The week ahead in business: Enterprise Ireland to release yearly results and Europe’s low-cost airlines publish figures

The results will provide some insight into how Irish-owned exporters performed in overseas markets during a period marked by global uncertainty due to the trade policies adopted by US president Donald Trump.

The results will be announced at a briefing hosted at the Dublin offices of software firm Origina, which is set to announce an expansion and job creation as part of the choreographed event.

Ministers including Peter Burke and Alan Dillon are due to attend, alongside Enterprise Ireland chief executive Jenny Melia.

There is a slew of airline results across the week, starting today as Ryanair publishes figures for the third quarter of its financial year, which falls in the fourth quarter of the calendar year.

The update will include details of passenger volumes, fares and operating costs over the winter period as well as commentary on demand heading into the summer season. Analysts have been predicting that the airline’s average fare price will have increased in that quarter.

On Thursday, Ryanair’s low-cost rival Wizz Air will release its third-quarter figures. EasyJet will also publish first-quarter results for its financial year.

As all three airlines compete heavily on European short-haul routes, the trio of results will allow investors and consumers to compare performance across passenger numbers, pricing strategies and cost.

Across the five days of this week we will also see several releases from the Central Statistics Office (CSO). On Wednesday, it will publish retail sales figures for November and December, offering an insight into how much households spent, and on what, during the Christmas shopping period.

Thursday brings figures on new dwelling completions for the final quarter of 2025, providing an update on the number of newly built homes delivered in those three months. This means we will also get a figure for the total completions in 2025, which are expected to be well ahead of the 30,300 delivered in 2024, but still well behind the target that the Government previously set, and well short of the underlying demand.

On Friday, the CSO will publish its flash estimate of the Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices for January, which provides the first reading on inflation this year. Although it is provisional data, the estimate gives a first indication of whether price pressures are easing or persisting as we settle into 2026.

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