John Looby: Lemass, Varadkar and the need to rethink the national balance sheet
October 22, 2019 5:35 amFamously, the Taoiseach has a portrait of his predecessor, Sean Lemass, hanging in his office. On the surface, this seems... View Article
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Ian Kehoe: “Sean Quinn’s perpetual revisionism and victimhood is a gross disservice to his legacy and locality“
October 21, 2019 6:20 amAnd so, it ends with a whimper and not a bang. After years of incessant, unapologetic agitation and revisionism, Sean... View Article
Tom McGurk: The pathogen of Brexit has infected British politics but been defining for Ireland. The DUP should be very afraid.
October 18, 2019 6:29 amSo once again we have the sight of the last surrendering Japanese World War Two soldier, finally wandering out of... View Article
Boris is the puer aeternus of politics, and it dominates both his leadership style and his history with women
October 17, 2019 5:49 amDoes Boris Johnson have a woman problem? Well just right now, it appears he doesn’t. In fact, he appears to... View Article
Stephen Kinsella: “Carbon tax is a sticking plaster. We need to change our system of production“
October 17, 2019 5:48 amGreta Thunberg has the world’s ear. The 16-year-old is saying the same thing, repeatedly: “Listen to scientists”. Thunberg is maddening... View Article
Tony Spollen: The auditor who shook the system
October 17, 2019 5:48 amIn August 2012 the late Tony Spollen published a book called 50 Great Lessons from Life. In fifty short chapters,... View Article
Innovating Ireland: Ireland can win game of drones in the next 20 years
October 16, 2019 5:59 amIn my last article, I criticised Project Ireland 2040 for a lack of specific vision, which includes commercialisation of emerging... View Article
War on three fronts needed to make agri-food climate-friendly
October 15, 2019 5:26 amAn invitation by the Northern Ireland Institute of Agricultural Science to speak at a talk on climate change and agriculture... View Article
Constantin Gurdgiev: Corporate bond markets are primed for a blowout
October 15, 2019 5:24 amFrom the US Fed to the ECB and the Bank of Japan, central bankers and their macro prudential risk analysts... View Article
People who don’t believe in protecting intellectual property are the business equivalent of climate-change deniers
October 14, 2019 5:50 amYou say paytent, I say pahtent And when it comes to the merits of the costly and arduous exercise of... View Article
