The price of a building a new home has risen faster than incomes of would-be buyers, piling pressure on affordability and sparking calls to manage costs.
The total number of people working at IDA-supported companies has fallen over the past year and the number of new jobs being created here dropped for the first time since the global financial crisis.
Irish investment house Elkstone says businesses and institutions here can get savings rates four times higher by putting funds on deposit with European versus domestic banks.
Cevian Capital, Europe’s largest activist firm and one of the biggest shareholders in Irish building materials giant CRH, generated investment gains of almost 20pc this year, boosted by its large Irish investment, according to a report in the Financial Times.
Just 26pc of business leaders, including internal auditors themselves, say their internal audit team is very effective at raising significant risks, new research from PwC Ireland shows.