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Public sector average wages are €300 per week higher than private sector
25 Aug 2014
45.8k
286
Industrial disputes have cost 8,324 working days so far this year
21 Aug 2014
4.8k
26
Loads more people from the UK are coming here on holiday
14 Aug 2014
17.0k
72
July sees big jump in licensing of new vehicles in Ireland
8 Aug 2014
5.1k
23
Passengers, locations and freight: Here are the key stats for Irish aviation in 2013
7 Aug 2014
8.1k
9
Austerity is driving up (some) consumer prices
7 Aug 2014
11.0k
10
Is Canada's a-pork-alypse coming to Ireland?
3 Aug 2014
26.1k
34
Southwest region performing strongly as unemployment rate falls again
30 Jul 2014
7.1k
55
Working hours, hospital visits, and more gender differences in Irish society
30 Jul 2014
7.4k
33
Government deficit drops to 5.6% of GDP
29 Jul 2014
8.9k
37
There is a massive gender divide in the civil service
29 Jul 2014
13.7k
22
These are the main differences between men and women in Irish society
29 Jul 2014
47.3k
47
Record tourism season predicted after 10% boost in visits
29 Jul 2014
6.8k
37
Trading up: Ireland exported €1bn more in a month compared to last year
14 Jul 2014
6.7k
16
We bought five times more electric cars this year...
7 Jul 2014
7.1k
15
The Briefcase: good news on the economy, a boom-time property market and the most hated family in Ireland
4 Jul 2014
12.4k
7
The economy grew by 2.7% in the first three months of the year
3 Jul 2014
6.1k
33
Almost 3,000 extra young people were signing on last month
2 Jul 2014
10.3k
74
B2B service producer prices up 3.4% in Q1 2014
25 Jun 2014
221
House, apartment prices up 10.6% nationally in year to May
25 Jun 2014
8.4k
46
The number of houses granted planning permission will probably surprise you
20 Jun 2014
22.2k
32
Warning of future nursing homes crisis if 'action isn't taken now'
18 Jun 2014
7.8k
11
The recession claimed 15% of Irish businesses
18 Jun 2014
4.8k
9
'Now is not the time for wage rises' - ISME
13 Jun 2014
6.3k
43
Irish construction output is on the way up, but house building is still down
11 Jun 2014
6.4k
59
Huge increase in number of people buying new cars compared to last year
9 Jun 2014
5.1k
20
Women in Ireland are having fewer children
30 May 2014
23.6k
95
Cars, medicine and books all down as retail sales fall
28 May 2014
9.0k
21
Property prices up by 8.5% on last year, but still down on peak prices
28 May 2014
9.6k
60
There are now almost 50,000 more full-time jobs than last year, many of them in agriculture
26 May 2014
6.9k
34
178 workers lost 310 days in industrial disputes in the first part of 2014
22 May 2014
4.9k
8
What's Ireland's new favourite car?
9 May 2014
40.4k
83
We're almost as fond of marriage as we were in 1864 (and we're rather less likely to die)
1 May 2014
9.8k
6
Property prices down in March but still 7.8% higher than this time last year
30 Apr 2014
7.4k
20
'Staycations' on the rise with Dublin, Cork and Galway proving most popular
28 Apr 2014
12.7k
42
Factory gate prices fall by 3.1 per cent in March
24 Apr 2014
5.5k
4
Households in just four counties have more disposable income than average
23 Apr 2014
24.5k
54
Almost 27 per cent of us have experienced two or more types of deprivation
16 Apr 2014
8.3k
22
Drinking has gotten dearer in the last year, but walking or getting the bus home is cheaper
10 Apr 2014
11.1k
54
Crime figures show fall in homicides, but rise in kidnappings
28 Mar 2014
4.8k
19
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