The year of the doughnut city: how the pandemic is changing settlement patterns

Our society is deeply angry about one thing: the generational unfairness associated with housing. The government has announced a new recovery plan. Will it deal with that anger and aid the recovery?

Private developers and investors are viewed with suspicion in the housing debate. What role do private investors and developers play? And how is the property market likely to develop in the next ten years?

I have chaired Mainstream Renewable Power and I have known Eddie O’Connor for decades. His comments on Africa were inaccurate and offensive. But it is important to try to understand the nature of the man himself.

The latest wave of nostalgia for the Manchester United of old won't do Ole Gunnar Solskjaer any favours.

Dominic Cummings' evidence to a House of Commons inquiry revealed that Boris Johnson is almost uniquely ill suited to being prime minister.

Commentators are starting to fret that inflation is finally here. But a careful reading of the data suggests that we're looking at a short term spike, rather than a prolonged rise.

Nowhere in Irish life is the gap wider between diagnosis and potential cure than housing. Housing is complex, complicated, political, distributional, financial. It is all of these and more. Darragh O’Brien needs a solution to housing that figures out the social physics of it.

Central banks, spooked by the rise of cryptocurrencies, are scrambling to release digital currencies of their own. But central bank-issued digital money will have few of the benefits of cryptocurrencies, and some important drawbacks.

Why are the p/e multiples of technology companies so high? Where did the value factor disappear to? And why does the Irish economy grow so fast? All are explained by a change in the way companies invest their money.

Our private equity-backed world has created a modern two-class system: those who interact with the real world, and those who do not, with the latter being seen, strangely, as a privilege.