• The eco-contribution rises from €1.50 to €8 per person per night, capped at €64.
• Short-let apartments pay €10 a night, capped at €80.
• Cruise passengers will pay €10 and Comino visitors €5.
• The Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association calls €8 too sharp, even by European standards.

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• Budget 2027 proposes higher permit fees for non-EU workers.
• A new €400 annual contribution for foreign workers is planned.
• The petition focuses on workers earning €1,200 to €1,600 a month.
• It asks to withdraw the charges or exempt low earners already in Malta.

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• The Maltese eco-contribution for hotel guests goes from €1.50 to €8 a night.
• Catering VAT stays at 18%; the government turned down the call for 7%.
• Wrong fiscal receipts now bring fines of €100 to €500 instead of criminal cases.
• Companies with turnover under €1 million will pay 25% instead of 35% on undistributed profits.
• Work permit fees for non-EU staff go up by €200.

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• Deliveroo's Irish company lifted revenue by 10% to €64.09 million in 2025, and its pre-tax profit rose 37%.
• Tourism Ireland took six Irish firms to Stuttgart, Freiburg and Zürich to win more German and Swiss business for 2027.
• Owners of Ireland's historic houses met in Co Meath to talk about insurance costs, unique stays and food.
• At the golf travel fair in Cannes, 65% to 80% of golf travellers were said to put dining, spa and culture first.

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• The Fitzwilliam Hotel in Dublin made a €1.6 million profit in 2025 after a loss the year before.
• A new hotel sustainability label launches as Ireland's rules on vague green claims take effect.
• Hotels in Kerry and the South West took a big share of the Irish golf tourism awards in Tralee.
• A Dutch tour operator will fly holidaymakers weekly to Kerry Airport from April 2027.
• Malta has approved 220 tourist accommodation projects since 2024, with 5,235 extra rooms.
• Ryanair's boss expects European fares to rise by up to 20% next year, a worry for Malta's tourism.

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• The new 229-bedroom Premier Inn in the Clerys Quarter is for sale at a guide price of €66.6 million.
• The Schoolhouse Hotel in Ballsbridge, with 31 rooms and a gastrobar, seeks €12 million.
• The buildings of the Avoca stores in Kilmacanogue and Rathcoole, with their cafés, are on the market for €29 million.
• Dublin is short about 3,600 hotel beds, and developers are swapping office plans for hotels.
• The Hard Rock Hotel Malta has 400 rooms and more than ten restaurants and bars.
• Malta's prime minister says energy and fuel subsidies will stay.

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• Eimear Killian of Builín Blasta in Spiddal is the new president of the Restaurants Association of Ireland.
• Spiddal holds its first food festival over the October bank holiday weekend, from 23 to 26 October.
• Tourism Ireland held about 500 trade meetings for eleven Irish firms at a travel show in Rimini.
• Bord Bia puts almost €1 million into autumn beef promotion in the UK and Europe.
• Truck protests in southern Italy left fresh food shelves almost bare at a Mosta supermarket.
• The Planning Authority removed illegal paving in front of a Sliema seafront restaurant.

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• An investor wants to knock down an empty Dublin office block on Golden Lane and build a 225-room hotel.
• Irish visitor attractions have a new five-year plan, with staff at 54% of their running costs.
• Fast-food chains fell sharply in an Irish customer experience ranking.
• Food inflation in Malta reached 3.4% in September, mostly because take-aways cost more.
• Malta had the second-highest tourism intensity in the EU in 2025, with 21.7 nights per resident.

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• Robert Abela says an international restaurant brand will invest in Malta with Maltese partners.
• The Budget on 26 October will cut income tax again, and energy and fuel subsidies stay.
• Victoria's mayor wants Gozo to win overnight guests ahead of its 2031 culture year.
• An economist notes tourist arrivals rose 16.5% early this year while spending per visitor fell 1.8%.
• A MaltaToday survey puts population growth and traffic at the top of people's worries.
• Vada, a café in Stoneybatter open for about a year, gets 8.5 out of 10 from the Irish Examiner.

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• Dublin City Council approved a restaurant on O'Connell Street, but it may not sell hot food to take away.
• Afternoon visits to Irish food outlets grew fastest in the second quarter, while mornings fell 3.3%.
• Harcourt Developments expects more than €37 million in turnover this year, about 6% more than last year.
• Maltese caterers and the Nationalist Party again asked for VAT on catering to drop to 7%.
• Planners refused tables and chairs in front of the Ġieżu church in Rabat after more than 180 objections.

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• Inspectors closed twelve Irish food businesses in September, mostly for pests and poor hygiene.
• The EU's top court says Dublin Airport's 32 million passenger cap must count when slots are shared out.
• A Kenmare chef cooks lobster and cheese ravioli live on American TV on Friday, with Tourism Ireland.
• Tourists added more than 90,000 people to Malta's population in August 2025.
• A man who demanded a free meal in St Paul's Bay was fined €2,000.

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• Jack Rice of Comet is Euro-Toques Young Chef of the Year, and Aengus Moloney of Aniar is Rising Pastry Chef.
• During the Ploughing, restaurant card spend in Tullamore rose 44% on last year, while pubs fell 27%.
• The Royal Spa Hotel in Lisdoonvarna is for sale at €1.25 million after 46 years with one family.
• SETU Waterford will host the Knorr Student Chef of the Year final on 4 March 2027.
• Malta's Lands Authority gave Piccolo Padre in Sliema 30 days to clear its tables from a public pavement.

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• McDonald's is testing hand-breaded chicken in some Dublin restaurants from mid-October until February.
• The restaurant sector fell from second to fifth place in an Irish customer experience ranking.
• The WRC ordered a festival caterer to pay a worker €2,321.75 in wages she was still owed.
• A 150-seat restaurant in Howth is for sale with a guide price of €2.8 million.
• Malta International Airport handled 1,109,789 passengers in September, 12% more than a year ago.

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• Ireland's minimum wage goes up 79 cent to €14.94 an hour from 1 January 2027.
• Budget 2027 gives €15 million to rural pubs, while Dublin publicans say it does nothing for them.
• Hospitality insolvencies in Ireland fell 23% in the first nine months of the year, PwC says.
• Malta welcomed 539,655 tourists in August, up 14.7% on a year earlier.
• Malta's budget comes on 26 October; energy subsidies are expected to stay.
• Ta' Victor in Marsaxlokk closes in November, while Buddha-Bar opens in St Julian's on 29 October.

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