The "ifs and buts" of a cost-of-living crisis

Kieran Coughlan, independent financial advisor, looks at the global factors driving the questions that farmers and consumers are asking themselves about the domestic Irish market

The Department of Finance have put on record their expectation that inflation will run at a further 7% for 2023.

Inflation is public enemy number one. 

The vast majority of us as Joe and Josephine public are suffering in one way or another, whether that’s through increased fuel costs, home heating and electricity costs, food price inflation or increased mortgage payments as a result of recent interest rate rises.