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.
The private sector is also more experienced when it comes to innovation – such as faster and more efficient payment systems, and value-added services. It is not entirely clear that this role is best served by a central bank.
We've made a promising start to the world of remote work, but there's a long way to go yet. Here are Leo Varadkar and Gareth Lambe's views on five of the biggest issues.
Fionn Davenport takes a journey round the golf tournament that means more than all the others and why so many- including a Holocaust survivor - believed it represented everything that is democratic about sport.
There have been many quiet heroes on the way to peace on this island. A driver called Brian O'Driscoll was one. Now Ireland needs diplomats to bring commonsense.
As yet another international meeting opens to try and hammer out a deal on multinational taxation, high-tech US giants continue to boost Ireland’s corporation tax take. How would this change under proposed new rules?
At a recent Tax Appeals Commission hearing, a taxpayer successfully argued that the bank he had borrowed from should be made pay his €1.6m capital gains tax bill. So what happened and how did the taxpayer win?
ESG investing is making the world a better place. But the claim that ESG is good for returns is fundamentally dishonest.
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