Economic news and events

Ireland’s harmonised consumer price index inflation accelerated in March, preliminary data published by the Central Statistics Office showed Monday.

The harmonised CPI rose to 1.8% on-year...

UK mortgage approvals were slightly lower than expected last month, according to numbers from the Bank of England on Monday.

Mortgage approvals totalled 65,481 in...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and US President Donald Trump have agreed on the need to ‘keep up the collective pressure on Putin’ during a...

In a shake-up of long-standing travel rules, European nationals heading to the UK will from Wednesday need a mandatory entry permit, which the British government...

The UK ‘reserves the right to respond’ to American tariffs, Keir Starmer has said after US President Donald Trump’s decision to slap a 25% import...

Ireland’s retail sales volumes increased in February with both monthly and annual growth, provisional figures from the Central Statistics Office showed on Friday.

The volume of...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer refused to be ‘dragged’ into a row over fishing rights amid reports the UK may have to sacrifice them for...

UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s director of communications is set to quit Downing Street after nine months in the job.

Matthew Doyle, who served as Starmer’s...

[Alliance News] - The UK government should improve its response to future energy price spikes as Britons face ‘world-beatingly high’ bills, Parliament’s spending watchdog said.

Electricity...

UK retail sales outperformed the market consensus for February, numbers from the Office for National Statistics showed on Friday.

Retail sales volumes rose by 1.0% in...