KBC survey says sentiment is little changed but that consumers hope next month's budget will help ease soaring costs

Ireland will need the whole-time equivalent of up to 3,236 extra healthcare staff by 2025

Students from more disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to be early school leavers

Imposing a passenger tax or charging Vat on flights, as other countries do, would be costly to the airlines and the economy

Housing shortages are stoking house price and rental inflation

The Economic and Social Research Institute, in its quarterly economic commentary published in June, argued the case for increased government capital spending in the present very low interest rate environment.

Inequality highlighted

A review of the Help to Buy scheme data suggests that many households with large deposits have received support, the Esri will say

The critical role the ECB is playing in buying government bonds across the eurozone that ensures Irish sovereign costs are kept at historically low levels will be "significant" in ensuring Ireland emerges from the Covid-19 crisis, the Economic and ...

The slump in emissions due to the Covid-19 lockdowns will do little to help Ireland meet its emissions-reduction targets this year or tougher goals in 2030, according to new research by the Economic and Social Research Institute.

Schools can play a vital role in encouraging healthy behaviours in youths, a new study from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) finds.

The devastating impact of the Coronavirus on the economy will be laid bare to the Oireachtas Covid Committee tomorrow, with members to be told that Ireland is facing a deficit of €30 billion.

The Covid-19 pandemic unemployment payment will likely be extended through to the end of the year adding to the costs of the exchequer but the budget deficit may not necessarily balloon more than already feared if early positive signs for tax revenues are realised, a leading economist has said.

Here is a selection of people starting new roles with companies and organisations with operations in Ireland, including Cornmarket, AMX, Oaklee Housing, Mondi, ESRI and Neuromod Devices.

That is the worst case scenario outlined in the latest quarterly economic research by the ESRI.

The European Commission has proposed a €1.85 trillion package to save Europe from economic devastation, as it pledged not to repeat past mistakes when millions were unemployed and countries were left nursing unsustainable debts.

The Irish property sector is preparing to kick start the housing market on June 8, after months of stagnation due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Government is under mounting pressure to relax social distancing guidelines as the retail and hospitality sectors warn of thousands of permanent job losses unless the two-metre rule is changed.

Reduced household spending, due to restrictions imposed to fight the spread of the Covid-19 pandemic, could result in a decline of nearly €7bn in indirect tax revenues for the State this year, the Economic and Social Research Institute - or ESRI - has said.

Commercial property prices in Britain could fall as much as 15% this year, the giant insurer Aviva which manages billions in investments in Britain and Ireland, has said.

The Covid-19 economic shock waves will mean new house builds will fall far short of what is required this year and next year, storing up further problems in terms of prices and rents in an already dysfunctional Irish property market, the Economic and Social Research Institute has warned.

The Covid-19 economic shockwaves will mean house builds will fall far short of what is required this year and next, storing up more problems for prices and rents in an already dysfunctional property market, the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has warned.

Though former president of America, Barack Obama, did not mention anyone by name this weekend when he attacked officials’ response to coronavirus, saying the pandemic showed many “aren’t even pretending to be in charge” he made his sharpest intervention so far in the White House race.

A plan “to stop the damaging roller coaster” of another boom-and-bust cycle for house prices should be a priority for the Government and other policymakers working to protect the Irish economy from the Covid-19 fallout, a research professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has warned.

Siobhan Masterson from the business group says issues in society can be fixed - but decisions need to be taken now.

Government and other policymakers will have to redouble their efforts “to stop the damaging roller coaster” of boom-and-bust for Irish house prices that few other countries experience as the property market here heads for another tumble, the research professor at the Economic and Social Research Institute has warned.

The hospitality sector needs a 0% VAT rate to give them a "fighting chance" of survival, the Junior Minister for Tourism has admitted.

Exchequer figures published this afternoon are set to show the mounting toll the State faces from the Covid-19 economic storm and will point to the Government budget deficit soaring to €30bn this year.

The country has been told must “find a new way of living” as severe restrictions on personal freedoms are to be extended beyond next Tuesday.

With restrictions on movement, there should be an increased focus on farm safety, writes Ray Ryan.

Prof Edgar Morgenroth formerly worked at the Economic and Social Research Institute and is a leading expert on international supply chains.

The summer has effectively been cancelled, with gatherings of more than 5,000 people banned until September because of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Business groups have said that Ireland stands out as one of the few jurisdictions that doesn't offer some sort of ultra-cheap or zero-rate interest loans during the crisis.

A large number of lower-paid workers and those paid close to the minimum wage would get less under the wage-support scheme than they would under the Covid-19 pandemic payments, according to a report by the Economic and Social Research Institute.

The cost to the State of the Covid-19 crisis will likely reach €30bn this year should the shutdown of large parts of the economy extend beyond the current 12 weeks, leading economists have said.

The €3.7bn cost of the package of income and business supports the Government announced last week was estimated on the “worst-case” basis of 800,000 people having lost or on the verge of losing their jobs by late June, the Irish Examiner understands.

COVID-19 poses the single largest challenge to the Irish economy since the financial crisis.

Consumer spending levels are likely to fall by between 5% and 10% this year, rather than increasing by 2%-3% as previously expected, one economist has warned.

There are few allies as sought after by counsel defending an accused but innocent man as a reliable historian.

Irish unemployment is likely to surge to over 18% by early summer and could take more than a year before it falls back to its pre-crisis level of under 5% — depending on the success of measures to rein in the Covid-19 pandemic here and across the world.

Ireland will slide into a recession this year as large parts of the economy that depend on people spending money in the now-shuttered shops dries up, with thousands out of work and the incomes of many others falling, the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) predicts.

France, the rest of the eurozone, and the UK will join the Irish economy in slumping into recession this year, while the US is already shedding millions of jobs amid the Covid-19 storm, economists have warned.

Irish unemployment is likely to surge and peak at 18% by early summer and could take more than a year before falling back to its pre-crisis level -- depending on the success of measures to rein in the Covid-19 pandemic here and across the world.

Cheap, simple changes to public behaviour could slow the spread of the escalating coronavirus pandemic.