Dalata is a litmus test for the broader Irish economy: Rewinding the week that was

Low interest rates and wealthy investors are driving a boom in pub prices. Will there still be room for the little guy?

The key to getting rich slowly is to harness the long-term power of compounding. A stock investor who eschews trading, never goes short, never uses leverage, and ignores noise can credibly hope to generate an average annual long-term return of 7%.

There’s a lot of nonsense talked about central banks. From an investor’s perspective, there are only two ways central banks can get in your way.

For better or worse, Dublin is becoming the San Francisco of Europe. We should learn from that city’s mistakes.

The DTIF is meant to help develop disruptive R&D and bring it to the market. But Irish start ups — ie, the companies most in need of this help – are being left behind. Is there still time to reinvent the fund?

The struggled between Sinn Féin and Fianna Fáil is the longest running family row in Irish politics, but now one party looks like triumphing after a long and complicated journey.

Kerry need to be willing to learn from their defeat to Tyrone and they need to be willing to learn the right lessons.

Imagine if 40% of your workforce hit the road in the next few months. What would you need to do to keep your remaining workforce and attract new hires? Even more importantly, what will happen to wages and inflation if the Great Resignation comes to pass?

There's a top of the market feel to the whole SPAC thing: companies frantically flogging their shares to eager investors, with minimal scrutiny, based on big forecasts of future growth. As the SPAC bubble bursts, should we be worried about the wider market?

Subscription arrears at the Bar of Ireland are at their highest since 2010, the depths of the last recession. The impact of Covid belies deeper anxieties about the future of the profession, writes Legal Editor Francesca Comyn.