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Una McCaffrey

Una McCaffrey

Una McCaffrey has been writing about business and finance since 1998. She joined the business desk of The Irish Times in 2001 and covers most aspects of the sector, specialising in interviews. She won the Best Interview award in the 2011 UCD Smurfit School Business Journalist Awards.

AIB standard variable customers have absorbed a rise of 1.4 percentage points in their interest rate since the start of 2012, while the ECB has cut its main rate four times in the past year and a half. Photograph: Bryan O’Brien
Mortgage rates diverge from European Central Bank rates

Average Irish mortgage rate has been moving out of sync with key ECB rate

AIB said yesterday it was adding 0.4 percentage points to its standard variable mortgage rate. Photograph: Cathal McNaughton/Reuters
Gilmore rejects calls to intervene in AIB rate hike

Sharp criticism of bank as 70,000 householders face average €300 extra Bill

AIB Headquarters in Ballsbridge Dublin. Photograph: Bryan O'Brien
AIB rate hike to hit tens of thousands

New rate comes into effect in June

Keeping ahead of the curve in the beauty business

Rubbing shoulders with Halle Berry is just part of the job for Revlon chief executive, Irishman Alan Ennis

Minister for Finance, Michael Noonan, has appointed former IBRC director Oliver Ellingham to the board of Nama. Photograph: Bryan O'Brien
Former IBRC director appointed to Nama

Oliver Ellingham was non-executive director of IBRC

Kingspan chief executive Gene Murtagh was paid a pension contribution of €127,000 and other allowances of €26,000 in 2012. Photograph: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland
Kingspan chief executive paid €1.38m last year

Gene Murtagh paid performance-related bonus of €595,000

Webprint had a contract to print the Irish Examiner and other Thomas Crosbie Holdings newspapers until the company entered receivership last month. Photograph: Eric Luke
Webprint to cut 26 staff after losing Examiner contract

Staff informed of job losses at Cork printers this morning

Aidan Punch, assistant director general of CSO and Michael Connolly, National Accounts Division of the CSO at Government Buildings. Photograph: Brenda Fitzsimons
CSO figures surprise on the upside, but risks remain

Economists see no basis for upgrades “just yet”

Economy grew for second year in a row in 2012

CSO figures point to improving domestic performance

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Financial Services

AIB Bank Centre at Ballsbridge, Dublin AIB agrees to defer closure of pension schemes pending more talks at Labour Court
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