Taxing times: How much is too little? 

To be worth $1 trillion, Nvidia will have to grow at an extraordinary rate for the next five years – while charging much more than its peers.

The IBRC Commission conducted just another investigation that took too long, cost too much, and was not fit for purpose – according to the judge who led it. Elsewhere this week, we covered striking insolvency cases, interviewed Anthony Scaramucci and named the three largest corporate taxpayers in Ireland.

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.

Touted as the largest wind up in the history of the state, the multi-billion euro assets of GTLK Europe are in reality far more nebulous. The liquidators have an upward battle to recover for bondholders.

The political system wants and needs things done now to satisfy the media and maintain its legitimacy with the public. The administrative system needs things to be implementable and built out over a longer time horizon. 

For Nvidia to be worth $1 trillion, some amazing things must be true.

So far in this series I’ve outlined the things that the government needs to do. But in reality the consequences of a rapidly changing world and a slow-to-adjust economy will fall onto individual shoulders. Yours and mine.

Awash with windfall corporate tax receipts, finance minister Michael McGrath recently presented a “scoping paper” on a future sovereign wealth fund to cabinet. From offshore markets to management fees, here are some suggestions for how it should operate.

The series also highlights, in highly emotional terms, the distance between the world of ideals and the reality of administrative structures and processes – and how deadly this distance may be for those excluded.

Fresh from triumphant local elections in the north, Sinn Féin's long march towards full-on power and responsibility is nearly complete. How the party negotiates this new territory will have consequences, writes Tommie Gorman.