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October 2024

budget 2025

Check your pay: Find out how Budget 2025 will affect what you take home using our calculator

1 Oct

52.5k

budget 2025

Cigarettes to jump by €1 to €18.05 from midnight with a tax on vapes expected next year

1 Oct

20.7k

Tax and the Budget

The income tax cuts and USC changes announced in Budget 2025

1 Oct

14.6k

companion pass

Over 70s to be allowed bring loved one or friend on public transport for free

1 Oct

208k

The Morning Lead

It's Budget Day 2025 - Here's a look at how things will play out

Two double child benefit payments, a cut to USC, fuel payments and a €1,000 rent tax credit are all expected in today’s announcement.

1 Oct

22.6k

September

September 2024

Mario Draghi

EU countries must 'sacrifice' their relationships and reliances on multinationals - ex-Italy PM

30 Sep

31.3k

€2 billion package

Budget 2025: €420 'baby boost' for new parents among one-off payments in cost of living package

Some once-off payments will likely be issued before Christmas.

Updated 30 Sep

99.6k

199

News Fix

Here's What Happened Today: Monday

30 Sep

5.3k

CAG Report

Only 61% of carbon tax funds have been spent funding climate action schemes

30 Sep

7.5k

budget 2025

Last push to restore 9% hospitality VAT rate with discussions 'ongoing'

30 Sep

10.6k

budget 2025

Give it away, now: From tax cuts to SSIAs, some of the biggest giveaway budgets of the past

Can Jack Chambers keep up with these lads?

29 Sep

18.6k

budget 2025

Ministers play down reports of Budget rows as talks between coalition leaders continue

Updated 29 Sep

15.7k

Lebanon

Israel says it has killed another top Hezbollah official in Lebanon air strike

Lebanon’s health minister said yesterday that 1,030 people – including 156 women and 87 children – have been killed in Israeli strikes in less than two weeks.

Updated 29 Sep

9.1k

women of honour

Calls for Tribunal deadline into how Defence Forces handled abuse complaints to be extended

29 Sep

3.9k

coimisiún na meán

Media watchdog given power to fine platforms that don't quickly remove terrorist content online

29 Sep

3.5k

Hassan Nasrallah

Kamala Harris says she will 'always support Israel's right to defend itself' against Hezbollah

Updated 28 Sep

31.8k

White Paper

Department of Finance’s ‘White Paper’ ahead of Budget confirms €25 billion surplus

28 Sep

11.7k

Money Money Money

Budget 2025: Everything we know so far about what to expect

28 Sep

33.9k

The Morning Lead

The Taoiseach said asylum seekers are driving up homeless figures: experts say it's far more complicated

Yesterday marked the eighth consecutive month of record homeless figures.

Simon Harris' comments sparked controversy last week when he linked homelessness to record numbers of asylum seekers.

Charities in the sector say systemic factors related to the housing market are more to blame.

Stephen McDermott

28 Sep

17.1k

Lebanon

Israel targets Hezbollah headquarters in Lebanon with Netanyahu pledging to continue strikes

Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, addressing the UN in New York earlier today, said that operations against Hezbollah in Lebanon would continue.

Updated 27 Sep

15.1k

Evening Wrap

The 5 at 5 Five stories, five minutes, five o’clock…

27 Sep

2.2k

Homelessness

Record 14,486 in emergency accommodation, including 4,419 children

Updated 27 Sep

10.1k

€1.4 million

Here's the full cost breakdown of Ireland's fanciest security hut

27 Sep

22.7k

Enterprise Service

Iarnród Éireann apologises for delays caused by timetable changes on northern line into Dublin

27 Sep

11.7k

IFAC

Budget watchdog says ‘pumping’ corporate tax receipts into the economy ‘would be dangerous’

27 Sep

10.0k

Ceasefire

Starmer meets Trump in New York after calling for Gaza ceasefire in UN speech

27 Sep

5.7k

OPW

Office of Public Works pulls €600,000 tender for PR services only hours after advertising it

27 Sep

27.4k

The Morning Lead

Taoiseach says officials are working on a 'paper' setting out options for Michael Shine victims

Harris said the first step remains getting legal advice on the publication of a 2009 report.

Jane Matthews

27 Sep

6.8k

cashing in

'A miracle': Melania Trump talks assassination attempts and FBI raids while promoting her memoir

26 Sep

12.8k

Farrelly Commission

Further extension granted to 'Grace' case inquiry over legal snags

26 Sep

6.7k

Bombardment

Lebanon says 1,540 people have been killed in Israel-Hezbollah conflict since October

The US, France and other allies have jointly called for an immediate 21-day ceasefire to allow for negotiations in the escalating conflict.

Updated 26 Sep

15.7k

Evening Wrap

The 5 at 5 Five stories, five minutes, five o’clock…

26 Sep

2.7k

land hoarding

ESRI calls for land tax to be ‘implemented immediately’ to stop land hoarding in residential market

Updated 26 Sep

10.7k

John McGuinness

Finance Committee chair says spend on security hut shows a ‘lack of respect for the taxpayer’

John McGuinness questioned why the contract for the security hut was ‘allowed to spiral to a sum of €1.4 million’.

Updated 26 Sep

23.1k

Maternity Leave changes

Cairns: TD role suits 'someone with a housewife' as election nears and she expects first child

26 Sep

18.2k

Alternative Budget

Sinn Féin budget, not Govt's, would benefit average worker by €1,000, claims Pearse Doherty

Updated 26 Sep

8.7k

Waterways Ireland

Fences along the Grand Canal designed to stop tents are starting to be removed

26 Sep

7.1k

Addiction

Testing of drugs found in Irish prisons can take three months on average

26 Sep

4.3k

The Daily Poll

Should you be able to claim tax back on your gym membership?

26 Sep

22.0k

NYC

New York City mayor Eric Adams indicted on federal criminal charges, sources say

26 Sep

16.3k