The country has produced industrial titans and dealmakers. The Collisons have taken a different route, embedding Stripe at the heart of global commerce and thinking in decades, not quarters.
US policies and AI valuations mean economic seas are getting rougher, technological shocks are getting harsher and geopolitics are smashing economic policies’ doors. Welcome to the second year of the new era.
Exchange rates fluctuate. Reserve currency status does not. As allies question American stewardship and rivals seek alternatives, the greenback’s role as the world’s trusted anchor faces its sternest test in half a century.
We’ve never had more food, more data or more advice about how to be healthy — and yet diet-related illness keeps rising. A new wave of anti-obesity drugs and smart technology may finally be changing the balance.
As RTÉ recruits a new CFO, candidates will be faced with the reality that inflation has eroded much of the organisation’s dwindling revenue for the past two decades.
The sustained campaign against Bord Bia’s chair is not really about Brazilian beef or conflicts of interest. It is a wider battle over Mercosur, power and the future direction of Irish agri-food policy.
The stats say Ireland competed. The scoreboard — and the eye test — said otherwise. France’s 36-14 dismantling in Paris exposed an Irish side struggling for identity, cohesion, and conviction.
The mass release of the Epstein files has produced embarrassment, outrage and online blood sport. What it hasn’t produced is clarity.
Change by Degrees, the business co-founded by Tara Shine and Madeleine Murray to help companies and their staff achieve “sustainability as a superpower”, is closing down in the face of green policy roll-backs.
Restaurateurs speak of a complex industry grappling with significantly inflated costs, well-heeled new market entrants, and changing consumer habits. But culinary excellence is still shining through and it's imperative that is supported.
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