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Wednesday 25 November 2020
The 410,000 people in receipt of the weekly €20 allowance will be given the allowance for an extra week.
Nine Departments and agencies needed extra top-ups to their funding in 2012. Here’s where the overflow went.
On the day of Budget 2013, Joan Burton asks an Oireachtas committee to approve a 5.1 per cent increase for 2012.
The company operated Cullen’s last two Renault dealerships and is believed to owe him €19.5 million.
The letter states that, despite ‘many uncertainties’, the date of 2020 remains achievable.
Labour isn’t happy in Government and Fianna Fáil merely snipe, writes Aaron McKenna. Why shouldn’t our two historically opposed parties get together?
The nine stories you need to know as you start your day.
While consumer confidence is on the increase, Retail Excellence Ireland warns that spending continues to fall.
In its 16 months in office the coalition has by-and-large worked together solidly but will it last all the way until the next general election?
The next Stability Programme Update is due out next Monday – but Michael Noonan remains insistent that we’ll meet our targets.
The Social Welfare Bill being brought to the Dáil proposes to send single parents onto the dole when their youngest child turns 7.
The Irish Sports Council must continue to tighten its belt for the foreseeable future with a further €1.5million reduction on their budget.
The Irish Fiscal Advisory Council says the Budget’s projections for economic growth may have been too ambitious.
Chancellor George Osborne has also raised the thresholds for income tax and child benefit, as well as hiking excise on cigarettes.
Irish universities fell out of the top 100 institutions rankings today but, writes Stephen Donnelly TD, without a bold, ambitious vision from Government they’ll never get back into them.
The government promised to cut public sector numbers, increase accountability and improve performance. What’s happened?
Cork South West TD Noel Harrington has shared his Budget 2012 analysis with TheJournal.ie.
5 minutes, 5 stories, 5 o’clock.
The SPARK (Single Parents Acting for the Rights of Kids) group took to the streets against cuts to allowances and schemes.
TDs vote in favour of the last part of the 2012 Budget, though there is still time for amendments to be made to the Bill.
The Tánaiste told a US audience that budgetary measures had come “at a considerable cost to the Irish people”.
Susan McKay said Budget cuts to Women’s Council funding had made it impossible for her to do her job properly.
Cllr Declan Hurley said institutions making up the “backbone” of rural communities were now all under threat.
In tonight’s fix: A bad day for jobs, a good day for the government – and for some primary teachers, and which important group want help from JobBridge interns?
Education minister Ruairí Quinn says he will seek a report on the Budget’s impact on teaching posts in disadvantaged schools.
From 1 February, it will now cost you €55 to have your car deemed road-worthy (or not).
The Department of Finance says lenders have been told to apply mortgage interest relief with effect from January 1st.
Around 700 people have already paid the charge, which came into effect on 1 January, according to the Household Charge Project Board.
From yesterday, former taoisigh are no longer entitled to claim expenses for secretarial work and mobile phones from the state.
TheJournal.ie’s writers have each picked one thing that they are glad to see the back of – and one thing they are looking forward to this year.
A number of the measures outlined in the Budget 2012 will kick in today – we take a look at what they are.
The New Year is just days away but are you looking forward to it?
Retail Excellence Ireland says companies have brought forward planned redundancies before the government cuts redundancy rates.
Four of the 31 Garda stations that will close next year have had refurbishment works carried out on them in the past 12 months.
The government is expediting the process to determine what will eventually replace the already controversial household charge.
The Government is keeping us hooked on house buying exactly when it should be weaning us off, writes Ronan Lyons.
Satisfaction with the Government has nosedived by ten points in the wake of the Budget, the Sunday Times/Behaviour and Attitudes poll shows.
People who boycott the annual payment – including several TDs – could see it taken directly from their paychecks or benefits, the Government has confirmed.
The Sinn Féin TD has said that anyone who doesn’t pay the charge should be mindful of legal and financial consequences.
There are now 14 TDs in total who will not pay the €100 charge when it comes into effect in the New Year.
WELL, after over two months, tonight is the night. The Great British Bake Off 2020 final.
This has been a unique series, with the cast and crew forming a Covid-19 ‘bubble’ in a hotel for six weeks to record the episodes.
Tonight’s episode will see the three finalists battle it off in the tent before a winner is announced.
So, today we want to know… Will you watch the Great British Bake Off final tonight?
Poll Results:
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