Following my column on the restored nine per cent Vat rate, hospitality operators from across the country explained what life now looks like on the ground. Their stories suggest the tax break is no longer about cheaper meals but about keeping viable businesses alive.
Sitting shin-deep like Canute, Andy Burnham has spent his first weeks in power ranting impotently at the tide.
This weekend, Nama is finally being shuttered, 17 years after it was incorporated. Its advocates point to its final financial surplus, while critics look at its role in the housing crisis. How should it be judged?
Every generation had its own explanation for why Mayo couldn't ever quite get over the line at Croke Park. Andy Moran's team ignored them all and wrote an ending few believed was possible.
Before the Oscar, before Once and before international recognition, there was a struggling band, a tiny Dublin café and an unexpected act of kindness that stayed with Tom Lyons for a quarter of a century.
Over lunch in Dublin, Stefan Asple explains why his family's accountancy firm chose an Australian partnership model with Brett Kelly over a private equity buyout.
High-emission products imported this year are creating liabilities under the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism. While the measure levels the playing field for European manufacturers, businesses need to assess its cost in their supply chains.
Despite global fame, an Oscar, and approval from Dylan, Hansard, who has died aged 56, remained at ground zero of political, world-shaking art.
New data points to a likely reduction in refugee accommodation costs this year as a recent tightening in payment policy and rates kicks in but question marks remain over long-term savings.
Anchoring rents to cost and tapering subsidies by income is a design, not a budget line.
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