Ireland’s success in attracting tens of thousands of jobs has been spectacular, and corporation tax from companies setting up here is vital to government income. However, if success is to continue, we need to employ enough people doing the right type of work.
Despite progress in construction output over recent years, there is still a real need for new rental homes across the country, not just in the big population centres but also in smaller provincial towns. Can Ireland deliver them?
The national debate on what constitutes a family has implications for family businesses. Irish farms illustrate most acutely the links between asset ownership and gender equality.
Irish PLCs are revealing what their businesses looks like in a year when no new virus, variant or war raised its head to disrupt them. It would be very rosy were it not for the stubbornly high interest rates.
More than a century ago, Arthur Griffith saw capitalism as the building block of the economy while overtly advocating for state intervention. As the next election approaches, Sinn Féin’s stance is still rooted in this century-old policy.
The latest president of the GAA comes to the role with a reforming agenda. His plans are progressive and transformative and include change at all levels. Whether he succeeds or not, it will be noteworthy.
Ireland is never, ever, ever building an innovation system of the scale of the UK, or the US, even in per-person terms. Then why bother? Because small states have to choose carefully.
For years, Glanbia’s performance trailed behind Kerry’s. The tide is now turning.
If an organisation can’t do its core job, problems will show up one way or another. Either it’ll make a poor quality product for a fair price, as is happening with Boeing. Or it’ll make a good quality product at massive cost, as happened with the National Children’s Hospital.
The pattern of behaviour by fraudsters and their open brazenness are hard to believe, until you realise how much they enable fraud in the first place.
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