Hostilities, parity of esteem, and the menace of Trumpism: Rewinding the week that was
November 17, 2024 5:15 amA looming election certainly can shift the mood. Just six weeks ago, Thomas and I made our way to the... View Article
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Brett Igoe: Artificial surfaces have brought both opportunities and challenges to sport
November 16, 2024 5:17 amThe “Donnybrook Strand” holds a special place in Irish rugby history, a nickname that perfectly captured the state of Donnybrook’s... View Article
Dan O’Brien: The economics of “woke” and how it could affect the coming general election
November 15, 2024 5:20 amThe word “woke” means different things to different people. Let’s start with what woke is not. Some people use the... View Article
By “reclassifying” spending, the Green Party is claiming an extra €3.5bn of financial space
November 14, 2024 12:35 pmThe Green Party manifesto is everything a manifesto should be, and nothing it should be. Manifestos are collages of ideas.... View Article
Peter Kinsella: what Trump’s second coming says about the political and economic regime
November 14, 2024 5:19 amSince the G& met in June, each of the national leaders has lost power or lost influence in their own... View Article
Candidates regard Apple’s back taxes as secure, but do they realise future ones are not?
November 13, 2024 6:45 pmThe general election campaign predictably opened with a contest between political parties on their plans to spend the corporation tax... View Article
Ian Kehoe: Fianna Fáil is banking on €5.2bn from “efficiencies” and “second-order buoyancy effects”
November 12, 2024 6:50 pmFianna Fáil’s election manifesto, launched on Monday in Dublin, was not lacking in proposals, plans, pledges, or promises. The document,... View Article
Colm McCarthy: We need to talk about water charges
November 12, 2024 5:39 amInadequate national infrastructure has multiple sources, including the halving of the state capital programme in the Troika years following the... View Article
At the Entrepreneur Experience, nobody speaks in acronyms to inflate their sense of self-importance
November 11, 2024 5:50 amHaving spent the first chunk of my working life in the warm embrace of employment, where the shareholders in the... View Article
Ireland, the US, and the certainty of chance: Rewinding the week that was
November 10, 2024 4:57 amEleven years ago, I sent a speculative email to Wilbur Ross asking him to participate in a television documentary I... View Article
