Former Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger is a member of Ireland's Future of Media Commission. Following the revelations that the paper's media commentator Roy Greenslade was an IRA supporter, is Rusbridger's position untenable?
We watch sport in our atomised reality. This isolation could have brought a collective recognition of our common problems, but in a world fuelled by culture wars, it has instead made us more determined than ever to highlight our differences.
For every €100 you take in via taxes, you have to pay €12.50 before doing anything else. That is an enormous constraint. To repeat: every cent spent paying the interest costs from the decisions of yesterday reduces the room to manoeuvre today.
What happens if the company is in financial difficulty and the directors can’t pay the money over? For an ordinary employee, there are no follow-on consequences. For a proprietary director, the situation can be disastrous. Unless of course, the Revenue are too late.
The irresponsible behaviour of a small number of international travellers has reseeded Ireland with Covid-19 after each lockdown, making stricter border controls unavoidable. But the new quarantine legislation now opens the renewal of the measure to rolling political decisions instead of scientific criteria.
The Anglo bond scandal was not an outlier. If you want to get a sense of the culture that permeates at a high level in Davy, just look at the case of James Haughey or the resignation statements of its bosses Brian McKiernan and Kyran McLaughlin.
Given its history, the FAI needs to tread carefully as it embarks on a potential World Cup bid but there is nothing wrong with having ambition
Davy will be hoping this blows over. Hopefully, it won’t. This is a bona fide scandal. Talk of cultural reform is all well and good, but it is hard to believe and hard to stomach.
President Joe Biden's latest economic stimulus proposals will likely aid economic recovery momentum in the US, but their cumulative $1.9 trillion price tag will create long-lasting and far-reaching trade-offs.
Things do come in threes and the government has three difficult choices: help those in urban, or help those in rural, areas? Help Andrew, or help Barbara? Help towns, or help cities?
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