{"id":320395,"date":"2025-12-01T11:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/320395\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T11:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T11:02:10","slug":"ibec-alarmed-at-staff-pensions-plans-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/320395\/","title":{"rendered":"Ibec alarmed at staff pensions plans \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the start date for auto enrolment nears, employers group Ibec is alarmed<\/a> at plans to set minimum contributions on occupational staff pensions. Dominic Coyle has the details. <\/p>\n

After a two-year saga, the future of the Telegraph Media Group may soon be resolved, with the Daily Mail\u2019s \u00a3500 million bid set to create a right wing bloc to rival Rupert Murdoch\u2019s. Mark Paul has the background<\/a> to this tortuous sale process. <\/p>\n

FT columnist Pilita Clark<\/a> has a simple plea: \u201cLeave me alone, AI.\u201d <\/p>\n

The administration in Northern Ireland must first deal with the economic and social failings under its control before any talk of unification can be entertained, writes our columnist John FitzGerald<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In our Q&A<\/a>, a reader wonders if they can appeal if UK tax officials want them to pay more to buy back British pension rights. Dominic Coyle offers a view. If you\u2019d like to read more about the issues that affect your finances try signing up to On the Money<\/a>, the weekly newsletter from our personal finance team, which will be issued every Friday to Irish Times subscribers.<\/p>\n

In Me & My Money<\/a>, Mary Fox, co-writer of season three of Hidden Assets on RT\u00c9 One, tells Tony Clayton-Lea about stepping \u201caway from a lucrative career to start writing. It was my biggest gamble.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tirl\u00e1n-backed Kilkenny Cheese recorded \u20ac196.5 million in revenue last year as cheese production ramped up in its first year of operation at the \u20ac200 million Belview-based cheese factory. Its pretax profits stood at \u20ac5.3 million, according to new accounts<\/a> for the company behind the joint venture between family-owned Dutch dairy producer Royal A-Ware and Tirl\u00e1n. Hugh Dooley reports. <\/p>\n

In our Opinion<\/a> this week, economist Brendan Kearney says food price might moderate in the coming months but they are not going back to the levels before Ukraine war began in early 2022. <\/p>\n

Irish manufacturing<\/a> activity saw strong growth in November with a rebound from the slowest expansion in 10 months the previous month, according to new data. Hugh Dooley has the details. <\/p>\n

AI bubble? Big Short investor Michael Burry\u2019s bold calls often miss the mark, writes Stocktake<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the start date for auto enrolment nears, employers group Ibec is alarmed at plans to set minimum…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320396,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[64,63,99,51941,186,184,185],"class_list":["post-320395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-personal-finance","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-business-today","tag-finance","tag-personal-finance","tag-personalfinance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320395","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320395"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320395\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}