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Budget 2026: Infrastructure funding is here – but a “radical overhaul” is needed to spend it

Budget 2026: Infrastructure funding is here – but a “radical overhaul” is needed to spend it

Budget day started with an arm of the State seeking advice on how to spend €9.5 billion.  On Tuesday morning, Transport Infrastructure Ireland published an update to its M500 procuremen...

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Winners, losers and the fine print: What Budget 2026 really means for business

Winners, losers and the fine print: What Budget 2026 really means for business

Speaking at an event last week, enterprise minister Peter Burke said that Budget 2026 would be an “enterprise budget”. This is familiar language used by many an enterprise minister duri...

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Record investment and developer tax breaks: Housing crisis steers Budget 2026

Record investment and developer tax breaks: Housing crisis steers Budget 2026

Without question, housing is the number one issue among Irish voters, from those fresh-faced on the electoral register to older generations, the parents and grandparents struggling to s...

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Ian Kehoe on Budget 2026: Fiscal reality in a land accustomed to no hard choices

Ian Kehoe on Budget 2026: Fiscal reality in a land accustomed to no hard choices

Context matters. In fact, when it comes to budgets, context matters the most.  This time last year, Budget 2025 was a paradox of caution, incrementalism and good old-fashioned electoral...

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Businessman Colm Wu agrees to pay €2.15m to liquidated companies

Businessman Colm Wu agrees to pay €2.15m to liquidated companies

Businessman Colm Wu has agreed to be disqualified as a director and pay €2.15 million to three companies he ran, including a hotel in Dublin on Eden Quay and a well-known pub on Dame St...

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