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Ireland to create new sovereign wealth fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2023
The Irish government will establish the Future Ireland Fund to help meet costs of the future, including those posed by its ageing population, and is targeting €100 billion by the mid-2030s. Announced as part of the country's 2024 budget package, finance ...

Fossil fuelled Ireland to divest for climate change

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2018
... July 12 lawmakers in the nation's Dail Eireann - the lower house of parliament - passed a bill requiring the Irish government to sell off any interests in coal, oil, gas and peat held via its $14 billion sovereign development fund, the Ireland Strategic ...

AMP Capital partners for Irish healthcare assets

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2017
... Healthcare. So far, Valley Healthcare has acquired two existing centres in Wicklow and Mayo on 25-year leases from the Irish government. "AMP Capital is delighted to develop this unique partnership with Glencar on behalf of the Irish Infrastructure Fund," ...

Irish sovereign fund stamps out tobacco

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 DEC 2016
... strategy to sell its legacy investments, the €8 billion ($11 billion) sovereign fund's decision aligns with the Irish Government's commitment to tobacco control. Acknowledging the move by ISIF, minister for finance Michael Noonan said: "I welcome the ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2011
... "collapse" like Greece if it does not adopt harsh austerity measures. Dublin stocks added 1.72 per cent as the Irish government began rolling out a 3.8-billion-euro austerity budget this afternoon. HONG KONG - Hong Kong shares gained 0.73 per cent following ...

You can't handle the truth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2011
... banks that failed last year's stress test, none were Irish banks. We know now that only a few months later the Irish government went on a nationalising spree of several of its banks. So why is the EBA again stretching the truth? Either the EBA knows ...

Confidence will return to Ireland: Govt

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
The Irish Government's four-year financial recovery plan is designed to restore confidence and create more jobs, according to the minister for enterprise, trade and innovation, Batt O'Keeffe. The plan underpins the work of the job creation and research ...

Ireland gives in to EU bailout

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2010
The Irish government has finally caved into the pressure and requested assistance from the European Union and IMF to solve its fiscal crisis and enable it to prop up its ailing banks. The Guardian newspaper reported that Ireland would receive a,-70 ...

When Irish eyes are frowning

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... has resurfaced and reared its ugly head again in recent trading sessions. Markets are now convinced that the Irish government doesn't have the capacity to bail its banks out, while calls from German officials for investors to share some of the burden ...

Whac-a-mole 2.0

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... admitting that it has a problem. It's got enough to survive until the middle of next year, thank you very much! The Irish government remains adamant in refusing a bail out despite the European Union (and the IMF) practically shoving bail out money down ...
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