{"id":5051,"date":"2025-09-07T04:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-07T04:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/5051\/"},"modified":"2025-09-07T04:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-07T04:59:08","slug":"richard-curran-the-cost-of-running-ireland-inc-is-up-60pc-in-six-years-we-cant-afford-an-economic-slowdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/5051\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Curran: The cost of running Ireland Inc is up 60pc in six years \u2013 we can\u2019t afford an economic slowdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe. Photo: Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/d7eda118-74dc-454d-bfcf-34232ea58648.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe. Photo: Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">With everyone so obsessed about whether \u201cPaschal\u2019s billions\u201d from corporation tax will keep rolling in, it is easy to overlook what\u2019s happening elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">One worrying figure that came through during the week was in services jobs. According to AIB\u2019s purchasing managers\u2019 index, job numbers actually shrank in August in four sub-\u00adcategories of the services sector, for the first time since 2020.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Finance Minister Paschal Donohoe. Photo: Getty With everyone so obsessed about whether \u201cPaschal\u2019s billions\u201d from corporation tax will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[5168,5244,969,61,60,43,774,5914,4162,5066,812],"class_list":{"0":"post-5051","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ireland","8":"tag-budget","9":"tag-budget-2026","10":"tag-donald-trump","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-news","14":"tag-paschal-donohoe","15":"tag-richard-curran","16":"tag-tariffs","17":"tag-tax","18":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051","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=5051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}