What has made the RTÉ payments debacle a national scandal is not the amounts at stake. It is the explosive cocktail of obfuscation and funds that are ultimately owned by and owed to the public.
The immediate issue, serious as it is, should not be allowed to distract from the decades-long neglect of all governments to ever properly establish a form of public-service media appropriate to the needs of contemporary Ireland.
The search is not for dividends, but for sustainable dividends. The strikingly positive evolution of dividend sustainability in Japan over the past three-plus years argues strongly for paying increased attention to this oft-neglected market.
Over a 20-year period, we have gone from laggard, well below the OECD average, to falling and stagnant to now well below where we need to be, which is finding South Korean levels of researcher employment. What happens next?
Harry Markowitz has been credited for everything from the invention of index funds (which save investors anywhere from $150-250 billion in fees per year) to the Global Financial Crisis (estimated total cost: more than $2,000 billion).
Young people need tailored help to get a business off the ground. This is why the demise of Ireland’s Best Young Entrepreneur competition and the precarious position Young Enterprise NI now finds itself in is so disconcerting.
If we are asking individuals to manage trade-offs, and we are asking the Government with a big G to manage trade-offs, are we asking too much of our elected representatives to manage trade-offs?
The pandemic understandably squeezed the number of second-hand homes listed for sale. But why has the market not recovered since?
There is no sport that can compare to football when it has the excitement showcased last weekend. What has happened this year will shape how the competition unfolds next season.
Whether our medium- and long-term future is a shared island, a united Ireland or the current, disjointed, not-a-sum-of-its-parts Ireland, usage of the stock of hospital sites is a problem in need of serious attention, especially in border counties.
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