Dan O’Brien: Ireland needs to buy American gas and guns – in its own interests
January 24, 2025 5:28 amWith the exception of the Second World War, or the Emergency as it was called in Ireland, the external environment... View Article
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The Government rides in on a cliché-ridden list of promises to do a little for everyone
January 22, 2025 5:44 amDuring the general election and throughout the negotiations on the Programme for Government, the advice of independent experts, including the... View Article
Tara Shine: The new government needs to choose between the contradictions of its climate programme
January 21, 2025 6:54 pmThose interested in climate and sustainability commitments in the Programme for Government can breathe a sigh of relief. The government... View Article
Breturn? Brentry? Donald Tusk reminds Labour of one of Britain’s easiest routes to growth
January 21, 2025 5:22 amOn Friday, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk delivered an ode to the United Kingdom. Standing alongside his British counterpart Keir... View Article
John Collins: The new Government has heard tech entrepreneurs’ concerns. Will it take them on board?
January 20, 2025 7:20 pmThe Programme for Government for the new coalition may be attracting criticism for a lack of ambition and detail but... View Article
Ronan Lyons: The surge in housing inflation shows the scale of the challenge ahead
January 20, 2025 5:50 amNew year, old problems, when it comes to housing it seems. Indeed, new government, old problems. Top of its to-do... View Article
Private equity is marching to a town or village near you: Rewinding the week that was
January 19, 2025 5:37 amBrady Insurance is exactly the sort of business that private equity behemoths are salivating to gobble up at present. Based... View Article
The intermingling of politics, business and internet culture has gone hand-in-hand with the trollification of political discourse
January 18, 2025 4:37 amIn the Pierce Brosnan-era James Bond film Tomorrow Never Dies from 1997, Jonathan Pryce plays the megalomaniac villain, Eliot Carver,... View Article
Sam Smyth: Farewell Donnacha Fox, investment broker, man of great integrity and friend
January 17, 2025 5:14 amComing five days after Donnacha Fox’s unexpected death, the invitation to a pre-funeral drink was a first. An explanation in... View Article
Sharper in its process, but not in its scope: the Government’s new approach to infrastructure
January 16, 2025 12:07 pmAlthough infrastructure delivery emerges as a central theme of the new Programme for Government, it takes careful trawling through its... View Article
