A Dublin restaurant is booked out for months on end and not for the first time.

Finance Minister, Michael Noonan has vowed the country will avoid repeating past mistakes and won’t return to a ‘boom and bust’ cycle on the back of its current strong economic recovery.

Pre-tax profits at the firm that owns the exclusive five-star Conrad Hotel in Dublin last year increased by 11% to €1.025m.

The boom in Australian buy-to-let mortgages that has helped fuel record household borrowing could be the next driver of bank bad debts rather than corporate defaults.

Consumers are more buoyant now than they were even in the so-called ‘boom’ years of 2006 and 2007, claims a new survey.

Cheating and giving false information was "endemic" in planning during the boom time in Co Kerry — a county that now has thousands of empty one-off houses, An Taisce has said.

DEFICITS are falling, employment rising, pints are €8 — we must be getting a new boom. It’ll need a name, I suppose. Let’s hope it’s a good name or at least better than the last one.