Budget 2026 swaps short-term giveaways for long-term investment. The challenge now is whether fiscal restraint can hold in a system used to overspending.
Ireland does not suffer from too many homes. It suffers from too few. Vacancy is not the challenge. Scarcity is.
In a country with soaring rents and a deepening housing crisis, the rental story resonated with people. Jim Gavin's decision to withdraw raises serious questions for Taoiseach Micheál Martin.
A scientist, entrepreneur, and investor, Scott is sanguine about the positive potential of artificial intelligence but lucid about the disruption under way, including in consumer behaviour.
The Fiscal Advisory Council, Central Bank and ESRI all say the same thing: rein in spending. The Government’s response? Spend more.
The jeering and jingoism on display at Bethpage were no anomaly — they echoed a political culture shaped by a president who thrives on spectacle, insults, and division.
Despite strong warnings from the Central Bank, the ESRI and the Fiscal Advisory Council, the government looks set to blow past its own spending rules. Colm McCarthy warns that Ireland risks repeating old mistakes.
With a new schedule finally emerging from retirements and the ashes of the pay scandal, Montrose hasn’t been this exciting since the Public Accounts Committee hearings.
By borrowing against its PLC shares instead of selling them at the time of its de-merger from Glanbia in 2022, the farmers’ co-op has made a multi-million-euro gain.
Sinn Féin is now leading a popular front of Labour, the Social Democrats, the Greens and the hard left. This is a historic change, which appeared to be confirmed in the first presidential debate.
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