This letter presents trends and stylised facts on Irish corporate liquidations. The data show that liquidations in Ireland follow the pattern of the business cycle, with the recent nancial crisis coinciding with a dramatic increase in corporate liquidations. The breakdown of liquidations by both...

This Economic Letter analyses the performance of permanently modified mortgage loans, of which there were some 38,086 in the domestic Irish banks at end-2013. For modified loans with prior default history (18,740), 55 per cent met the modified repayment amount at end-2013, up from 28 per cent in...