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Rocketing rents and utility prices mean that Ireland now has highest housing costs across the EU-27

Data unlikely to alter ECB’s rate hike plans

Latest flash estimate from CSO points to a softening in headline price growth on the back of lower energy prices

Price growth in Ireland slows to about 8.2%, while euro zone inflation rate dips back into single figures

Revised third-quarter numbers show euro zone as a whole grew more than initially estimated

Bloc’s emissions on the rise in first quarter of 2022 compared to a year earlier

Welfare increases and tax changes to significantly exceed planned €1.5bn

CSO finds alcohol prices in State just over double the EU average last year

Price growth across single currency area comes in ahead of expectations

Great unknown hanging over markets is how long the war in Ukraine will last

Ireland’s 7.3 per cent annual rate is close to the Euro zone average

It is claimed EV buyers could stand to save as much as €3,900 per year on motoring costs

Prospect of European recession ‘growing day by day’, says Vincent Mortier

Inflation forecast to hit 8.5 per cent in coming months, not encountered since 1980s

Energy remains the dominant driving force in rising prices across euro zone, followed by food, alcohol and tobacco

Opinion: Grid network charges in Ireland are wildly out of line with those in other EU states

Taoiseach says Government is ‘serious about further reducing the gender pay gap’

Household consumption dropped because of another wave of Covid-19 infections

Invest instead of saving, ask for a raise, and other ways to ensure you have a nest egg

Vladimir Putin has personally given the sustainable energy sector its biggest shot in the arm for years

Ordinary families pay high price for failure to build a social democracy

Explainer: State outpaces European counterparts on rent and transport rises

We celebrate weight loss, and our basic attitude towards being overweight is disapproval

Minimum pricing will push the high costs of alcohol in Ireland even higher

The Irish economy – like its people – is multifaceted, shape-shifting and inconsistent

Price growth is being driven by energy prices and supply chain disruption

Fertility has become a booming private industry in Ireland

Cantillon: ECB chief economist says current price growth is part of pandemic cycle

Surprise increase to 5% piles pressure on ECB to speed up stimulus scaleback

Gap between renters and homeowners widening as mortgage costs become cheaper than rent

State-owned company plans campaign to recruit more women postal staff

Three in five people aged 25 to 64 have third level qualifications, CSO report says

Several German carmakers have been forced to ease production

Lack of supply and undeveloped rental market key factors in house price growth

Change would not affect trend on home working but could transfer employer costs to State

Eurostat says GDP across bloc grew by 2.2% as Irish economy expands by 6.3%

Increase in price growth was fuelled by energy costs, but food prices also increased

Cantillon: With rising prices largely driven by energy hikes, ECB need not change policy

ECB sees acceleration caused largely by temporary factors

Majority of plastics found around coast came from clothing and fishing equipment