Michael Noonan

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

Government agreed to pay Michael Noonan legal costs for libel case over alleged IRA money

Businessmen sued for defamation over then-minister’s statement, claiming it was for legitimate pork export business

Sat Dec 28 2024 - 00:00

Who is Jack Chambers? Nobody knows but we’re about to find out

The new Minister must use the pre-election budget to perform an interconnected series of balances

Fri Jul 05 2024 - 06:00

From crisis-era mandarin to State’s first directly-elected mayor, who is John Moran?

The former lawyer, banker and at one time the State’s most recognisable civil servant has been elected the country’s first directly-elected mayor in Limerick

Tue Jun 11 2024 - 19:06

John Moran changes his tune on lobbying as he runs for Limerick mayor

Web Summit’s Lobbying Register absence; why Simon Harris won’t lodge in the Phoenix Park; and more bad news for EV drivers

Sun Apr 07 2024 - 06:00

Department of Finance’s split personality relies on personal relations

Splitting the finance function of Government into two departments runs the risk of discordant budgetary policy

Fri Dec 22 2023 - 05:00

Apple’s €13bn Irish tax case timeline

40-year saga of how a valued foreign investment unravelled

Thu Nov 09 2023 - 13:00

NTMA spends €37bn mopping up legacy of notorious IBRC promissory notes

State keen to close the door on the last of the debt used to prop up Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide whose failure triggered the financial crisis

Fri Jul 07 2023 - 15:32

Do politicians have it in for RTÉ, or does RTÉ have it in for politicians?

Analysis: The next steps in the secret payments drama will be determined by politics. That can’t be good news for RTÉ, whose co-dependent relationship with Government is always strained

Wed Jun 28 2023 - 06:33

The €13bn Apple Tax case is entering its final chapter. Here’s what you need to know

European Commission’s last-ditch effort to make Apple pay the Republic more than €13 billion of alleged back taxes came before EU’s highest court this week

Fri May 26 2023 - 05:14

Government should expand controversial executive tax break, accountants say

Report calls for longer tax break covering more staff and including accommodation costs in move to boost Republic’s lucrative aircraft leasing business

Wed Apr 12 2023 - 05:00

Republic to bid for EU anti-money laundering agency

State to compete with nine others seeking to host new authority

Tue Mar 28 2023 - 19:53

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

Fri Feb 17 2023 - 05:00

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

Thu Sept 15 2022 - 05:00

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

Mon Jul 11 2022 - 07:09

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

Mon Jul 11 2022 - 05:00

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

Fri May 13 2022 - 05:06

‘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

Mon May 09 2022 - 00:00

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

Fri Jan 28 2022 - 05:04

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

Wed Jan 12 2022 - 06:00

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

Tue Jan 04 2022 - 05:00

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

Sat Oct 09 2021 - 06:39

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

Thu Oct 07 2021 - 19:10

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

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

Fri Oct 01 2021 - 20:56

Paschal Donohoe plans bank levy extension but lower haul

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

Wed Sept 22 2021 - 05:37

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

Fri Sept 10 2021 - 18:35

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

Fri May 21 2021 - 19:23

Noonan testifies at inquiry into loan write-offs at IBRC

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

Mon May 17 2021 - 21:56

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

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

Sat May 08 2021 - 06:00

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

Thu May 06 2021 - 18:00

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

Wed May 05 2021 - 22:36

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

Tue Dec 22 2020 - 06:01

We continue to ignore massive pensions elephant in the room

The national debt is likely to go up by more than €40 billion within next two years

Mon Nov 23 2020 - 05:15

‘You don’t want to be running your economy and society for bond investors’

Ireland should prepare for a recession or crisis every decade, says NTMA chief

Sat Nov 21 2020 - 05:39

Paddy Terry – civil servant who made an immense contribution to justice policy, administration and law reform

An Appreciation

Sun Oct 18 2020 - 18:01