With many reasons to be pessimistic about 2025, and so much general negativity in the western world these days, let me start the year with a wish list: ten things that could plausibly happen in 2025 that this writer believes would make Ireland, Europe and the world a better place. 1. A more pro-business government is formed in January Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael look set to be joined by independents to assemble a coalition in the coming days and weeks. Such a government would represent a move, albeit a small one, towards the political centre, from the firmly left-of-centre…

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