Ireland’s pursuit of the America’s Cup now requires leadership of vision and imagination
September 18, 2021 5:23 amIn or around 1994, I sat with then Minister for Tourism, Charlie McCreevy and the CEO of professional golf’s European... View Article
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Tommie Gorman: Why Michael D Higgins said no and what it means for Ireland’s shared history
September 18, 2021 5:08 amIn 1921 Éamon De Valera sent Arthur Griffith, Michael Collins, Robert Barton, Eamonn Duggan and George Gavan Duffy to the negotiations... View Article
The best outcome for Manchester United this season will be if Ole Gunnar Solskjaer becomes an irrelevance
September 18, 2021 5:06 amAt the end of August, Ole Gunnar Solskjaer gave an interview to mark his debut for Manchester United 25 years... View Article
Institutional money will turbo-charge global property markets. What does that mean for Ireland?
September 17, 2021 4:25 amIrish readers can be forgiven for wanting to avoid reading about the vagaries of the property market. The Irish government’s... View Article
Climate, China and how Covid shook the world economy: When Stephen Kinsella met Adam Tooze
September 16, 2021 5:16 amThere are always a few candidates for ‘best public intellectual’, and candidate lists always reflect the priors of the selectors.... View Article
Sean Keyes on investing: listen to what the market is telling you
September 15, 2021 5:11 amMarkets’ reputation took a big hit after 2008. Before then, markets were the go-to solution for everything from climate change... View Article
Practical matters of housing policy are downstream of a bigger question: how will we live together?
September 14, 2021 5:46 amFor centuries, we have asked the question that is now both ancient and urgent: how will we live together? This... View Article
Amazon, Ireland, and the future of retail: To fix Ireland’s multinational bias, we must first acknowledge that it exists
September 13, 2021 12:55 pmLast week, Karen Frawley, a tax partner with Deloitte and the new president of the Irish Taxation Institute, warned that... View Article
Meat factories and dealing with the bull
September 13, 2021 5:39 amThe irony of the occasion was not lost on me last week when the publishing of a year-long investigation into... View Article
Stephen Kenny can’t solve Irish football’s problems. No Ireland manager can
September 11, 2021 5:45 amIn 2004, the newly appointed Liverpool manager Rafael Benitez flew to Portugal to meet two players who would be central... View Article
