Rory McIlroy won his first silverware in 18 months last weekend. With the PGA beginning on Thursday, Fionn Davenport examines the contradictions of Rory.
Non-essential retail outlets are set to open in the coming days. But just what sort of trading environment will they open to? An analysis of two retail chains at opposite ends of the financial spectrum offers an insight into the future of the high street in a post pandemic world.
Multiple assessments of the Irish economy agree that the long-term issues facing us are intergenerational inequality, firms dealing with technological change, and climate change. Here is how we can tackle them.
Even now, after a mammoth High Court case, practically nothing is known about FBD’s reinsurance policy. Other insurers have been open and transparent. FBD has said surprisingly little. Just what is going on?
Visa is the rare business that ticks all the boxes. It's profitable, capital efficient, and its competitors can't touch it. How did it get so dominant?
An informal suggestion from a leading stockbroker to a minister made it into a formal disclosure: If tax-transparent investment structures were so successful to channel capital into property, why not roll them out to green energy? There is more to it than meets the eye.
Colorado start-up Boom is promising to bring back supersonic travel. To understand if it can succeed, you have to understand why Concorde ultimately failed, and also examine the competing interests of aircraft manufacturers and airlines.
A truly extraordinary set of circumstances over the past year created a spike in prices. But it is very likely to be just that – a temporary spike, rather than a permanent shift. To understand why, you have to look at the core data.
Alan McLoughlin's death was a reminder of how Ireland changed for the better during the Charlton years.
The sale of an entire housing estate in Co Kildare did not happen by accident. It occurred because of policy choices that the Irish state made over the past eight years – choices that have changed the nature of home ownership and distorted the housing market.
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