{"id":156267,"date":"2025-11-01T01:01:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/156267\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T01:01:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T01:01:12","slug":"fears-over-ptsb-job-cuts-and-free-bus-fares-in-dublin-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/156267\/","title":{"rendered":"Fears over PTSB job cuts and free bus fares in Dublin \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

PTSB\u2019s move to put itself up for sale has stoked concerns a new owner will cut branches and jobs<\/b><\/a> in the Republic\u2019s least cost-efficient bank. Joe Brenna reports. <\/p>\n

Ireland needs between six and eight more stock market listed home builders if it is to meet the Government\u2019s housing target of 300,000 homes by 2030, the chief executive of the Housing Agency has said. Hugh Dooley has the details<\/b><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Hugh\u2019s extensive interview with Housing Agency CEO Martin Whelan covers a lot of ground around the housing crisis and can be found here<\/b><\/a>. <\/p>\n

In our big read<\/b><\/a>, Joe Brennan looks at how Dermot Desmond, JP McManus and John Magnier pulled off the near \u20ac6 billion sale of the Barchester nursing home group in the UK. <\/p>\n

In his weekly column<\/b><\/a>, Eoin Burke-Kennedy wonders whether free bus fares in Dublin would significantly boost passenger numbers and reduce traffic congestion. <\/p>\n

Motor insurance premiums rose by an average of 9 per cent<\/b><\/a> to \u20ac623 last year, more than four times the rate of inflation in the same period, new figures from the Central Bank of Ireland show. Eoin Burke-Kennedy reports. <\/p>\n

Big Four professional services firm EY grew its island of Ireland revenues by 9 per cent last year to a record \u20ac843 million, its latest annual transparency report shows. Ciar\u00e1n Hancock has the details<\/b><\/a>. <\/p>\n

Public bodies spent \u20ac19 million on Irish language advertising<\/b><\/a> in 2024, a 34 per cent increase from the previous year, according to a yearly audit released by An Coimisin\u00e9ir Teanga. \u00c9anna \u00d3 Caolla\u00ed reports on the data. <\/p>\n

With the ECB leaving interest rates unchanged on Thursday, Cliff Taylor\u2019s Smart Money<\/b><\/a> column examines five vital points borrowers need to consider if taking out a new mortgage, or refinancing an existing one. If you\u2019d like to read more about the issues that affect your finances try signing up to On the Money<\/b><\/a>, the weekly newsletter from our personal finance team, which will be issued every Friday to Irish Times subscribers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PTSB\u2019s move to put itself up for sale has stoked concerns a new owner will cut branches and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156268,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,959,22767,11802,18,16242,91223,19,5389,17,9650,37657],"class_list":{"0":"post-156267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-business-today","10":"tag-central-bank-of-ireland","11":"tag-dublin-bus","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-ey","14":"tag-housing-agency","15":"tag-ie","16":"tag-interest-rates","17":"tag-ireland","18":"tag-mortgages","19":"tag-ptsb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115471744019008422","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156267\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}