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Comments allegedly made this week by Boris Johnson were a callous dismissal of the lives lost to Covid-19, but other failings could bring down the UK's prime minister.

Following the resignation of a former housing minister, Dublin Bay South voters will set the stage for a housing election – pitting wealth against income.

Brothers Michael and Danny Healy-Rae, the millionaire independent Kerry TDs, regularly make headlines with their contracting companies and investment properties. But how do they run their business – and how well?

Hazel Chu’s decision to run for the upcoming Seanad by-election, despite fervently believing the votes aren’t there for her to win, has been the latest thing to send the Green Party into a frenzy. Chu spoke to The Currency about why she ran, her future with the party and the issues within it.

Since the start of the pandemic, the US Federal debt has ballooned. To implement many of the new administration’s longer-term objectives, Congress will have to find trillions in new spending capacity. And they will have to do this against all political odds and market sentiment.

When a politician gifted his ministerial pension to the state in the aftermath of the crisis, he claimed two corresponding tax benefits in a series of exchanges involving the finance minister, his department and Revenue. They were all wrong.

After a move from Brooklyn to rural Maine, writer Siobhán Brett shares perspectives on the US election from a town where two votes separated Joe Biden from Donald Trump at Friday's latest ballot count.

Irrespective of who wins on Tuesday, there is the compelling sense that the US has reached a moment of denouement. When the votes are cast, what America will we inherit?

Michael McGrath has just co-authored an unprecedented €17.75bn budget package. Now, he wants to ensure he gets value for the money. Here, he explains how, and also discusses the new business supports for business, Brexit trade talks and the impact of the new Covid-19 restrictions.

Much delayed legislation introduced by the Government on Wednesday will apply to Ireland the carbon budgeting world standard developed by the UK since 2008. It may not ban petrol cars as promised, but its ambition is much bigger: regulate the collaboration between scientific experts and politicians in solving their greatest challenge for the next 30 years.