The most striking aspects of Budget 2025 are the amount of money allocated, spent, promised, and deployed, and the fact that the Government has left a sum equivalent to the health budget in reserve.
If I was spending the Apple bounty, I would allocate the funds towards the country’s huge infrastructural deficits. But, if we were forced to invest the funds, I would take a highly selective approach towards any equity investments.
The commitment to simplify the Keep scheme for share options has not yielded results. With Budget 2025 imminent, the government needs to make the schemes we have work rather than develop new ones.
This week, to celebrate our fifth birthday, we published a string of major interviews, features, and investigations. When you weave them together, they showcase the type of journalism we aspire to produce, but they also help tell a wider story.
This weekend the manager of The Old Spot Denise McBrien, will lead a chorus line of staff saluting the tenth anniversary of one of my favourite restaurants. Yes, there will be celebrities in attendance. But the local neighbours will be top of the guest list. It is just that sort of place.
Activists and survivors are hopeful for change after the industry largely avoided the accountability that swept Hollywood post #MeToo. But is this the Judgement Day they’re waiting for?
The wheels of the Irish industry have never whirred faster. Yet, there are company and sector-specific risks that threaten Ireland’s economic prosperity, not to mention the potential damage of a Trump presidency. Budget 2025 will have to balance the risks with the opportunities.
The Government has never formally abandoned the Public Spending Code but one could be forgiven for imagining that it has. Every mistake in capital allocation means that, sooner or later, better projects must wait.
On September 25, 2019, we published the first of over 6,000 articles and podcasts to date. Here is what our members say makes us different.
When you look at the data, two clear rental trends emerge. Rents in the open market have risen rapidly for a decade. Secondly, rents for "stayers" are also increasing but at a much slower pace than for those moving.
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