A decade and a half after the State rescued AIB during the depths of the financial crisis, the Government is to sell its remaining shares in AIB. Joe Brennan reports on the move.

As EU-US trade talks continue, An Taoiseach Micheal Martin has warned that a breakdown in discussions would have immediate ramifications for the upcoming budget, Taoiseach Micheál Martin has warned. “There’s no doubt that the tariff situation does create a completely different context leading into this budget,” Mr Martin said at the National Economic Dialogue event in Dublin. Eoin Burke-Kennedy was there.

Mortgage lending by credit unions increased by 34 per cent to €632 million in the three months to the end of March compared with the same period last year as consumers increasingly turn to finance buying a home. Colin Gleeson reports.