FOR the Irish property market, it's a case of out of the Brexit frying pan and into the Covid-19 fire, albeit with the briefest two months respite.
A 59ac parcel of grazing ground at Kilkennybeg, Killenaule, Co Tipperary, sold recently under the direction of Pat Quirke of PF Quirke, making €550,000 or over €9,000/ac.
There was expected to be keen interest in a big clearout auction of tractors and machinery from Bord na Móna's Derrygreenagh site in Offaly over the weekend, but like so many other public events, the auction has understandably fallen foul of the Covid 19-crisis.
The monthly employment report is both disrespected for being a lagging economic indicator and revered for measuring the most important economic signal. In the week ahead, the March jobs report … Click to Continue »
Irish food producers are facing a major crisis with the closure of lucrative markets worth hundreds of millions to the sector, Bord Bia has warned.
As the public health measures intensify it is natural to focus on the figures for confirmed cases, hospital admissions and, tragically, fatalities. But the epidemic will end, the measures will be relaxed and the steep collapse in economic activity will reverse. With luck, this could happen in months but none of the experts can rule...
The government last night published list of "essential" workers after a day of confusion over who is exempt from unprecedented restrictions on movement due to the coronavirus crisis.
