When London’s Saracens beat Leinster in the European rugby final in Newcastle last May, the club, and its sugar daddy owner, Nigel Wray, could not have imagined that win might be a high-water mark.

Nine Irish citizens have been named on the Forbes billionaires' list.

When people are addicted to drugs or alcohol or food, so that their life revolves around acquiring and consuming, we regard this as a mental illness.

A new economic report warns that it is the working and lower-middle classes that are struggling the most in Ireland.

Social Justice Ireland is calling on the Government to set a five-year plan to get rid of poverty in Ireland.

Oxfam's Public Good or Private Wealth? report found that billionaires watched their fortunes increase by nearly $2.5bn per day last year, as the wealth of the world's poorest dwindled by 11%.

The Mistry family top the Sunday Independent Rich List once again this year.

The average Irish household is now wealthier than at the peak of the Celtic Tiger.

Irish households are the second wealthiest in Europe after Luxembourg.

Growing inequality resulted in 82% of new global wealth going to the richest 1% last year, while the poorest half of the world saw their prosperity flatline, a report by Oxfam has shown.

Nearly every flashpoint issue bedevilling our world is rooted in how wealth generated in a society is used or shared — or if should be shared at all — to benefit everyone in that society. The eternal stand-off between property rights and the common good remains unresolved and, if history is anything to go by, it is likely to remain so.

A new report has highlighted that the eight richest people in the world own the same wealth as 3.6 billion people who make up the poorer half of the world’s population, writes Denise O'Donoghue.

Some predicted a win for Trump would spook the markets but Tom Metcalf and Jack Witzig found the prospect of a businessman in the White House just helped the rich grow richer.

The top 10% of Irish society hold more than half of the country’s wealth, while the bottom 50% have just 4.95% of it.

Politicians and business leaders gathering in the Swiss Alps this week face an increasingly divided world, with the poor falling further behind the super-rich and political fissures in the US, Europe, and the Middle East running deeper than at any time in decades.

Oxfam says that just 62 people own the equivalent wealth of half of the wealth in the world.

More than half of the wealth in Ireland is held by just 10% of households, according to a new study by think-tank TASC.

Wealthy people simply cannot understand why their business affairs should be put under the microscope, even when the conduct of those affairs impinges to a great degree on the public interest, writes Kyran Fitzgerald.

More than half of the country’s net household wealth rests in the hands of just 10% of the population, while people in less well-off sectors of society owe more than they own.

A dispute over B B King’s health and wealth has been thrown out of court by a judge in Las Vegas who said two investigations found no evidence the blues legend is being abused.

Rory McIlroy has sprinted to the top of the sports wealth rankings in Ireland at the age of just 25.

Ireland’s pensioners are the happiest group of people in the country - happier than students, young families, and most other people in the EU - and cite their health as the primary cause of that happinness. 

The world’s richest person got even richer this year. Bill Gates’s net worth rose to $79.2bn in 2015 from $76bn last year, Forbes said.

The 85 wealthiest people in the world spent $1.8trn on luxuries last year. But what did they buy and for how much, wonders Rita de Brun.