Air traffic between Ireland and the UK is on course to break last year’s record of 12.8m passengers, with Irish people seeking good value in the UK due to the stronger euro.
Dubli...
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US: Retail sales in the US dropped in May by their largest amount for 16 months.
China: GDP grew 6.9% in Q2 YoY, defying expectations from economists. The Government target for the year...
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88 Irish nurses took up a job offer in the HSE’s ‘Bring Them Home’ campaign which cost €250,000 to run. The take-up was deemed to be low and many nursing vacancies are s...
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Irish Trade figures from the Central Statistics Office:
The monthly trade surplus reached €5bn for the first time on record. Trade surplus is the value of exports over the value of im...
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Cavan based Lakeland Dairies reported an operating profit of €7.2m for 2016, half of what it was in 2015 when they achieved a healthier €15.5m. The company is believed to be looking ...
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UK: Theresa May has called a General Election for June 8 2017. According to the current Prime Minister, a bigger parliamentary majority is needed in order to strengthen her hand for negotiatio...
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The IMF has revised upwards its forecast for world growth in 2017 to 3.5% vs 3.4% in January. 2018’s outlook remains unchanged at 3.6%.
The IMF has given its US growth outlo...
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2016 saw 2,076 homes built despite the estimate from the Government that it was close to 15,000. Of this, just 848 were estate houses and apartments. The Government had reported this fig...
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Official figures from the Central Statistics Office show 33m people passed through Irish airports in 2016. Dublin Airport accounted for 84.6% of passengers which saw 204,563 flights. Cor...
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Medtronic in Tullamore will now be owned by Cardinal Health and they will be the 5th operators of the plant since it opened in 1982 (previous owners have been Sherwood Medical, Tyco, Covidien and Me...
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