People working in Dublin City earn the highest income in the country taking in almost €40,000 in gross income.

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has only €600m in additional tax cuts and spending increases - which may, at best, only allow him €300m in income tax cuts, the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (Ifac) has said, in its first major report ahead of October’s budget.

Household incomes are at record levels, according to a new report from business group IBEC.

Financial experts recommend that a person should limit their housing costs to one third of their net income.

Ireland continues to have one of the best rates of income distribution in the European Union.

At €23,298, workers in the Dublin region had the highest disposable income per person in 2015, some 14.5% higher than the State average of €20,334 and around 6% higher than the 2014 average of €21,919.

Deliveroo has said it is offering staff the first sickness and accident insurance available to on-demand food delivery riders in the UK.

Irish people enjoy some of the highest average earnings among OECD countries but end up with one of the lowest disposable incomes due to high personal taxes and the cost of living, a new report shows.

One of Ireland’s top YouTubers, Daithi De Nogla, generated more than €1m from his YouTube channel last year.

The “squeezed middle” is set to benefit from tax band changes in next month’s budget, amid Central Bank warnings that tax rises may be required to rein in an overheating economy.

Low and middle-income earners are set to receive a de facto tax cut in the next budget through a raising of the threshold deciding when they pay higher rates to the State.

The BBC has responded to the chairman of the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee's suggestion that salaries of all the broadcaster's highest earners should be disclosed, regardless of the source of income.

Family homelessness has risen 200% since 2011 and 55% of homeless people are in the labour force. Key to this is the need for adequate incomes, local authority housing and an affordable, secure private rental market, writes Niamh Randall.

Income earners who earn less than the average working wage but who get hit with the top rate of tax are likely to see major reliefs in October’s Budget, it is expected.

Income inequality in Ireland remains “remarkably stable”, according to a report from the Economic and Social Research Institute.

Irish middle-income workers are paying more income tax than those in Britain, Spain, Sweden, the US and Switzerland.

The Government must deliver on short-term measures in the Budget to directly support farm incomes, the Irish Farmers Association declared yesterday.

The Dáil has begun considering calls to pay every public worker a so-called 'living wage' of €11.50 per hour.

The leader of the Irish Farmers Association has claimed the farm income crisis is deepening because of falling prices and poor weather.

Farm leaders have stepped up their campaign to ease the falling income plight of dairy farmers.

Weekly wages in the private sector grew 2.2% in the past year, while public sector wages were little changed, according to official figures.

Average incomes on Irish farms grew by 6% in 2015.

Newly merged betting services giant Paddy Power-Betfair is expected to increase revenues by 16% this year, with growth of 10% and 8% anticipated in each of the following two years.

A British exit from the EU would wipe as much as £6,400 (€8,144) from average household incomes in the UK as trade deals sour, according to research by the London School of Economics.

A judge has rejected a State application to confiscate the “hard earned” income of two prostitutes which was stolen and later recovered.