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The latest press release issued today by Ireland’s premier rated property website, Daft.ie, finds that nationwide demand for homes is up by 17 per cent year on year while the demand for new homes specifically is up a staggering 114 per cent nationally when comparing May 2023 to the same period in 2022.

According to the latest residential market review and outlook from leading property advisors DNG, house prices are set to continue rising this year, following the strong growth in values recorded in 2021. At a national level (excluding Dublin) the DNG National Price Gauge (NPG) recorded an increase in the average price of a second hand home of 13.6 per cent last year, a marked acceleration in the rate of inflation compared to 2020 when prices rose by 1.4 per cent. At the national level (including Dublin) the overall rate of price increase last year stood at 12.0 per cent. The NPG, which tracks house prices across the country on a half yearly basis, recorded growth of 5.3 per cent in the six months to December 2021, compared to an increase of 7.9 per cent in the first six months of last year.

As Revenue pushes ahead with plans to modernise Ireland’s PAYE system early next year, a new survey from online accountancy software firm, Big Red Cloud, has found that confidence in the benefits of the changes to Ireland’s small business sector is wavering.

The latest Daft.ie house price report has indicated that prices in Mayo have risen by six per cent. The report found that house prices in Mayo between October and December 2015 was on average €122,000 which was six per cent higher than in the same period in 2014 and ten per cent higher than prices were at their lowest point.

A public meeting which will see four trade unions urging a no vote to the Croke Park 2 deal will be held at the IT buildling at NUIG tonight.

The Brothers of Charity Services in Galway will be forced to pay €380,000 in salary increments to staff next year despite facing devastating funding cuts of more than €2 million.

As we approach the sixth in what seems to be a never-ending run of austerity budgets the public, despite some spin on the part of the Government and others, just does not sense we are anywhere near emerging from the economic abyss.

For Ireland, membership of the European Union has over the past 38 years provided great opportunities. It opened up new markets to us, made us a more attractive location for international investment, and gave us the chance to create a new set of relationships with our European neighbours, including Germany. Also, great benefits were provided for our people to travel, work and live throughout Europe.

NUI Galway lecturers, Dr Gerard Turley and Maureen Maloney of the J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics, have just completed the fourth edition of the successful textbook Principles of Economics: An Irish Text, with co-author Dr Francis O'Toole of Trinity College Dublin.