Ireland will now have the third highest hospitality VAT rate in Europe.

It’s expected to reduce the average cost of installation from nine thousand to eight thousand euro.

Mr Waldron added the Government needs to support hotels with bed supply over the next two years.

VAT rates on electricity and gas have been cut.

It's among new measures which will come before cabinet ministers tomorrow.

A Monaghan publican says he is filled with "despair" and warns that Government inaction could "kill the traditional Irish pub and put it into extinction".

A local beauty salon owner says it's 'hugely disappointing' that the industry was excluded from the VAT reduction for hairdressers yesterday. Anna Costello who

Ministers have been outlining the details of the largest budget in the history of the state. There's been a large focus on Covid, Brexit,