Tony Ryan’s legacy and Ireland’s crown jewel: Rewinding the week that was

Global research shows that tackling farming practices, diets and food waste at the same time is the only way to achieve meaningful cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

The markets are continuing to ignore the build up of the new debt bubble. Trouble is looming.

Experience has thought me that IP is an asset worth protecting for every entrepreneur – not just tech giants or songwriters.

Paschal Donohoe created a clear juxtaposition between his decision to rein in institutional investor profits (and stymy a tax move by Green Reit) and his support for small Irish business though a €1.2bn Brexit package and an overhaul of several schemes.

For businesses, Tuesday’s budget means higher energy taxes, tightening criteria to access green incentives and a slow roll-out of support schemes for renewables.

Budget 2020 was both weird and strange. A tentpole policy you don’t want to see used. A recognition of the fiscal prodigal that is Health. A suite of inherently prudent measures, and a raft of other small things that might not get used at all. But it was also the budget we needed.

Budget 2020 is rightly being framed against the backdrop of Brexit. But the global economic mood music is increasingly depressed and there is little the government can do about it.

In contrast to their bond brethren, stock investors have continued to be compensated by attractive income flows in return for risking their capital.

Brexit is forcing us to deal with multiple paradoxes at the same time. A phenomenon which can only harm us when it happens is actually helping us before it hits, as it calms our economy down.

Ag-tech entrepreneur Aidan Connolly looks to the Irish start-up scene for answers to the questions facing cattle farming and beef processing.