Irish players are getting penalised for actions that have been coached into them – deliberate, trained behaviours that are all about pushing boundaries. The problem is that referees now have their number.
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 majority of television watched in Ireland is imported, mostly from the UK. Public clamour for indigenous programming doesn’t match the private choices made in Irish homes.
The chancellor’s budget manages to create £22bn (€25.1bn) in desperately needed fiscal headroom as tax rises look to reduce the public finances' reliance on debt in the long term. But the question of growth still looms large.
The high-risk stall in data-centre development raises deeper questions about how the national grid procures electricity, how green it is, and when it is available for use.
France is broke but can double the size of the Paris metro, while cash-rich Ireland faces another judicial review in Dublin. Are there any lessons to be learned?
Chancellor Rachel Reeves is set to ditch her plans to increase income taxes but, should November's budget do little to kickstart Britain's stagnant economy, it may force a rethink.
Part two of the candidate sentiment survey examines hybrid working, employee expectations and the balance of power between employees and employers
The job of a party leader is to galvanise the troops. The job of a finance minister is to put them on rations. Simon Harris will now have to marry these competing demands.
From a hand-painted sign on a quiet Maine island to rumblings inside the Republican Party, the call to “release the files” has morphed into an unexpectedly potent rallying cry — one that’s starting to show just how strained Trump’s second term already feels.
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