More than half of Irish businesses expect a cyber attack on their operations by the end of 2017 while 36pc have already experienced one this year, according to the results of a new survey. [...]

How to deal with the Border issue post-Brexit looks increasingly intractable. Foreign Minister Simon Coveney has argued we are on the cusp of agreement on maintaining the Common Travel A [...]

With so many seemingly attractive offers out there to lure first time buyers it can be hard to navigate the mortgage market. We spoke to Áine Carroll, Director of Communications and Mark [...]

Eurozone countries remain vulnerable to another crisis because they don't have the fiscal space to absorb future shocks, the outgoing head of the Eurogroup has warned. Jeroen Dijsselbloe [...]

The cost of building a two-bedroom apartment is way in excess of the selling price, meaning few developments are likely to go ahead unless the Government tackles Vat, levies and other costs, a new rep [...]

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has issued an unapologetic defence of his decision to increase the rate of stamp duty on commercial property transactions from 2pc to 6pc in the Budget. [...]

If your loan is sold to a vulture fund or another bank all of the original contracts remain the same - though that includes the obligation to make repayments. AIB isn't selling residenti [...]

If only there was a simple formula for predicting market crashes, we'd all get rich. (Well, those who knew it would). But there isn't. Except that, just maybe, there might be when it comes to housing. [...]

Ireland is a high cost location for small firms, according to Linda Barry, assistant director at the Small Firms Association (SFA). Addressing the Joint Oireachtas Committee on Business, [...]

Families have been given fresh hope that their tracker nightmare will end this year, after the Government threatened to hit banks with massive tax bills if they do not rectify the mess. [...]

A year-old pact underpinning billions of dollars of transatlantic data transfers won a green light from the European Union yesterday after a first review to ensure the US protects Europeans' data stor [...]

AIB is preparing to launch the largest non-performing loan sale in its history next month as it embarks on the final phase of its post-crisis balance sheet purge amid a fresh crackdown on the sector f [...]

Beryl Dunne, an IT manager who lives in Bray, Co Wicklow, is semi-retired and said she had to ramp up her payments so that she could retire when she wanted. "I wanted to retire by 50 so, [...]

Changes to the way the State pension payment is calculated were introduced in 2012. The new rules hit women hard. They are typically losing around €35 in payments. And they will not g [...]

Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe has delivered his first Budget and it's safe to say it was a bonanza for nobody, but who has fared the best? WINNERS: Social welfare recipients Social [...]

Nama's top bosses have moved to pre-empt criticism of the agency's new role managing the Government's latest housebuilding fund, including telling the Irish Independent they'll work with builders rega [...]

The Government has been accused of only adding 31 homes to house building targets for next year. While Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe admitted some of the numbers in the Budget on soci [...]

It's the one day when the most popular thing for Irish people to talk about is not the weather. Budget Day gives us an incredible amount of mileage to air our views to anyone who will li [...]

Budget 2018 will have " no fireworks" and no "big bonanza", according to Taoiseach Leo Varadkar. But he said the series of tax and spending measures will ensure the country's books are b [...]

The Telephone Allowance is to be brought back from October 2018, Independent.ie has learned. A decision was taken to prioritise the allowance which was abolished in 2014 over the restora [...]