Greenland. Somali pirates. Second-hand Nobel Peace Prizes. Just when you think things couldn’t possibly get any stranger, deeper into the rabbit hole we go. The Trump administration continues to breathe fire on the wheat fields of international order, another UK government teeters on the brink of self-collapse, and war rages on two continents. This new reality is difficult to watch, let alone comprehend. And yet Ireland Inc keeps on keeping on. Tax revenues hit a record high of €105.7 billion in 2025, up €8.6 billion or 8.9 per cent on 2024. The majority of this increase came from corporation tax…

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