# michael-mcgrath - Friday 14 May, 2021
# Saga
From The42
# Saga
The Camogie Association’s recent poll to endorse a split season came at a cost for clubs involved in the unfinished 2020 competitions.
# michael-mcgrath - Wednesday 28 April, 2021
# Good Causes
# Good Causes
Charities Institute Ireland raised concerns about Good Causes funding last December.
# michael-mcgrath - Tuesday 6 April, 2021
# Exchequer Returns
# Exchequer Returns
Ireland’s budget deficit increased by nearly €4.2 billion in the first quarter of 2021.
# michael-mcgrath - Sunday 14 March, 2021
# Women In Politics
# Women In Politics
This week saw the government announce Justice Helen McEntee will take six months of paid maternity leave, but the conversation has already turned to bigger questions.
# michael-mcgrath - Tuesday 23 February, 2021
# Public Sector
# Public Sector
The package was ratified at a meeting this morning.
# michael-mcgrath - Tuesday 2 February, 2021
# Michael McGrath
# Michael McGrath
The role of secretary general at the Department of Health has been advertised with a salary of €292,000.
# michael-mcgrath - Tuesday 5 January, 2021
# Money Men
# Money Men
The deficit is compared to a pre-pandemic predicted surplus for the year of €2.5 billion.
# michael-mcgrath - Friday 11 December, 2020
# ICTU
# ICTU
Each of the public service unions will now consider the proposal before putting the package to their members.
# michael-mcgrath - Tuesday 24 November, 2020
# PSSA
# PSSA
The Public Service Stability Agreement expires at the end of the year.
# michael-mcgrath - Wednesday 28 October, 2020
# Cabinet
# Cabinet
Cabinet is expected to discuss the fallout from the controversy over the handling of legislation which was passed last week.
# michael-mcgrath - Wednesday 14 October, 2020
# Budget 2021
# Budget 2021
Sinn Féin has called for vouchers to be given to people to spend in restaurants.
# michael-mcgrath - Tuesday 13 October, 2020
# Budget 2021
# Budget 2021
SUSI grant to be increased for post-graduate students.
# PUP
# PUP
The announcement that those on the PUP in December will receive a Christmas bonus was part of Budget 2021 announced today.
# Budget Day
# Budget Day
How has Covid hit the State coffers so far?
# New Normal
# New Normal
Today the biggest budget in the history of the State will be revealed – here’s what we know.
# michael-mcgrath - Saturday 10 October, 2020
# Budget 2021
# Budget 2021
All will be revealed on Tuesday.
# michael-mcgrath - Sunday 4 October, 2020
# Michael McGrath
# Michael McGrath
The Minister for Public Expenditure and Reform said the government stands ready to act on any fresh NPHET advice.
# michael-mcgrath - Friday 2 October, 2020
# Budget 2021
# Budget 2021
Overall, tax receipts have remained strong despite the Covid-19 pandemic.
# michael-mcgrath - Wednesday 16 September, 2020
# OCTOBER'S BUDGET
# OCTOBER'S BUDGET
Budget 2021 will be no windfall but will target those sectors impacted the most.
# michael-mcgrath - Friday 24 July, 2020
# Memory Lapse
# Memory Lapse
Minister for public expenditure Michael McGrath “didn’t recall” his party, Fianna Fáil, trying to block the same allowances in 2017.
# michael-mcgrath - Thursday 2 July, 2020
# Staycation
# Staycation
Fáilte Ireland is calling for the VAT rate to be changed to 5% to help the tourism sector.
# michael-mcgrath - Wednesday 15 April, 2020
# Policy
# Policy
Fianna Fáil’s Michael McGrath said today there’s “undoubtedly” different opinions in his party on going into coalition with Fine Gael.
# michael-mcgrath - Thursday 9 April, 2020
# Super Sars
From The42
# Super Sars
The Galway and Sarsfields great recently steered his beloved club – and his four daughters – to a first All-Ireland senior camogie title, having done it all as a player himself.
# michael-mcgrath - Monday 2 March, 2020
# Teenage Dream
From The42
# Teenage Dream
19-year-old Siobhán McGrath clinched their first title and ended Slaughtneil’s four-in-a-row bid.
# michael-mcgrath - Tuesday 25 February, 2020
# Family Affair
From The42
# Family Affair
Sarsfields are looking to dethrone the All-Ireland champions Slaughtneil in the senior camogie club decider.
# michael-mcgrath - Monday 8 July, 2019
# Michael McGrath
# Michael McGrath
The Central Bank is to publish its report on the database later this year – but it was meant to have been set up at the end of 2018.
# michael-mcgrath - Tuesday 9 April, 2019
# Housing Crisis
# Housing Crisis
Fianna Fáil’s Michael McGrath described the figure as ‘extraordinarily high’.
# michael-mcgrath - Thursday 20 December, 2018
# Vulture Funds
# Vulture Funds
Unregulated loan owners hold 17% of all mortgages in arrears over 720 days.
# michael-mcgrath - Sunday 9 December, 2018
# Season Of Giving
# Season Of Giving
Under the scheme, charities will receive a refund of their VAT costs based on the level of non-public funding they receive.
# michael-mcgrath - Wednesday 7 November, 2018
# High Court
# High Court
Motorists will receive 100% compensation, totalling €21 million.
# michael-mcgrath - Tuesday 14 August, 2018
# Where's Paschal?
# Where's Paschal?
Questions have been mounting as to where Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe is in the midst of this summer’s vulture fund sell off.
# michael-mcgrath - Wednesday 8 August, 2018
# Sell Off
# Sell Off
The bank has confirmed that performing loans and customers who have engaged will also be sold off.
# michael-mcgrath - Wednesday 1 August, 2018
# Sell Off
# Sell Off
The bank sold its controversial Project Glas loan portfolio to a so-called vulture fund for around €1.3 billion.
# michael-mcgrath - Tuesday 31 July, 2018
# Sell Off
# Sell Off
A total of 7,400 are owner-occupier mortgages, while 3,300 are buy-to-let properties.
# michael-mcgrath - Saturday 17 March, 2018
# Deja Vu
From The42
# Deja Vu
Orlaith McGrath has captained the Galway outfit back to Croke Park where they face Slaughtneil in a repeat of the 2017 decider.
# michael-mcgrath - Tuesday 27 February, 2018
# Mortgage Arrears
# Mortgage Arrears
The Central Bank is to review their code of conduct for how financial institutions deal with those in mortgage arrears.
# michael-mcgrath - Wednesday 21 February, 2018
# Vulture Funds
# Vulture Funds
PTSB, which is 75% State owned, has been defending its plan to sell off a book of non-performing loans.
# michael-mcgrath - Tuesday 20 February, 2018
# Political Battle
# Political Battle
The proposed sell-off has become the subject of a political battle in recent days.
# michael-mcgrath - Saturday 23 December, 2017
# Chronic Pain
# Chronic Pain
Lost income, medical expenses and legal fees have taken a huge toll on her life.
# michael-mcgrath - Thursday 21 December, 2017
# Tracker Mortgage Scandal
# Tracker Mortgage Scandal
13,600 more trackers victims have been added to the growing number – it now stands at 33,7000.
A thunderstorm in spots this afternoon
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Min: 6 °C
Winds gusting past 45 mph; rain at times
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Mostly cloudy with a couple of showers
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