The twin engines of the Irish economy were sputtering amid lay-offs and contractions. They are firing once again, fuelled by research and technology.
To build 50,000 homes per year, enormous amounts of capital will have to be found each and every year. Here are the options.
What Ireland needs over the next three decades is the exact opposite of what it has had for the last one: a system that can deliver homes at huge scale, and that can adapt as conditions change.
The DUP is returning to Stormont and Viktor Orbán has dropped his veto on helping Ukraine, but it could take more economic damage before the benefits of international cooperation overcome narrow domestic interests – including in Ireland.
In Marseille on Friday night, Ireland found another level. The post-Sexton era is looking promising.
Jeffery Donaldson has confronted his party’s hardliners in a way that Peter Robinson and Arlene Foster never managed to achieve. For the DUP and Sinn Féin, the real work begins now.
The imminent restoration of power-sharing in Northern Ireland cannot hide the fact that British interest in solving Irish issues is waning as the London government struggles to deal with a slew of critical issues.
Ryanair is only the most prominent example of firms buying up lands and estates to help their workers. Should the State follow suit with a key worker plan?
Apple is opening up its app store weeks before the EU’s law to halt the emergence of online monopolies takes effect. Brussels argues it will level the playing field for start-ups, but will it stifle innovation at the world’s top tech firms?
As a young, small and fast-growing economy, Ireland has relied on foreign investors to fund its growth. The model is changing now. Is the Government capable of stepping in?
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