There is little to no economic logic for giving tax breaks to landlords, and the people who need help – those providing new supply and those in rental accommodation – can be helped in other, more targeted ways.
Flag planting in the insurance sector in Ireland has only just begun. So who will come out on top and who is likely to pay the price at the premium?
Here is a radical proposal to ease worries about Dublin’s most-hated thoroughfare: Go there before you pass judgement.
New data gives empirical validity – if it were needed – to the political anger felt by Ireland’s younger cohorts. Ireland has gone from on a par with Germany to having more than twice as many adults living with their parents in just a decade.
A lot goes into the make-up of our business pioneers. It’s often about being in the right place at the right time, but old-fashioned luck is also in the mix. And as I discovered with LEON, when luck runs out, you have a problem.
The key question that a vast majority of people who have viewed the video footage of the event, disturbing wave after disturbing wave, are asking is quite simple: Why did no one definitively call a halt to the event?
When I was asked to deliver the oration at Béal na Bláth, I thought it was a case of mistaken identity. But the process of writing the speech got me thinking about the opportunities and challenges that face us on the island – and much more besides.
In the last decade, the churn of High Court judges has nearly doubled. The judges are typically younger and have shorter tenures creating new scheduling and resourcing problems.
Despite headwinds from slowing growth, the Eurozone has arguably never been in better condition from a structural perspective. This is an unconventional view, but it is one that deserves more attention than it gets.
It feels like the state is placing the bulk of its bets way too early. Rebalancing towards later-stage supports could also encourage more angel investors to step in to support start-ups.
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