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.
Despite developing a fierce rivalry over the past 20 years, the Irish and South African teams are reflections of one another than opposites. The question is: who's copying whom?
Fifteen years on, banks may seem safer, but risk has slipped into the shadows. Mike Aynsley warns that the next financial crisis could already be funded — with Ireland at the heart of a fragile global system.
It started with a farmer, three bank accounts and a steady stream of unexplained lodgements. It ended in the High Court, where the files told a story no one else would.
Paschal Donohoe was a key proponent of the centre during a time of division and a Christian Democrat who presided over a massive increase in the size of the State. But to understand his policies and his personality, you have to look to Apple.
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