Growing up in Ballyclough, Co Cork, you couldn’t get Laura Fitzgerald off the farm.

From Irish banks exposed to bad loans and the slow process to redirect resources, Kyran Fitzgerald writes on the climate challenges identified by a fascinating conference

Naming a successor to Seamus Coffey as head of the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (Ifac) will likely take months should

The Central Bank, the Parliamentary Budget Office, and the world’s largest ratings firms have all urged the next government to avoid pumping up spending that could lead to a new crash.

The Department of Finance is accusing the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (IFAC) of misrepresenting the main findings of a report on Ireland’s corporation tax take.

Here is a selection of people who are starting interesting new roles with public and private organisations in Ireland.

Farm businesses have been warned to expect fines of thousands of euro in 2020, if they are not compliant with the PAYE modernisation which was introduced 12 months ago, the biggest change in the Irish PAYE income tax system since the 1960s.

The Fiscal Advisory Council, or Ifac, was set up in 2011 to help Government avoid the mistakes that had led to economic crisis in 2008.

It comes as the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (Ifac) warned that up to €6bn, or 60% of the corporation tax take may be "temporary" which leaves this country extremely exposed financially.

Ireland will have to prepare for a fall in lucrative corporation taxes in the coming years, the Finance Minister admits.

Any sudden drop-off in booming corporation tax receipts could be replaced by rising home and office stamp duty taxes, Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has suggested.

Minister Donohoe will brief Cabinet Minister's today on the likely approach he will take next month.

A North-only backstop will be one of solutions discussed between Taoiseach Leo Varadkar and British prime minister Boris Johnson today in fresh attempts to break the Brexit deadlock.

As Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin faces into a critical few months for his party and his status in opposition, he tells Political Correspondent Juno McEnroe about his plans

If you were Paschal Donohoe, you would need news like this like a hole in the head.

A new survey of more than 2,000 farmers shows less than 300 with a clear succession plan in place, and about 860 of them not planning for succession because of their farm viability concerns.

More than two out of every five farmers say their business is not viable enough to encourage the next generation to take it on.

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe will have to guess whether Britain will crash out of the EU when he presents his budget on Tuesday, October 8, he has confirmed.

As hard as it is to believe, we are now in the run-in to Budget 2020, which will be presented in the early days of October.

The Taoiseach says he is "keeping the barbarians from the gates" when it comes to overspending.

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe has defended his fiscal policies and rejected criticism by the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council (IFAC) which said in a report that the Government’s medium-term projections for the public finances are “not credible”.

The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council says a return to normal levels of corporation tax could wipe €3.6bn off the annual tax take.

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.

Tax-efficient approaches to rewarding farm labour can help retain workers, says Declan McEvoy, head of tax with ifac.

The Irish Exporters Association has said it believes the UK’s proposed tariff regime in the event of a no-deal Brexit is against World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules.

Government supports for Irish firms trading in continental Europe are "too little too late" because of the focus on cross-border business, a Cork-based medical service exporter has said.

Hospital consultants who can earn up to €250,000 a year will have to be paid more if vacant positions are to be filled, according to Fianna Fáil’s finance spokesman Michael McGrath.

When it comes to our economy, things can turn with lightning speed, says Kyran Fitzgerald