Hit by changing consumer trends and market dynamics, the indigenous retail sector was already stressed prior to Covid-19. The pandemic has made a bad situation worse. And the government is acutely aware of the problems that this will pose to consumer confidence.
Bill Barrett, who was buried last week, was a key player in building Anglo Irish Bank until his retirement in 2002. Many are in his debt for his assistance at crucial times in their business lives.
Changing working and consumption patterns will hit commercial property badly, while the lack of purchasing power for first time buyers will dampen the residential market. I have picked my way through the data, and the leading indicators are not good.
Building on the ruins of the FAI, a new approach inspired by the ill-fated transfer of Wimbledon FC to Dublin and the success of Leinster Rugby could bring Irish players back to the forefront of the world’s most popular game – and lift all boats for clubs around the country.
For Ireland, beyond the immediate challenges of the pandemic and the ‘July stimulus’, our most significant policy goal should be winning the case with our EU partners for splitting the capital budget from the current budget, and funding the former with tailored, long-term debt.
When ‘change management’ first started to enter the business vernacular in the nineties, I don’t think the executives discussing it ever thought there could be quite THIS much change to manage.
The imbalance in lay litigants squaring up to lawyered up financial institutions has been described by High Court judge Max Barrett as “perhaps the greatest injustice perpetrated by our currently creaking court-administered system of justice". They are fighting words but do they help debtors?
Stephen Kinsella looks at the Apple judgment on a few levels. First, the tax and legal levels. Second, the fiscal level, and third, at the level of our long term industrial strategy, which the Commission’s decision did so much to expose.
From the rise of on-demand grocery deliveries to the diversification of routes to market, the food industry has been radically altered as a result of the pandemic. So, what lessons can the industry take from the changing market?
Whatever the outcome of the Apple case in the coming days, it is high time for having a serious think about the future of industrial and investment policy in the years to come. And one of focus for the government should the agri-tech space.
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