John Looby: We need to talk about money
June 17, 2026 5:10 amIn the dim and distant mid-1980s, I was a part-time lounge boy. From 5pm to closing time every Thursday to... View Article
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Goldhawk bites the dust: How The Phoenix went from must-read to surviving on past glories
June 16, 2026 12:18 pmAmid the rueful social media posts over the demise of The Phoenix magazine after 43 years there was a recurring... View Article
More family homes than families: Why one tenure can no longer house Ireland
June 16, 2026 5:48 amAsk how many ways a country needs to house its people, and the instinctive answer, in Ireland at least, is... View Article
Candidate sentiment survey: Part one – AI and the workplace
June 15, 2026 5:41 amThe Panel is a recruitment consultancy that places talent at the “C” suite level across all business sectors. Twice a... View Article
Graham Platner shows America that the left-of-centre cannot hold either
June 14, 2026 5:11 amI’m afraid it’s impossible to effectively analogise the stratospheric profile of Maine Democratic United States Senate nominee Graham Platner for... View Article
From knocking on doors to a €6.6bn bid for DCC: Rewinding the week that was
June 14, 2026 4:02 amOn May 1, 1976, Henry Kravis and his cousin, George Roberts, co-founded KKR with their mentor, Jerome Kohlberg, starting with... View Article
Breffni Park told me my Dublin career was over — now it may reveal this team’s truth too
June 13, 2026 5:07 amIn March 2019, I played my last game for Dublin in Breffni Park in Cavan. I wasn’t sure it was... View Article
From Aughinish to Palestine, Ireland faces a hard choice between principles and interests
June 12, 2026 3:11 amWhat is more important for this country: the peace and security of the continent we inhabit, or compliance with international... View Article
John Looby: Burnham and Farage are likely to fail
June 11, 2026 5:49 amAlmost a decade after the Brexit referendum, Britain is still mired in uncertainty. Less than two years since Sir Keir... View Article
With no election in sight, Ifac is picking the right time to resurrect the fiscal rule
June 10, 2026 5:01 am“Extraordinary levels of corporation tax” are becoming so heavily baked into Ireland’s budgetary policy that the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council... View Article
