The unthinking way Beacon chief executive Michael Cullen doled out state-owned vaccines to private school teachers raises questions for its board. While the scandal is different from the one that played out at Davy, the discrepancy between actions and consequences is glaring.
Some columns are exercises in whataboutery. This column is an exercise in whatifery. Corporation tax receipts here are supposed to fall in the coming years. What if they rise?
Everyone wants to be the hero of their own stories. They want to take action, make canny moves, avoid danger, seize opportunities. This urge gets stronger the more time people spend thinking and reading about investing. But it gets people in trouble.
Polarising, overpriced and ultimately boring: A view of the billionaire space race from someone immersed in space launches, satellites, space law, space venture capital, space financing, space ethics and general space shenanigans.
As Newton discovered to his cost, the future is necessarily unknowable. But stock investors today should ponder whether they are speeding dangerously close to the vehicle in front.
Brandon Lewis's plan for an amnesty on Troubles-related crimes may force us to look at our own flaws and contradictions on legacy issues, writes Tommie Gorman
There is no stopping an international agreement to increase the corporate tax take from those multinationals that have benefited most from globalisation, including by locating in Ireland. This leaves a lot of room where tax attractiveness can be more useful.
The last 70 years have been about bringing jobs here. The next 70 have to be about creating jobs here. Everything, from our tax policy to our further and higher education systems, needs to change to meet that goal.
After three days in front of a High Court jury, the judge decided that Michael Reilly’s defamation case had come to an end as the article was 100% accurate. The fact that it reached the court says much about the system.
When companies focus on maximising returns for shareholders, when they buy back stock instead of investing in R&D, they benefit society too.
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