Electricity prices will fall by some 10 per cent and gas prices will be reduced by 12 per cent from the end of April, it was announced today.
Minster for Energy Eamon Ryan said the Commission for Energy Regulation (CER) had carried out a review of energy prices over the past month after he asked them [...]

Taxi fares are set to become more expensive from midnight, when an 8.3 per cent price increase comes into effect. The rise, which was announced by the regulator in September, will see the cost of hailing a cab rise to €4.10 at the standard rate and €4.45 at the premium rate, which applies from 8pm [...]

FINALLY some good news for hard-pressed motorists – fuel prices are gradually coming down as the price of a barrel of oil falls.
The average price of a litre of petrol is now 129.9c — down 4c from last month — while diesel has also fallen 4c to an average price of 139.9c.
It’s [...]

SHOPPING centres in the North have seen a 40pc surge in shoppers crossing the border to snap up bargains.
Border-hopping consumers are exploiting the fact that branded goods are about a third cheaper in the North. The research also reveals that the average daily spend of €81.11 by southern shoppers is the highest of all day-trippers [...]

FURTHER spending cuts and Budget tax rises are on the cards after a record slump in the public finances.
Yesterday, Government forecasts for the State coffers were thrown into disarray — just a month after they were made — following a huge €780m shortfall in VAT receipts in July.
Total tax revenues are now more than €2bn [...]

The Economic and Social Research Institute has insisted that the Irish economy remains resilient and that it will eventually rebound to grow at about 3.75% per year in the medium term.
The institute warned that there is a danger that Irish society could become transfixed by the ‘very real economic difficulties’ and miss the opportunity to [...]

HOUSE prices plummeted by more than 7pc last year — wiping €24,000 off the value of the average house.
New figures published yesterday reveal the average price of a house nationally has now fallen to around €288,000.
And economists last night warned that house prices would experience an annual drop [...]

Dear god this must be the first price decrease I’ve seen in over 2 years in a country where the cost of living increases daily!.
The Commission for Energy Regulation has approved a 10.5% reduction in the price of gas. This represents a reduction of about €100 in the average annual bill.
Bord Gáis had applied to the [...]

The environmental levy on plastic bags will increase to 22 cent per bag from July 1.
The price increase, which was first announced at the beginning of this year, is the first since the charge was introduced in 2002.
Environment Minister Dick Roche said he was approving the increase so that the impact of the levy would [...]