Eurozone ministers have agreed to loan Greece €7bn from an EU-wide fund, enabling Greece to pay back arrears to the European Central Bank (ECB).
Without the bridging loan, Greece does not have the money to make a €4.2bn payment to the ECB, which is due on Monday.
Greek banks are now due to reopen on Monday for the first time since June 29th, but withdrawals will initially remain capped at a maximum of €60.
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One in five homeowners could save money by switching mortgage lenders. The Central Bank says 27,000 mortgage holders could save up to €10,000 over the lifetime of their loan.
The findings are based on research of over half a million mortgages, which found that 21 percent of all loans could save money by switching.
However, half of mortgage holders cannot find a cheaper rate, mainly because they are on a tracker.
A third of homeowners could make savings by switching but are not in a position to do so because of arrears or high loan to value ratios.
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The European Commission has issued another warning to the Irish Government over plans to unveil an expansionary budget.
It says that Ireland should use the improvement in the economy to reduce the national debt - not to increase public spending or to cut taxes.
The comments came as part of a review of Ireland's bailout programme. It found that it had been an effective process - and it defended the decision to not burn senior bond holders.
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Sterling is at a seven-year high against the euro, it rallied yesterday after the Bank of England's indication on Wednesday that it is planning an interest rate increase.
It is predicted that the sterling will continue to strengthen today - €1 will currently buy £0.70. Yesterday it briefly dipped as low as 69.63p.
Analysts and investors expect the British interest rate increase to come in May 2016 at the earliest - it is likely that a Fed rate hike will come before then.
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The National Ploughing Association, the company that runs the country’s most popular outdoor event, the National Ploughing Championships, recorded an increase of 20 percent in pre-tax profits for 2014, to €1.2m.
Last year’s profits bring the organisation’s accumulated profits to €12m.
Turnover, which includes gate receipts, exhibitors’ fees and sponsorship rose 13 percent last year to €5.1m.
The Association, which has been directed by Laois woman, Anna May McHugh for more than four decades, paid wages and pension costs of €461,000 for eight employees last year in addition to directors’ remuneration of €210,000.
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Pre-tax profits at the firm who administers the .ie internet domain fell by just under a quarter to €253,462 - even though its revenues increased by 5 percent, to €2.72m.
The firm's report says that there were 71 percent more .ie websites registered in 2014 - with 8,730 sites going online with the official Irish domaine.
Its CEO, David Curtin said: "The registry for the .ie namespace performed exceptionally well in 2014 despite the massive increase in competitive intensity and choice in the marketplace arising from the arrival of 472 alternative domain extensions."
