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“Ambitious” or “amorphous”? Budget 2027 staves off protest but fails to inspire

While the budget offered enough to middle Ireland to forestall protest, it lacked ambition and let down the poorest in society, according to the crowd at Buswell’s Hotel.
Alice Chambers
6th Oct, 2026 - 4 min read

The €9bn question: Will Budget 2027 transform Ireland’s housing supply?

With record capital investment, social housing supports, and expanded moves on infrastructure, the Government is making a major fiscal gamble to unlock supply and curb the housing crisis. Will it pay off?
Niall Sargent
6th Oct, 2026 - 7 min read

The president’s budget: How Ireland’s tax-and-spend record compares to its EU neighbours’

The Government faces another health overrun and promises income tax cuts in the budget. But where do these numbers rank among European peers’ for each man, woman, and child?
Thomas Hubert
6th Oct, 2026 - 5 min read

Lighting the way: Davy breakaway Lanthorn turning healthy profit

The new business from veteran dealmaker David Goddard manages a €1.7bn investment portfolio of hotels, shopping centres, and office and retail space. Its first filing shows things are moving in the right direction.
Niall Sargent
6th Oct, 2026 - 3 min read

European airlines line up against the Irish Aviation Authority, and Ryanair

European airlines including KLM, Air France, and Lufthansa have gone to the High Court claiming Ryanair is in breach of EU ownership rules, and that the Irish watchdog has done nothing about it.
Francesca Comyn
5th Oct, 2026 - 3 min read

How to keep your estate plan from tearing your family apart

It’s often the stuff you haven’t even thought of that can create the biggest divisions, writes Jonathan I. Shenkman, The Wall Street Journal.
The Wall Street Journal.
5th Oct, 2026 - 3 min read

The $100m dispute hanging over Ireland’s exit from an outdated energy treaty

Ireland is preparing to defend a large-scale investment row taken by oil and gas firm Lansdowne Resources under an international treaty that Ireland and others have opted to leave.
Jonathan Keane
5th Oct, 2026 - 4 min read

“A real anticlimax”: How crossed wires between Government and industry sent interest tax reform back to the drawing board

We already know much of what will be in the budget. What won’t be, however, is a delayed reform of Ireland’s tax regime for corporate debt interest.
Thomas Hubert
5th Oct, 2026 - 15 min read

“There definitely was a sense of doublethink among some voters around the issue of the housing crisis, which didn’t become apparent until Mary Lou had given that exact figure of €300,000”

Dion Fanning
3rd Oct, 2026

Siobhán Fenton went to work for Sinn Féin hoping to make a difference when they achieved power in the south. Instead, from 2020 to 2024, the party moved further from power. She talks to Dion Fanning about how and why it all went wrong.

Top Voices

€2.60 in every €100: Inside Irish retail’s margin crisis

Retail sales have held up, but profits are being squeezed by higher wages, energy and other costs, with insolvencies rising sharply ahead of Budget 2027.
Stuart Fitzgerald
6th Oct, 2026 - 8 min read

Colm McCarthy: Cassandra, Hopium and the warning from Ireland’s last great tax bonanza 

Ireland can afford to spend more today. The harder question is whether it will retain enough firepower for the next downturn.

Colm McCarthy
5th Oct, 2026 - 5 min read

The energy transition is back – but who gets priority? Rewinding the week that was

The Taoiseach's interest in indigenous, renewable gas as an alternative to imported fossil fuels is real. But his interest in powering Intel's latest multi-billion-euro investment yielded more funding, faster.
Thomas Hubert
4th Oct, 2026 - 5 min read

Anne Harris: The two Charleses and the ghost of Diana 

Charles Spencer’s Swan Song has reopened the bitter divisions between Diana’s family and the Windsors, raising fresh questions about what happened after her death – and whether the British royals learn anything.

Anne Harris
3rd Oct, 2026 - 7 min read

Dan O’Brien: The Government has spent years raising the tax burden. Now it should start cutting it

The public is paying more tax, the state is spending more money and businesses are increasingly frustrated. Budget 2027 should be about broadening the tax base and lowering rates.
Dan O'Brien
2nd Oct, 2026 - 5 min read

Are there early warning signs of another tech “correction” heading into Budget week?

As multinationals trim workforces and IDA and Enterprise Ireland early warning reports increase, is a structural shift happening in plain sight? And what would it mean for our tax take and future budgets?
Niall Sargent
1st Oct, 2026 - 4 min read

“We do see risks for workers’ protection”: MEPs prepare a fight back against McGrath’s EU Inc

Commissioner Michael McGrath is championing EU Inc, a new framework to help companies scale, but MEPs have reservations about what it will mean for worker representation.
Jonathan Keane
29th Sep, 2026 - 4 min read

What the Navy, a Tipperary farm, and losing a child taught Marie Gleeson about leadership

The executive coach and former naval officer argues that leadership is about far more than rank or authority – and that people often underestimate the effect their behaviour has on those around them.
Paul McArdle
28th Sep, 2026 - 7 min read

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