The burning platform analogy is useful because it forces you to consider previously unthinkable choices. For example, what would happen if corporation tax fell by €2 billion a year every year until 2035?
Investing billions in a new city quarter is always going to be hard. Just getting the government lined up it is a big job in itself.
Sam Altman and much of the OpenAI team are decamping to Microsoft, where they'll pursue their goal of Artificial General Intelligence. Should we be worried?
While rental availability in Dublin has almost trebled in the last year, the availability in the four other cities combined is effectively unchanged. The effect on prices confirms that supply has an impact on rents.
If your gut is telling you the job move is right, judge it on its merits, with career planning as part of the consideration, but not the sole arbiter. My own journey is a case in point.
It is important to champion the traditional businesses that have succeeded, such as Smyths Toys. How many family owned companies employ more than 6,000 people and have a network of 280 stores around Ireland, the UK, and Europe?
Seulla Braverman now has Rishi Sunak in her preferred theatre, summed up by the emotive slogan “take back control”, and with it the confusion, conflation and deception that have characterised the Brexit campaign. The Tory party is in deep trouble.
In a club match this year, I fractured my skull, eye socket, and nose. The doctors said it was like something they would see from a road accident. But it also made me realise that I was wrong to criticise the GAA for splitting the season. The club is the centre of it all.
Many professional investors spend time meeting the management of the companies they own or may own in the future. Unfortunately, such meetings are at best a waste of time, and more likely a costly waste of time.
The short term woes of pharma companies mask a sector that is performing well, and performing well for Ireland.
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