PTSB seeks to shut down tracker case amid sale and what Ireland’s Mercosur vote really means

It’s getting on seven years since the Central Bank of Ireland published its final report into the tracker mortgage scandal, but the issue continues to rear its head. As Joe Brennan reports, PTSB is seeking have a tracker mortgage case struck out by the High Court next week, after settling a wave of related litigation – including with the financial services ombudsman – before putting itself up for sale in late 2025. It is among a small number of dormant tracker cases that PTSB has been seeking to employ a landmark 2025 Supreme Court judgment to bring to an end.

The EU has signed off on the Mercosur trade agreement, so what did the Irish government’s decision to vote against it really achieve? In his column, John McManus outlines why the vote has only served to underline the decline in the influence of the agriculture sector on the Ireland of 2026.

Looking to borrow more or switch mortgage providers? It’s not always worthwhile, but as competition heats up in the sector, Joanne Hunt outlines your options in Money Matters.

Irish exports to Iran amounted to just under €5.7 million for the first 10 months of last year and remain a very small component of the State’s overall export trade, figures from the Central Statistics Office (CSO) show, as Trump threatens fresh tariffs on Iran. Eoin Burke-Kennedy reports.

The National Treasury Management Agency (NTMA) has hired a group of banks and brokerages to sell about €4 billion of bonds, which would mark its largest fundraising deal since the height of the Covid-19 pandemic. The so-called syndicated bond sale of bonds is expected to take place today, according to market sources. Joe has the story.

The Land Development Agency (LDA) claimed it should not be hit with a derelict site levy on a property because it was a “State authority”, and a master plan was in place to redevelop it. Ken Foxe has the details.

The price of a pint of Guinness will climb by around 20 cent within weeks after Diageo rolled out an increase that will take effect early next month. Conor Pope has the news.

The Irish arm of US property giant, Kennedy Wilson (KW) has secured planning permission for a nine storey “world-class mixed-use office led campus” at St Stephen’s Green that will have the capacity to accommodate more than 3,000 office workers. Gordon Deegan has the plans.

In Commercial Property Ronald Quinlan reports that the UK’s largest urban logistics property developer and asset manager has completed the purchase, for more than €60 million, of an industrial portfolio comprising a range of assets at two of Dublin’s foremost industrial parks. Ronald also has details of how car rental giant Hertz has acquired a new base for its Irish operations.

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