Sam Smyth on Seamus Heaney: Kind, wise, brilliant, but with a devilish sense of humour
September 2, 2023 5:06 amI was with Seamus Heaney on my first visit to Washington just over 30 years ago and it really was... View Article
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Colm McCarthy: Why the plan to spend €50 billion on the railway network is totally off the rails
September 1, 2023 5:00 amThe commitment to ‘balanced regional development’, endorsed in the early paragraphs of every ministerial speech on transport and communications, is... View Article
Stephen Kinsella: Tax breaks for landlords are a terrible idea. This is why
August 31, 2023 5:29 amLandlords are never popular people because they, literally, extract rent. By rent and rent-seeking I mean the outcome that occurs... View Article
Sean Keyes on investing: The future winners and losers of Ireland’s insurance sector
August 30, 2023 3:05 amThe land grab continues apace. Last week, Aston Lark, which has been snapping up Irish insurance and financial brokerages at... View Article
The real O’Connell Street: At least it’s not Grafton Street or the Champs-Élysées
August 30, 2023 2:03 amIf we’ve learned anything from the deluge of commentary on the state of Dublin’s O’Connell Street area in recent weeks... View Article
Ronan Lyons: The infantilisation of adults through (lack of) housing
August 29, 2023 5:31 amPeople like me have become, over the last ten years or so, obsessed with a little-discussed metric that, perhaps more... View Article
There’s a reason why 90% of start-ups fail. My lessons were painful but invaluable
August 28, 2023 3:54 amAccording to Socrates, the Greek philosopher, the secret to happiness is not found in seeking more but in developing the... View Article
Claims and confusion at Ironman, a judge on a mission and Nostra’s big deal: Rewinding the week that was
August 27, 2023 5:52 amBrendan Wall was 45 years old and was described by his employers as a “gentleman”. From Co Meath, he was... View Article
Tommie Gorman: From Glenties to Béal na Bláth and beyond
August 26, 2023 5:04 amIf the walls in the large foyer of the Highlands Hotel in Glenties Co Donegal could talk, they would have... View Article
Francesca Comyn: Why managing judicial resources is like a game of speed chess
August 25, 2023 5:45 amOpponents of the new Court of Appeal back in 2013 claimed it would just add another layer to the justice... View Article
