“Do it now to limit the spread and keep it down and catch it before there’s more community spread,” Dr Yvonne Williams told RTÉ's Today with Séan O’Rourke.

A relatively small falloff in windfall corporation tax receipts would deliver an outsized and longstanding hit to government finances, the Economic and Social Research Institute has warned.

The study also shows that the prices paid by first-time buyers vary widely in different parts of the country.

Young homeowners are most at risk of going into mortgage arrears if the European Central Bank raises interest rates.

LoyLap is looking to enter the US market with its cashless payment systems, writes Trish Dromey

Comedian Al Porter is to take “time away from the spotlight” following a weekend of allegations of unwanted groping and advances by the broadcaster.

House prices will continue to climb strongly over the next three years bringing closer the time when the Government may have to consider raising taxes to cool a potentially overheating economy, the country’s leading think tank has warned.

Consumers are still failing to tap any feel good factor about their personal finances and are reluctant to make expensive purchases despite the continuing growth of the economy and lower unemployment, according to a leading survey.

The Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has left its forecasts for Irish economic growth unchanged – at 3.8% for this year and 3.6% for 2018 – but has urged new Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe to adopt a more “cautious” stance than previously envisaged in October’s budget.

Ireland’s largest hotels group has announced a €2m investment in one of Cork’s most successful hotels as part of a major rebranding, and has formally completed the takeover of the former Burlington Hotel, Dublin.

The Dublin comic Conor O’Toole is trying to figure out what kind of man he has become in his show, Manhood, which has a week-long run at the Tiger Dublin Fringe later in the month.

The Government hopes to make Dublin a hub for a eurozone non-bank lending market, according to the secretary general of the Department of Finance, John Moran.

Irish SMEs are among the most heavily reliant on banks for funding, although since the financial crash there has been a move to trade credit and equity for working capital.

Finding customers, not bank finance, is the biggest problem being faced by small and medium-sized business in Ireland, research from the Economic and Social Research Institute (ESRI) has found.

A TOP golf course builder who blockaded a tourist town’s championship course yesterday said he is prepared “to do time” to secure the €500,000 he is owed.

THIRTY years after winning the Cork championship for the first time, Nemo Rangers treasure their reputation as one of the leading football clubs in the country.