Central Statistics Office

The number of new homes built fell by 20.1 per cent in the first quarter compared to the same period a year ago due to the Covid crisis and its associ(...)

Ireland’s Covid-adjusted unemployment rate stood at 22.4 per cent in April, down slightly on the previous month. The latest figures from the Central(...)

The Government was warned that its new shared-equity loan scheme could end up inflating house prices ahead of the budget last year where the sche(...)

The proportion of businesses in the Republic availing of Covid-related income supports or wage subsidies peaked at 57 per cent last April, according t(...)

Retail sales fell by 1.9 per cent in March compared to February as strict lockdown restrictions continued to dampen consumer activity. This follows a(...)

Brexit has triggered a major decline in food trade between Ireland and the UK, according to a report from the Central Statistics Office (CSO). The st(...)

There was a sharp drop in the number of domestic trips taken by Irish residents in the second half of last year compared with the same period the year(...)

The State’s vaccine rollout is having an increasingly significant effect on cases of Covid-19 among healthcare workers and the older population, new d(...)

Two-thirds of the Government’s €13.1 billion Covid spend last year went on income supports, according to new figures from the Central Statistics Offi(...)

Normally property prices fall at times of economic difficulty. But the peculiar economic impact of the pandemic – and the dysfunctional state of the I(...)