The review into Ireland’s bail laws following the State apology to the family of Shane O’Farrell is a red herring. Neither the public or the O’Farrell family is any wiser as to what happened and whether steps are being taken to ensure it cannot happen again.
Ireland owes much of its economic revival to the attraction of overseas investment. Our new London-based contributor Byron Fry argues that it must go about protecting it at a time of geopolitical unrest with credible neutrality.
Despite robust first-time buyer demand, new housing supply is slowing and second-hand market turnover remains worryingly flat.
It says a lot about the capacity of our state that it can grasp and grapple with Donald Trump more easily and with more surety than putting bricks on top of other bricks in fields outside of towns and cities.
Despite demanding peak performance from athletes, Irish sport still tolerates underqualified coaches on the sidelines.
A renewed media committee quizzed the broadcaster’s equally refreshed leadership line-up one year on from the Ryan Tubridy-fronted payments controversy, but still ignored the crucial commercial aspect of its model.
The global order built on centuries of economic insight has been upended by a new age of erratic, transactional policy. Investors and allies alike are left navigating a landscape where the rules no longer apply.
Director Maureen Kennelly’s oversight of the agency's failed IT project will likely be raised at the committee on Thursday. Senior department officials should also be quizzed about what they knew and when.
Why is the inclusion of services in the Occupied Territories Bill sending a shiver down the spine of the cabinet? And why would removal of services from the bill be so damaging?
The challenge of finding accommodation for staff is evolving from a major concern expressed in anonymised business surveys into a toxic mix of unhealthy attitudes and practices.
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