A man who syphoned off nearly €1m from his business PayPal account to his own bank account has been disqualified by the High Court from acting as a company director for five years.

Corkman speaks out about State continuing to deny liability in school sex abuse case

New research has found very few older people in Ireland are downsizing to live in a smaller home.

Older couples ‘downsizing’ to smaller properties could free up housing stock, according to a report, although it warns of the risk of social isolation.

The chair of the new Climate Change Advisory Council has said the group won’t hold back on criticising the Government for failings in tackling carbon emissions.

The majority of middle-aged people in Ireland have little or no idea of their pension entitlements, a study shows.

For generations, governments have employed the tactic of commissioning reports on awkward issues in an effort to stave off the rainy day when the issues will have to be dealt with if somehow they cannot be forgotten in the meantime.

Around 2000BC, Egyptian tax officials came up with a clever wheeze.

Men who suffer sex abuse as a child are three times more likely to be unemployed in their later years because of sickness or disability, a study has revealed.

Men who suffered sexual abuse as a child are three times more likely to be unable to work in later life due to ill-health or disability.

Möbius is the culmination of months of hard work, writes Georgina O’Halloran.

They experienced large falls in wealth during the recession and expect to work well into their 60s, yet the over-50s remain essentially upbeat about their health and wellbeing, according to new research.

A company director who was served with legal proceedings last Saturday checked himself into St John of God’s the following day, the High Court has heard.

Childhood trauma may be as strong a driver of emigration as unemployment, research shows.

Ireland’s rapidly ageing population is leading to a financial time bomb, with warnings that no plan is in place to cope with the dramatic rise in those aged over 65.

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THEY may hope to have property and other possessions to pass on but a group of Ireland’s over-50s have already left possibly their most valuable legacy in a test tube.

IRELAND’s gross domestic product (GDP) will be nearly 4% stronger by the end of 2012 — according to state-backed think-tank the ESRI — but the economy is still only “limping along” and no relief on the jobless front is on the way, the institute added.

WITH so many strong and conflicting views on how to tackle the budget deficit in circulation this issue is getting massive attention.

The European Commission is rejecting calls for an extension to Ireland's deadline for getting its finances under control.

The Government needs to double its savings to a massive €15bn over the coming years to meet its own targets, a stark forecast warned today.

IMPOSING €15 billion of cutbacks to get the deficit under control by 2014 could tip the economy into a “protracted recession”, the ESRI has warned.

THE Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has warned the Croke Park agreement may have to be torn up as the economy faces massive cutbacks of €15 billion to correct the budget deficit.

AS many as 120,000 workers will quit the country over the next two years, driven out by the jobs crisis, a report out yesterday said.

IRELAND will be one of four countries given an additional year to bring its budget back into line with eurozone rules, Economic Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said.

THE Government thinktank the ESRI has called for a 20% cut in child benefit as part of the Government’s drive to slash €4 billion in spending from the next budget.

The leader of the country’s biggest union today accused a top government think-tank of trying to protect the rich from the burden of swingeing budget cuts.

Child benefit payments should be cut by a fifth and public sector salaries slashed in December’s budget, a top economic think-tank warned today.

The country will remain in the grips of a recession for at least another year, economists warned today.

THE contraction in the economy is expected to continue through this year and into next, with a very modest rate of growth now expected to emerge in mid-2010, the latest quarterly economic bulletin from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has said.

THE Economic & Social Research Institute (ESRI), the government-funded think tank, has held its growth forecast steady at -8.9% for 2009, for the first time since this recession started to hit home in 2008.

The Irish economy is shrinking faster than any other developed country in the world, the state’s leading think-tank warned today.

THE Irish economy will experience the worst slump of any industrialised economy since the 1930s with one in six workers facing unemployment by the end of next year, according to the latest forecast from the Government’s economic think-tank.

FULL nationalisation of the major banks may be the best way of ending uncertainty about the future of the banks.

The Irish economy is shrinking faster than any other developed country in the world, the state’s leading think-tank warned today.

A BLEAK picture of an economy unable to avoid extended international turmoil has been presented in the winter report of the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI).

PUBLIC sector workers have been told by a top economic think-tank to take a pay cut to help the Government balance its budget.

SOME key figures in the latest quarterly commentary from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) confirms just how far off the rails the economy has gone.

ONE in every 12 workers will be without a job next year as a prolonged recession bites, the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has forecast.

The Finance Minister Brian Lenihan says his predictions on the rate of unemployment are not as pessimistic as leading economist Dr Alan Barrett's.

Finance Minister Brian Lenihan is utterly out of his depth in his current role in charge of the nation’s purse strings, Labour leader Eamon Gilmore claimed today.

THE GOVERNMENT is expected to cut spending immediately after warnings that the country is plunging into a recession, but does not expect to make changes to the tax regime until December’s budget.

This week, the Economic and Social Research Institute said recession will occur in Ireland for the first time in 25 years. This means the economy will shrink for at least six months in a row. Conor Ryan looks at the likely battlegrounds in the fight to regain control of the economy.

The State's economic and social research institute is predicting growth next year to hit the lowest levels since 1992.