The Irish Times view on the mortgage market: increasing exposure for young borrowers
To pay these higher prices, borrowers are taking on bigger loans, helped by both rising earnings and Central Bank rules which ...
Donald Trump to be sentenced in Stormy Daniels hush money case, after Supreme Court rejects last minute request
The sentencing, days before his inauguration, marks the culmination of the first-ever criminal case brought against a US ...
Ardagh Group’s biggest shareholder, chair and financial chief quit funding company’s board
Ardagh Group’s biggest shareholder, Paul Coulson, its chairman and chief financial officer (CFO) have quit the board of a ...
LA fires: Death toll rises to 10 as five fires rage around city
Three of the fires around Los Angeles are uncontrolled, with an area of some 117sq km destroyed in recent days ...
Money still oils the wheels of business and justice in China, in spite of Xi’s corruption clampdown
With an economy on the brink of deflation and Donald Trump threatening to start a trade war, China starts the new year with ...
‘I make a mark in the grass with my foot as I go.’ How GAA groundstaff line pitches for new football rules
The FRC proposals mean the country’s 3,200 pitches will have their first new markings since the small arc came in 30 years ...
Higher pay for public service staff to afford homes should be time limited and phased out
The public sector is competing for talent in this tight labour market. An Economic and Social Research Institute study ...
Forget pandering to Independent TDs, these are the issues the new government needs to deal with
As recorded in Liam Weeks’s 2017 book Independents in Irish Party Democracy, the former Donegal TD Thomas Gildea, who was ...
Once called ‘the devil of the Republic’, Le Pen died knowing his ideas are gaining currency
Le Pen used to boast that “I say out loud what others think in silence.” That sentiment is echoed by Trump and users of Elon ...
Liz Bonnin: ‘Moving to Ireland when I was nine was an absolute culture shock’
The TV presenter and biologist on the joys of her upbringing, the beauty of the Burren, and surviving the Irish weather ...
‘I could be beside someone doing the same work for more money.’ The plight of section 39 workers
Simon Harris’s interaction with Charlotte Fallon during the general election campaign brought carers’ issues to the fore. Now ...
Declan O’Callaghan faces second round of proceedings to be struck off for ‘egregious professional misconduct’
Tribunal finds solicitor engaged in ‘teeming and lading’ of funds held in trust for vulnerable children of deceased clients ...