{"id":31296,"date":"2025-08-29T18:33:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-29T18:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/31296\/"},"modified":"2025-08-29T18:33:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T18:33:14","slug":"crh-faces-court-challenge-to-ukraine-deal-and-hospitality-industry-nears-crisis-point-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/31296\/","title":{"rendered":"CRH faces court challenge to Ukraine deal and hospitality industry nears crisis point \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ukraine\u2019s supreme court will begin hearing a challenge<\/b><\/a> to Irish giant CRH\u2019s ownership of a cement business in the war-torn country on September 11th. Barry O\u2019Halloran reports. <\/p>\n

First-time buyers (FTBs) are continuing to drive mortgage<\/b><\/a> <\/b>activity in Ireland. Figures from industry lobby group Banking and Payments Federation Ireland show a total of 5,467 mortgages were approved in July with FTBs accounting for 3,356 or 61 per cent of the total. Eoin Burke-Kennedy reports. <\/p>\n

Eoin also reports that the richest<\/b><\/a> 10 per cent of households in the Republic hold almost half the wealth, new figures from the Central Bank show.<\/p>\n

Tech giant Apple looked to develop<\/b><\/a> <\/b>a \u201cconstructive and open dialogue\u201d with the European Commission\u2019s new competition chief, in an attempt to draw a line under years of bitter fighting over its tax arrangements, correspondence shows. Jack Power has the story, and also breaks down where the <\/b>battle lines<\/b><\/a> are being drawn between the US and EU on regulating big tech. <\/p>\n

In his Friday column, Eoin looks at how people having more often leads to working longer<\/b><\/a> <\/b>hours and for more years. It\u2019s become known as the wealth-work paradox and if anything, it\u2019s getting worse. <\/p>\n

The restaurant industry has been grappling<\/b><\/a> <\/b>with higher prices and a slowing in the number of people eating out for some time now. In Agenda, Paul Colgan meets some of the folks at the sharp end of the issue. <\/p>\n

In World of Work, Margaret E Ward looks at what is required to manage a family business<\/b><\/a> without wrecking the family. <\/p>\n

In Smart Money, Cliff Taylor looks at how <\/b>stock markets<\/b><\/a> have been on a tear up to now. But will that last as Trump\u2019s tariffs take effect?<\/p>\n

Dutch private equity firm Waterland has agreed<\/b><\/a> <\/b>to buy a majority stake in Cruinn Diagnostics, a leading independent laboratory equipment supplier in the Republic. Joe Brennan reports. <\/p>\n

A reduction in capital gains tax, the permanent introduction<\/b><\/a> <\/b>of a 9 per cent Vat rate for the hospitality sector and a new State agency to grow indigenous businesses are among some of the measures Azets Ireland want to support small and medium sized companies here. Ciara O\u2019Brien reports. <\/p>\n

Telecommunications company Eir said revenue<\/b><\/a> grew in the second quarter of the year as the company delivered solid financial and operational results. Ciara O\u2019Brien reports. <\/p>\n

An Coimisi\u00fan Plean\u00e1la has ordered the retention <\/b><\/a>of a \u2018fairy tree\u2019 as part of a grant of permission to plans for a new \u20ac64 million 223 unit housing scheme for Rathnew in Co Wicklow. Gordon Deegan has the plans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ukraine\u2019s supreme court will begin hearing a challenge to Irish giant CRH\u2019s ownership of a cement business in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31297,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,24697,18,19,17,24696],"class_list":{"0":"post-31296","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-cyril-byrne","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-mam"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31296","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=31296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31296\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}