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Accenture’s Alastair Blair: Snatching opportunity from the jaws of adversity

November 20, 2020 5:27 am Published by Alastair Blair

Covid-19 has plunged Ireland into a return to harsh, but necessary restrictions. The pill is very difficult to swallow as... View Article

November 19, 2020 4:56 am Published by Niamh Hourigan

The Spring lockdown of 2020 was all about emergency. Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil, bruised from a disastrous election and... View Article

November 18, 2020 5:35 am Published by Sean Keyes

Irish people care about property in a way they’ll never care about the stock or bond markets. It’s in the... View Article

November 17, 2020 5:27 am Published by Peter Kinsella

A number of months ago, this column highlighted issues which were emerging in the commercial property market. The main thrust... View Article

November 16, 2020 4:09 am Published by John Looby

Theoretically, there are at least two reasons for interest rates to be positive. First, the need to compensate creditors for... View Article

November 14, 2020 5:00 am Published by Noel Smyth

Had we known last year that Covid-19 would take over most of our waking hours in 2020, we could have... View Article

November 13, 2020 3:10 am Published by Stephen Kinsella

Why is it that we have many, many plans, but our instruments for delivering and monitoring those plans are not... View Article

November 12, 2020 4:04 am Published by Constantin Gurdgiev

Whether or not the Covid-19 pandemic moderates in the foreseeable future, with or without effective vaccine available on the market... View Article

November 11, 2020 5:53 am Published by Francesca Comyn

From afar, it seems so obvious. Justice Seamus Woulfe was supposed to meet with former chief justice Susan Denham, accept... View Article

November 10, 2020 4:39 am Published by Stephen Kinsella

A vaccine exists to combat the virus. The vaccine appears to work. And not just work — the vaccine Pfizer... View Article