{"id":207801,"date":"2025-12-24T01:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T01:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/207801\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T01:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T01:46:12","slug":"the-big-stories-of-2025-the-irish-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/207801\/","title":{"rendered":"The big stories of 2025 \u2013 The Irish Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">For this episode of Inside Business, host Ciar\u00e1n Hancock is joined by a panel of experts to discuss the major stories of 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">A busy year in markets was dominated by US president Donald Trump\u2019s threats to impose huge tariffs on the United States\u2019s trading partners, including Ireland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Ireland\u2019s housing crisis showed no sign of improvement with completions trending well below Government targets.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">And another record-breaking year for corporate tax receipts, coupled with Ireland\u2019s gross domestic product (GDP) growing exceptionally by over 10%, meant that the economy is in rude health as we head into 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">The panel comprises Aidan Donnelly, Head of Global Equities at Davy, Susan Hayes Culleton, Managing Director, HayesCulleton Group, and Cliff Taylor of the Irish Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph free \">Produced by John Casey with JJ Vernon on sound.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For this episode of Inside Business, host Ciar\u00e1n Hancock is joined by a panel of experts to discuss&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":207802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[72,24463,969,113,3662,61,60,1963],"class_list":{"0":"post-207801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-corporation-tax","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-economy","12":"tag-housing-crisis","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-us-tariffs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}