Michael Noonan

News, analysis and features on former Fine Gael leader and minister for finance Michael Noonan

Ireland’s young people are leaving as they are no longer proud to call this country home

Official Ireland preaches tolerance and multiculturalism while staying a monoculture and ensuring asylum seekers are sent only to our poorest neighbourhoods

Hugh Wallace: We have a real chance to alleviate Ireland’s desperate housing needs. This is how we can do it

We have more than 160,000 vacant properties across the island of Ireland, in various states of repair, but all ready to be refurbished and reoccupied

Fine Gael used Uber text in 2016 election manifesto, US firm claimed in leaked files

Files reveal American cab-hailing company’s intensive efforts to sway FG ministers and top officials to back rule changes in face of opposition from State’s taxi regulator

The Uber Files timeline: How the company lobbied the Irish government to approve its business model

Between 2014 and 2017 the cab-hailing company engaged in intensive but ultimately unsuccessful efforts to seek regulatory change to permit it to operate in Ireland

Caveat: Donohoe boxes clever this time round on tourism’s special 9% VAT rate

Dragging out debate around restoring the higher rate would be a mistake – either leave it as it is or be decisive about the timeline

‘Quality of life between Samoa and Ireland is drastically different’

Michael Noonan couldn’t afford to leave home in Dún Laoghaire. Now he has his own place

Crowdfunding: will Central Bank oversight help or hinder sector?

Experts hope it will help Ireland catch up with UK – but the model will always be risky

How property investors are set to save more than €500m in tax

Some investors have saved more than €2m due to CGT waiver introduced during crash

Donohoe cap on salary tax relief ‘likely cause’ of €4.2m saving

SARP scheme introduced to bring ‘skilled’ executives to State to boost job creation

Donohoe will be singing a different tune on Tuesday

For the first time in five budget speeches, he won’t be defending the 12.5% rate of corporation tax

If orange was the new black, then 15% is the new 12.5%

Higher corporate tax rate will not have material effects on inward investment

Repeated failings identified in management of the care of ‘Grace’

Commission finds woman placed in care despite criminal convictions of foster parents

Paschal Donohoe plans bank levy extension but lower haul

Move comes as lenders Ulster Bank and KBC Bank Ireland retreat from the market

20 years on: How The Irish Times covered the events of September 11th, 2001

Newspaper’s US correspondent was an eyewitness to the full horrors of 9/11

Taoiseach quizzed at IBRC loan write-offs inquiry by Denis O’Brien legal team

Micheál Martin appeared before commission to discuss 2015 private meeting with then senior Department of Finance official

Noonan testifies at inquiry into loan write-offs at IBRC

Former minister for finance asked about department’s relationship with State bank

Give me a crash course in... bulk buying of housing

So-called cuckoo funds are snapping up houses and pushing first-time buyers out

Government still wants funds in housing market but not at any price

Ministers and officials wary of chasing away source of funding needed for new projects

Miriam Lord: Government in a flap about the cuckoo in the property nest

A nasty ‘variant’ of Greed-09 has swooped through an entire housing estate in Kildare

How do you cope when your family doubles in size overnight?

Irish ‘kinship carers’ say they have long struggled to get the back-up offered to foster parents

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