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Restructuring Ireland's banks will have to be restructured as part of a financial bail-out and the country's financial sector will 'become significantly smaller' as the result, Brian Cowen, the prime [...]

Bail-out package set to total up to [euro]90bn Finance ministers and IMF back crisis move The debt crisis gripping the eurozone claimed its second victim in six months on Sunday [...]

Lenihan warning over ECB support Ireland's banks will have to be restructured as part of a financial bail-out, the finance minister said on Sunday. Brian Lenihan said the banks cannot [...]

Engineering John Tollerton's grandfather was a riveter's 'catch boy', carrying hot rivets from the furnace to the hull, when the Titanic launched from Harland and Wolff's Belfast slipway on its [...]

The generous benefits enjoyed by Irish civil servants can continue long after their deaths, with their spouses entitled to a half share of their pension after their partner has passed [...]

[euro]15bn spending cuts and tax rises likely Ireland's government is hammering out the final details of an emergency financial programme to stabilise the economy, paving the way for the eurozone's [...]

Sentiment affects corporate accounts Two other banks report cash flight Allied Irish Banks, the second-biggest Irish lender, has become the latest to announce a large financial outflow during the debt [...]

Construction The champagne was flowing but no one could describe the demeanour of Brian Cowen, Ireland's prime minister, as celebratory when he opened Ireland's largest construction project on Friday. After [...]

Ireland As a humiliated Dublin government prepares to succumb to a bail-out, the European blame game has only just begun, write Dave Gardner, Tony Barber and Peter Spiegel Ireland's rugby [...]

Cuts and tax rises of [euro]15bn expected Bail-out to be less than Greece's rescue Ireland's government will set the stage for the eurozone's second national bail-out this year by hammering [...]

French and German officials are pressing Ireland to increase its low corporate tax rate in return for an aid package, setting the stage for a showdown over a policy long [...]

Politics The leftwing Sinn Fein party looks set to be one of the main beneficiaries of Ireland's economic crisis, with an opinion poll on Thursday making it firm favourite to [...]

Rescue team goal to build capital buffers Public finances and tax face shake-up International Monetary Fund and European Union experts are expected to focus on measures to clean up the [...]

Pressure is mounting on Ireland to agree to a joint European Union-International Monetary Fund rescue package, as fresh evidence emerges of fading confidence in the country's banking system. With the [...]

News analysis A key by-election could reduce further the government's slim majority, says John Murray Brown As if Ireland's economic mess was not enough, the European Union-International Monetary Fund mission [...]

News analysis As Dublin tackled toxic assets and capital bases, new problems arose, say Patrick Jenkins and Sharlene Goff The Irish have always been known for their sense of humour. [...]

Liquidity Small businesses' difficulties will have a knock-on effect for tax revenues, writes John Murray Brown As Ireland's debt crisis occupied centre stage in Brussels on Tuesday, back in Dublin [...]

Help for 'peripheral' economies limited Cowen criticised over indecision The European Central Bank has stepped up its calls for swift action by Ireland to restore confidence in its banking system [...]

Ireland Ireland's official frustration has surfaced for the first time after a weekend of media briefings in EU capitals suggested talks between Dublin and European officials on a humiliating financial [...]

GENERAL FINANCIAL Ireland is looking to a key meeting of Chilean regulators this month to lift the threat hanging over its [euro]2,400bn ([pounds sterling]2,035bn) funds industry, which in October was [...]

Electricity News analysis Projects attract investors keen to buy into clean energy, writes John Murray Brown The storm that battered west Ireland last week provided a ready reminder of a [...]

Political response Dublin is struggling to adjust to rising EU pressure to make a request for help, says John Murray Brown In Dublin on Sunday, Irish government ministers were sticking [...]

Sinn Fein leader to quit as UK MP Pledge to oppose 'consensus for cuts' Gerry Adams, the Sinn Fein president, is to seek election to the Irish parliament. He said [...]

Informal talks break up without action Germany denies push for Dublin to take aid Irish officials insisted on Sunday that they did not need fiscal assistance from the European Union, [...]

Fears the eurozone was on the verge of a second debt crisis eased on Friday as the Irish bond market made its biggest gain in six months, sending waves of [...]

