2+ day, 18+ hour ago   (291+ words) ANOTHER SCRAPPAGE SCHEME offering €5,000 for drivers to trade in their old cars for electric vehicles could be rolled out again next year. The pilot scheme offered a €5,000 scrappage grant to drivers to trade in their vehicle if it was over…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago   (961+ words) A MEASURE GETTING talked up by senior ministers in recent days ahead of next month’s government budget has been whether Ireland should scrap the 1% stamp duty on homes for first-time buyers. There is disagreement on the proposal among the government…...

2+ day, 2+ hour ago   (438+ words) LAST UPDATE | 12 Sep TÁNAISTE SIMON HARRIS has said potential new income tax cuts in the upcoming budget will make a real difference to families across the country. But just how much money will people actually get back in their pockets?...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago   (718+ words) AN ACRE OF carrots pays the exact same in EU subsidies as an acre of cows, yet I find myself reading numerous analyses of our food system which would lead you to believe otherwise. So how are livestock farms not…...

3+ day, 21+ hour ago   (957+ words) TAOISEACH MICHEÁL MARTIN recently did not rule out cutting excise on alcohol as part of next month’s budget. Minister for Enterprise Peter Burke is reported to be in support of an excise cut, as a measure to help rural pubs....

4+ day, 17+ hour ago   (478+ words) THE FIRM BEHIND Ireland’s only constructed offshore wind farm is to lodge plans in the coming days with An Coimisiún Pleanála (ACP) to dismantle and decommission the entire project. In the planning application direct to ACP, Arklow Energy Ltd is…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (735+ words) THE TAOISEACH’S COMMENTS on fuel prices bring an important choice into focus. Micheál Martin has acknowledged that the elevated petrol and diesel prices motorists are now experiencing may represent a “new normal”. He has also indicated that Government will consider…...

6+ day, 20+ hour ago   (521+ words) LAST UPDATE | 6 hrs ago A DEAL TO give data centre operators a reduced price for gas supply would be “deeply unfair” to households and small businesses, according to Sinn Féin MEP Lynn Boylan. The Commission for Regulation of Utilities (CRU)…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1238+ words) WITH ALMOST EXACTLY a month to go until Budget 2027, plenty of kites have already been flown by government ministers. From reduced childcare fees, a possible excise cut on alcohol and disagreement over what to do with the carbon tax, there…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1394+ words) YOU’LL HAVE SEEN it outside your own local school. A line of cars idling bumper to bumper, sometimes within sight of a bus stop that runs a service twice an hour. It’s not that the bus doesn’t exist. It’s that…...