Ireland needs to invest billions in infrastructure. Most of the benefits will go to landowners and developers. But there's a way to make developers foot the bill.
It is only a matter of time until the energy supply constraint is fixed through investment but a significant question remains: Is it strategic for Ireland to be home to so many data centres?
The four things the state must do if its to regain the ability to do very hard things.
People keep moving to the city. Unless we relax the plans and start building sprawling car-dependent suburbs, making bold up-front investments in commuter rail is the only game in town.
The world runs on competition. But it's not necessarily the best way to deliver complex capital projects.
A new study says civil servants matter to infrastructure projects. When the state is investing billions on infrastructure, competent officials are a good investment.
The economic benefits of a bigger population are greater than the simple addition of taxpayers. A bigger country would be more stable, richer and cheaper.
Now that there’s plenty of money available, the clamour for the state to splash out on infrastructure immediately is louder than ever. This is the worst time to do it, says Ibec’s chief economist.
There are growing numbers in rural Ireland with the emigrating instincts a young Séan Donoghue had in Manorhamilton in the 1950s. The test of the emerging Ireland is to provide the services and the opportunities that allow them to remain at home.
The former owner of Beauparc Utilities is in discussions with the promoters of a direct jet fuel link between Dublin’s port and airport. Here is the background of the proposed project.
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