Current investors to escape 'haircut' Dublin denies relying on bail-out The Irish bond market saw its biggest gain in six months on Friday, sending relief through European capitals where fear [...]

The Irish bond market achieved its biggest gain in six months, sending waves of relief through European capitals where fears that the eurozone was on the verge of a second [...]

Banks News analysis Markets see the lenders as high-risk, write Sharlene Goff and John Murray Brown Suggestions from the Irish government that the country's troubled banks could attract interest from [...]

BANKS News analysis Foreign buyers unlikely to make bids, say Sharlene Goff and John Murray Brown Suggestions by the Irish government that the country's troubled banks could attract interest from [...]

Is Ireland going to have to tap the EU or IMF for a bail-out? The bond markets are clearly betting on it. The banks, including those appointed by Dublin as [...]

News analysis Many mortgagors will be in negative equity this year, says one expert. John Murray Brown reports John and Patricia Burnett moved back to Ireland in 2000 and bought [...]

Cash-strapped banks join in bond sell-off Country 'close to losing credibility' Ireland's cost of borrowing shot up to its highest level since the launch of the European single currency as [...]

Honohan speaks out on ailing sector Borrowing reached euro-era high Patrick Honohan, Ireland's central bank governor, on Wednesday put a 'For Sale' sign over the country's ailing banks, stressing that [...]

News analysis Confidence falls as spreads hit highs Foreign investors cut bond holdings Economists are questioning the ability of 'peripheral' European economies to stay in the euro without yet another [...]

travel & leisure Christoph Mueller, the chief executive of Aer Lingus, said the Irish airline was on track to achieve its first annual profit for three years, after slashing long- [...]

Reductions twice as savage as forecast Government seeks to calm markets Ireland is facing Budget cuts next month twice as savage as originally envisaged, as the embattled Fianna Fail-led government [...]

Ireland's political and financial crisis deepened as the country's cost of borrowing hit fresh highs. Fears also rose that Dublin would struggle to pass a critical budget to rein back [...]

'If you did a Google search on junctionless transistors you would have had one hit in January this year, and three months later 200,000,' says Jean-Pierre Colinge, a Belgian-born research [...]

Eamon Ryan hardly has to move from his desk to test his policies. 'Look, it's not that windy today. But yesterday afternoon we were generating about a quarter of our [...]

Energy policy New technology has a big role to play in a small grid, writes John Murray Brown Some exciting things are happening in energy policy in Ireland and none [...]

Everyone knows the benefits foreign companies bring to a local economy. But when they close, the footprint left behind is sometimes less obvious. In Galway, 17 years after the Digital [...]

Banking Policymakers face a big challenge in weaning financial institutions off support, says John Murray Brown No sector of the Irish economy has been unscathed by the property crash. But [...]

A credit-fuelled boom has given way to two years of fiscal pain but economic growth remains elusive, writes John Murray Brown Sean O'Driscoll cancelled the company Christmas party in 2007, [...]

Interview Batt O'Keeffe John Murray Brown meets the minister for enterprise, trade and innovation FT: When Ireland last faced a comparable economic crisis in the late 1980s, the opposition parties [...]

Economy John Murray Brown sets the scene for the next critical months According to one of the placards brandished during street protests in Athens this year, 'Greece is not Ireland.' [...]

Banks An Irish property developer has failed in a legal challenge against Dublin's National Asset Management Agency, which if successful would have thrown Ireland's entire bank rescue plan into jeopardy. [...]

Banks An Irish property developer has failed in a legal challenge to Dublin's National Asset Management Agency that could have thrown Ireland's entire bank rescue plan into jeopardy. A ruling [...]

banks Anger over [euro]2bn debt exchange Junior bondholders in threat to deal Anglo Irish Bank has refused to meet its rebel bondholders in spite of a threat from one group [...]

banks No negotiation over exchange offer Move will lead to losses of 80% A test case for how bondholders may be obliged to share the pain of bailing out troubled [...]

A test case for how bondholders may be obliged to share the pain of bailing out troubled banks was set out on Thursday by Ireland's Anglo Irish Bank, in a [...]