“The figures have to add up”: Start-ups’ budget wish list may have to temper expectations
September 5, 2025 4:24 am“The figures have to add up”, “stable”, “secure”. These were some of the key lines to pluck out of the... View Article
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Colm McCarthy: Sprawl, subsidies, and the MetroLink mirage
September 5, 2025 3:09 amIreland has seen an accelerating urbanisation of economic activity and population for generations. In the 1920s, around half the employed... View Article
Hollow victory: Central Bank retains key role for Israeli bonds approval
September 4, 2025 7:00 amA feeling of victorious jubilation spread fast among Palestinian solidarity activists and on opposition benches on Monday morning as news... View Article
Joe Gill: A seismic aircraft leasing transaction rooted in Ireland
September 4, 2025 1:39 amThe acquisition of New York Stock Exchange-listed Air Lease Corporation (ALC) by an SMBC Aviation-led consortium is a seismic transaction... View Article
Stuart Fitzgerald: Why strategy comes first – even for a small business
September 3, 2025 4:51 amIn my mind’s eye, 18th-century tenant farmers spent their lives wringing chickens’ necks and stepping over tragedies. Running a small... View Article
Thomas Hubert: Inheritance tax should be part of the budget debate again – to hike it
September 2, 2025 5:34 amAs budget day approaches, the perennial debate around inheritance tax resurfaces, this time with the added twist of people without... View Article
Ancient lessons, modern taxes: Why wealth levies may cost more than they raise
September 1, 2025 5:50 am“In times of prosperity, no one is more of a burden to the leader than the elites, and none are... View Article
Tony Ryan’s legacy and Ireland’s crown jewel: Rewinding the week that was
August 31, 2025 5:28 amIreland is a small island on the edge of Europe. We build no aircraft, we have no Boeing, no Airbus,... View Article
Niall Sargent: Purveyor of truth or conveyor belt for propaganda?
August 30, 2025 5:14 amAt just after 10 am on Monday, August 25, standing on a balcony at Nasser Hospital in near 30-degree heat,... View Article
Dan O’Brien: Ireland’s lurch towards pious leftism won’t end well
August 29, 2025 3:16 amMore than 20 years ago, working in London as Europe editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit, I was fortunate enough... View Article
