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Fine Gael and Taoiseach Leo Varadkar are “out-of-touch” elites who are seeking to divide Irish society, Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin has claimed.(...)

The budget did not do enough to adjust the tax and welfare systems for the expected rise in wages next year, an analysis from the Economic and Social(...)

Wage increases will mean that many people end up paying as much tax as a proportion of their income next year as they did this year, despite the budge(...)

Just as it is doing quite well out of the confidence and supply agreement in general, Fianna Fáil can feel it has done nicely from the second instalme(...)

The Budget 2018 provision to increase stamp duty on commercial property transactions was passed in the Dáil late on Tuesday night. With Fianna Fail a(...)

It proved to be a particularly savage budget for sunbed-loving smokers with a taste for sugary drinks, but for everyone else Paschal Donohoe’s first s(...)

In a budget that was largely devoid of measures that had not been well flagged in advance, the only real surprise was perhaps in some hotly tipped mea(...)

Middle-income earners and two-income families were the main, albeit modest, beneficiaries of Budget 2018 with a combination of USC cuts and a widening(...)

For some weeks now the Government has been trying to figure out how to stop Budget 2018 falling completely flat. The only way to do so was to raise a (...)

Expect to hear the word “sustainable” a lot today, as Paschal Donohoe and Leo Varadkar seek to make a virtue of the extremely tight budgetary spot in (...)