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“It’s not going away”: Dick Spring on immigration, unity, and Ireland

The former Labour leader speaks about the need for a cross-party political forum to decide Ireland's approach to immigration, why now is not the time for a border poll, and how relieving the housing crisis can drive national pride.
Michael Cogley
21st Nov, 2025 - 7 min read

Unpaid wages, frozen funds, and a liquidation move: Inside Digisure’s financial unraveling

Several former staff of Digisure (Ireland) Ltd took workplace relations cases against the company over unpaid wages. The fintech had pledged to backpay wages as held-up funds were released to the company.
Niall Sargent
21st Nov, 2025 - 3 min read

“We weren’t adventurous enough”: Robert Troy on building out Ireland’s retail investment sector

In London, the financial services minister spoke of the need tackle the barriers to entry to retail investment like the deemed disposal rule. He also praised the reset relations with Britain and lamented the loss of department colleague Paschal Donohoe.
Michael Cogley
20th Nov, 2025 - 6 min read

From start-up exits to Tara Street: The unlikely new CEO of The Irish Times

Garry Moroney has scaled and sold multiple technology companies. Now, in a bold move, The Irish Times has turned to the 58-year-old entrepreneur to lead the organisation. Who is Moroney, and what can be expected from him?
T. Lyons and A. English
20th Nov, 2025 - 15 min read

O’Brien defamation case: Alleged intention was to make media report appear “toxic”

The jury is set to begin its deliberations on Friday in the defamation suit brought by two solicitors against the businessman and his PR advisor James Morrissey.
Francesca Comyn
20th Nov, 2025 - 3 min read

Pay more, get more: Martin’s economic priorities for EU presidency

The Taoiseach targets business simplification, “a bigger budget”, and enlargement during Ireland’s leadership of the Council of the EU in the second half of next year. He has a Brussels ally in party colleague and Commissioner Michael McGrath.
Thomas Hubert
20th Nov, 2025 - 5 min read

Kate Barton on tariffs, tech and Dentons’ ambition to double its Irish operation

Kate Barton is the global chief executive of the law firm Dentons, which has a growing presence in Ireland. She talks about her Irish links, plans to double in size in Dublin, and running a firm of 12,000 people.

Tom Lyons
20th Nov, 2025 - 5 min read

Jeff Leo accused of concealing Ipas centre stake in two-day grilling

Under cross-examination, the US businessman denied "hoodwinking" US poultry farm owner Mary Wenning around her Irish property interests or of concealing his part-ownership of the Ipas centre at Dundrum House.
Francesca Comyn
19th Nov, 2025 - 4 min read

“Morgan McSweeney has a bleak political analysis that everyone in Britain is racist”

Dion Fanning
15th Nov, 2025

What is the future for the BBC in a UK which is lurching further rightwards? In this podcast UK political commentator Peter Oborne talks to Dion Fanning about why the BBC is under an existential threat and how it is part of a broader attack on British institutions.

Top Voices

The shadows return: Why the next crisis may already be funded

Fifteen years on, banks may seem safer, but risk has slipped into the shadows. Mike Aynsley warns that the next financial crisis could already be funded — with Ireland at the heart of a fragile global system.
Mike Aynsley
20th Nov, 2025 - 7 min read

A farmer, a file, and a fight: A portrait of enforcement, one lodgement at a time

It started with a farmer, three bank accounts and a steady stream of unexplained lodgements. It ended in the High Court, where the files told a story no one else would.
Ian Kehoe
19th Nov, 2025 - 4 min read

Paschal Donohoe is moving on. Ireland will need to show it can move on without him

Paschal Donohoe was a key proponent of the centre during a time of division and a Christian Democrat who presided over a massive increase in the size of the State. But to understand his policies and his personality, you have to look to Apple.
Ian Kehoe
18th Nov, 2025 - 6 min read

Ronan Lyons: A housing plan that starts behind and stays behind

The Government’s latest five-year blueprint sets big targets but misunderstands the scale of the deficit, overestimates what builders can deliver and all but forgets the rental sector.
Ronan Lyons
18th Nov, 2025 - 6 min read

Candidate sentiment survey: Part one – salaries, workloads and trade-offs

More than 1,600 candidates, from junior management to C-suite level, completed The Panel's Candidate Sentiment Survey. In part one of the findings, we ask if workers are willing to take lower salaries in return for more flexibility, more free time and more perks.

Paul McArdle
17th Nov, 2025 - 4 min read

The story that took 25 interviews to tell: Rewinding the week that was

Alan English has just joined The Currency after a career in newspapers, and next week he will share a three-part investigation — the untold inside story of the boom, bubble and bust that reshaped Ireland’s local media.

Alan English
16th Nov, 2025 - 3 min read

Decline by numbers: What the data reveals about Ireland’s rugby regression

Andy Farrell's Ireland pride themselves on evidence-based decision-making, but right now the numbers are showing clearly that they're well off the level they attained in 2023. The big question is: are they willing to confront what the data is telling them?
Brett Igoe
15th Nov, 2025 - 6 min read

Ireland’s victory against Portugal can only be explained by accepting there are things we can’t explain

Ireland’s shock win over Portugal offered more than a route to World Cup qualification — it delivered a rare, cathartic night when belief returned, however briefly, to a team and its long-suffering supporters.
Dion Fanning
15th Nov, 2025 - 5 min read

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