American firms to shift business back to the US. Ciara O’Brien has the details.
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2 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Peter Flanagan
US President Donald Trump’s tariffs pose a “major downside risk” to Ireland’s economy, Central Bank governor Gabriel Makhlouf has warned, particularly if tariffs and changes to US tax policy discourage American companies from investing here.
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2 weeks ago |
irishtimes.com | Peter Flanagan
AIB is to cut the interest rate on many of its fixed rate mortgages by as much as 0.75 per cent. The lender will cut rates on its non-green fixed rate mortgages from May 13th the bank said in a statement. “AIB’s two-year fixed rate for non-Green mortgages will reduce by 0.75 per cent and all other non-Green fixed rate mortgages will reduce by 0.50 per cent, excluding the high value four year fixed rate,”it said.
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