Having dealt with Pearse Doherty and his advisors over the past number of years, the parallels with the initial New Labour economic project of Blair and Brown were obvious to me. However, news of the party’s long march to the centre has yet to reach business and investors.
The psychology of the counteroffer is fascinating from both an employee and an employer perspective, and there are several competing factors of play. I have been in the recruitment business for 30 years. This is my playbook for dealing with counteroffers.
Mary Lou McDonald's speech at the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis will be another stepping stone as the party gets ready for power but who will be their junior partners in government if required?
Manchester United are no longer a club run on sound principles, but the talk of tradition and the Manchester United Way should be seen for what it really is: a dependence on superstition.
Paschal Donohoe laments the closure of one his favourite bookshops and insists that collective action must be taken to protect cultural landmarks in Dublin.
OPEC has the ability to raise production levels of oil quite easily, but it seems that political pressure would have to increase massively before this happens. The bottom line is that consumers will have to get used to higher oil prices.
Our corporation tax advantage has been taken from us. In the post-Covid world, we must compete on the production, retention, and importation of talent. Talent is the new tax.
On the face of them, higher inflation and higher wages seem like bad news for investors. But a hot economy with rising wages can benefit everyone.
The Climate Change Advisory Council has laid out what is feasible to cut Ireland’s greenhouse gas emission by half in ten years. It boils down to balancing disruption between the power, transport and heat used by every home and business or the agri-food sector supporting entire rural communities.
Abandoned assets such as the cargo ships, or antiquated assets such as bridges, roads and aircraft, can be managed proactively instead of reactively. The cost savings of this switch is in the trillions of dollars. Investors take note.
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