Housing
The highest rate of inflation was in Cork city, where rents rose by 18% in 12 months. Rents in Galway are 13.9% higher than a year previously, while rents in Limerick have risen 15.5% in the past year. There were just over 3,600 properties available to rent nationwide on 1 August this year, compared to […]
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Figures show that more than 2 million people are now employed in Ireland. The number of people employed in Ireland continues to rise, increasing by 2.9 per cent, or 56,200, in the in the second quarter of the year, bringing the total up to 2,014,900, the Central Statistisc Office said on Tuesday. The figure means […]
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has appointed a church historian as the country’s new science and education minister. On 19 August, the president announced that Olga Vasilyeva would succeed the current science minister, Dmitry Livanov, who will become presidential envoy on trade and economic relations with Ukraine, according to the Russian news agency Interfax. During his