AIB on path to financial health as ECB insists no early rate hikes amid energy prices crunch  

ECB president Christine Lagarde moved on Wednesday to dampen down market bets that the central bank will be forced to hike interest rates as soon as next autumn should energy price hikes and other price inflation threaten to become a permanent fixture

Colin Hunt, chief executive of AIB, is increasingly confident about the economic outlook.

AIB chief executive Colin Hunt said the bank was on course to return to financial health after the Covid economic storm and is looking at resuming dividend payments based on this year's earnings. 

In an update that cover the end-September quarter, Mr Hunt said the lender was "trading well and is on track to meet earnings expectations for the full year".