Simply put: We have never had more jobs, we have never been paid more, and we are all, somehow, the poorer for it. Employers in some sectors are reaping huge profits, but others are struggling.
There's a danger that, in the rush to alleviate households this winter, we muck up the energy market. We should tread carefully.
The government will now shutter the IBRC Commission rather than make it trawl through 37 other deals. It raises a question of why Enda Kenny and Michael Noonan made the curious and unexplained decision to extend its remit beyond Siteserv in the first place.
Like its predecessors, any new agreement on the North must be built on our complex reality. Above all, the dangerous folly of the binary must be blunted.
While some of the initial allegations were determined to be unfounded, the Commission’s probe into the sale of Siteserv still painted a damning portrait of elements within Irish corporate culture.
Mikhail Gorbachev's death and funeral served to illustrate the differing perceptions of the last leader of the Soviet Union. His biographer William Taubman talks about Gorbachev's legacy, what he could have done differently and getting to know the man who helped end the Cold War.
Investors seeking to make money from this would want to be looking very far upstream in the energy production process. And they'd want to have gotten their bets in very early.
Even if we fix our education system to create superstars, and we make immigration seamless for the world’s best and brightest, and we develop an investment management class akin to Sequoia - nobody can actually afford and nobody actually wants to live here.
We do not have the budget of a Google or a Meta, but we do have great colleagues who are wonderful ambassadors for our business.
Portugal and Italy are a championing personal tax incentives for highly paid and qualified workers. As the battle for talent replaces the quest for the lowest corporation tax rate, this is the foreign investment environment we are now competing in.
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