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Credit unions to loan up to €10m for home energy upgrades

Up to €10 million is expected to be loaned to credit union members for a new home improvement funding scheme this year. The ProEnergy Homes scheme w(...)

Credit unions want greater flexibility to set their own business models. Photograph: Colin Keegan/Collins Dublin.
Credit unions could be allowed to push up the cost of loans

The Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe is set to press ahead with plans to allow credit unions to hike up the cost of the loans they offer their cus(...)

Under the existing rules, credit unions are permitted to invest in a range of specified classes.
Central Bank to review credit union regulations

The Central Bank of Ireland is planning to review the regulations around how credit unions can invest their members’ funds, in a move that could open (...)

The closure of O’Dwyers shop in Boherlahan, Co Tipperary, after 70 years of familly ownership will render the parish a less attractive place to live or work.
Lack of services not lack of people is what is killing rural Ireland

Last month an era for a Co Tipperary parish ended. Eddie and Helen O’Dwyer retired as proprietors of the local shop, and the family name disappeared f(...)

The Central Bank said that credit union lending continues to fall, dropping from €7 billion in 2008 to just €4 billion in 2015 - a near 15-year low. (Photograph: Matt Kavanagh/The Irish Times)
Credit unions allowed to accept deposits of €100,000 plus

The Central Bank is set to amend a new rule introduced on January 1st which prevented credit unions from accepting deposits of more than €100,000 per(...)

The Credit Union Restructuring Board (Rebo) last month said it now only expected to spend €20 million on the consolidation process by the time it winds up in March
Credit unions criticise ‘overzealous’ regulatory plans

Central Bank proposals to exert stronger regulatory oversight on the credit union sector are “overzealous” and “take risk management to a point where (...)

Participants Brendan Halpin as Sir George Carew (original fort builder) and Melissa Shiels as Queen Elizabeth pictured with visitor Gerry Crowley before a ceremony marking the official hand over Elizabeth Fort, Cork city by the OPW to Cork City Council. Photograph: Daragh Mc Sweeney/Provision
Cork’s 17th C fort can be ‘jewel’ for city tourism , Mayor says

A 400-year-old fort in Cork can become “the jewel in the crown” of the city’s developing tourism industry, Lord Mayor of Cork Catherine Clancy said y(...)