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Even by Ireland’s record-breaking tax revenue standards, this year’s record is staggering. The Government has one year left to turn this gold mine into housing and infrastructure.

As Tennessee voters inch leftward and Trump lashes out at immigrants, allies and adversaries alike, Washington is consumed by economic alarm, foreign-policy fog and a restless MAGA base.

The Government's acceleration plan includes radical reforms in the legal area. While it shows ambition, some law experts have raised concerns about its impact on access to justice and the new proposals may face their own legal challenges.

The slowdown is not yet pointing to a recession. But why run both a security and political risk when there is no need to run either?

The Taoiseach targets business simplification, “a bigger budget”, and enlargement during Ireland’s leadership of the Council of the EU in the second half of next year. He has a Brussels ally in party colleague and Commissioner Michael McGrath.

It is long past time that a full-time defence minister be appointed and the government prioritises what is the first duty of all governments – securing the state and its citizens.

If a balance in policy between pro-enterprise and pro-redistribution is to be maintained, those who believe in that balance, and the pro-enterprise part of it in particular, will need to up their game in the years ahead.  

From Mary Robinson’s “light in the window” to Catherine Connolly’s quiet momentum, political analyst Gary Murphy traces how each presidential race reflects the country’s changing sense of itself — and why, in 2025, the reflection feels unusually stark.

Budget 2026 swaps short-term giveaways for long-term investment. The challenge now is whether fiscal restraint can hold in a system used to overspending.

Garret Fitzgerald spoke of Charles Haughey’s ‘flawed pedigree’, but the two men shaped modern Ireland. Eoin O’Malley talks to Dion Fanning about the era when the two men dominated Irish life.