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HMRC has been accused of "misleading" taxpayers and treating them like "fools" after it emerged that waiting times for its helpline are up to twice as long as it claims.more

Restaurant owners are defending a new policy to ask diners for deposits. Their association - the Restaurants Association of Ireland - wants it introduced to cut down on the number of no-shows - who book but don't turn up.more

More than 370 vacant houses and apartments have been bought using a €70 million fund established a year and a half ago to provide 1,600 homes for social housing by 2020. The Housing Agency was allocated €70 million in July 2016 under the Government's Rebuilding Ireland housing action plan to buy vacant houses for tenants on social housing waiting lists.more

The 5p charge on plastic carrier bags is set to be extended to all shops. The levy, which has been incredibly successful in decreasing the use of carrier bags, is just one part of the government's plans to tackle the 'throwaway culture'.more

IT was a dream start to the New Year for shop manager Piotr Kotwa who scooped 250,000 euro on the National Lottery's Millionaire Raffle on New Year's Eve - after buying the lucky ticket in his own store. Cavan-based Piotr Kotwa is originally from Gdansk in Poland but living in Ireland for almost 12 years.more

The Irish economy has moved beyond the recovery phase and into a period of "strong and sustainable growth" with expansion forecast to reach 4.2 per cent in 2018, according to the employers' group, Ibec. In its latest quarterly economic outlook, it adds that the "net wealth position" of households has never been better.more

In 2017, there was 25% more consumer bankruptcy files than in 2016 and as much as 162 percent more than in 2015. According to experts, it is still not enough - "Puls Biznesu" reports.more

Nearly a quarter of all British shoppers have admitted to stealing items from supermarkets by smuggling them through self-service checkouts. A study has found that in total, the great British public is behind the theft of around £3.2billion worth of goods every year.more

Two lucky people have won hundreds of millions of dollars in America. On Saturday, in the Powerball lottery someone won the main prize of 570 million, and the day before in Mega - 450 million. more

Aldi in Ireland has announced it will pay its staff the living wage. The supermarket today announced that staff would be paid a minimum of 11.70 EUR an hour, the figure suggested by the Living Wage Technical Group.more

Nearly 1.5 million people at the end of 2016 received a minimum wage, or PLN 1850 gross; it was about 13 percent the total number of people employed under a contract of employment - according to GUS data.more

Ladbrokes, Easyjet and Virgin Money are among the major companies to reveal gender pay gaps of more than 15% in favour of men for mean hourly pay.more

MPs have proposed charging consumers an additional 25p for disposable coffee cups, with the revenue paying for improved recycling facilities. The "latte levy" would be part of push to ensure all disposable coffee cups are recycled by 2023, the Environmental Audit Committee said.more

McDonald's workers have been praised for winning a pay rise after staging the first UK strikes in the company's history. The fast-food chain is introducing new pay rates which will see some staff aged over 25 paid up to £10-an-hour.more

Parents will be fined £120 and taken to court if their child is late more than 10 times in a term, a county schools board has revealed. more

In Poland the most expensive apartments were purchased in 2017 in Warsaw, and the cheapest ones in Nowa Sól and Piekary Śląskie.more

Wages in Poland are constantly going up. Nevertheless, there are regions where people earn less than 2 thousand PLN.more

A man who contacted the Department of Social Welfare in order to "make amends" for falsely claiming over 136,000 EUR in welfare payments has been jailed. Judge Martin Nolan sentenced David Aminu (42) to two years imprisonment for using his cousin's name to fraudulently claim various benefits for seven years.more

Meghan Markle's three bedroom Toronto home rented while filming TV drama Suits is up for sale. The detached two-storey house, in the middle class neighbourhood of Seaton Village, has been put on the market for a whopping £811,000.more

An electrician who looted three tanning salons on Christmas Eve in Northern Ireland claims he was seeking money for unpaid work, a court has heard. Polish national Grzegorz Szawica, 35, raided studios in Belfast and Newtownabbey, taking £450 (€506) in cash and a number of gift cards.more

The Christmas spending hangover means that Britons who splurged on plastic will start 2018 owing an average of more than £450 on their credit cards - with many fearful the debt will still be haunting them by next Christmas.more

Lily O'Brien's chocolate and dessert manufacturer has been bought by a Polish company for €40 million. The Kildare-based company has sold by the Carlyle Cardinal Ireland Fund to Polish group Colian Holding SA.more

British troops in Afghanistan have reportedly only been given £1 a head for Christmas celebrations by defence chiefs.more

According to Eurostat data, GDP per capita expressed in Purchasing Power Standards (PPS) in Poland amounted to 68 percent of the EU average in 2016, unchanged compared with 2015. The lowest pps in the bloc was in Bulgaria (49 percent) followed by Romania (58 percent), while the highest was in Luxembourg (258 percent) and Ireland (183 percent).more

A 28-year-old man who lost his job two months ago is set for an unforgettable Christmas after he won €100,000 on a scratch card. The Romanian national came to Ireland to find work six years ago but lost his job in October and is now unemployed.more