Increasing the workforce participation rate of people in their 60s could help offset rising exchequer pension and health burdens

Effective EU retaliation would sensibly target services from the United States, something that will hit the State’s corporation tax take

What happens to the EU payments matters much more to beef farmers than the price of cattle and budget will be under pressure

As the Fed battles political interference, the constitutional independence of the European Central Bank stands as a vital safeguard

Irish parents have chosen more than 1,000 different first names for boys and girls born since 1964

Faced with challenges from US and China, the EU is currently acting like a rabbit in the headlights with no appropriate strategic response

We have made good progress on decarbonising electricity and in retrofitting buildings but are moving too slowly on transport

Budgets in both Britain and Ireland have postponed difficult decisions in a manner that will reduce their room for manoeuvre when the next election looms

While many Northern nationalists see unification as a solution to poor governance, that is a fallacy

Calls to reduce such immigration to ease pressures on infrastructure would only makes things worse

Luddite approach to AI won’t serve anyone as workplace is revolutionised

Uisce Éireann left relying on budget funds is the wrong model

Any move to unity in the near future could prove serious for an unprepared Northern Ireland economy

Ireland has benefited hugely from its EU membership and now needs to play a constructive role in its reform

Limiting methane emissions is a good thing but agriculture is producing other, more damaging, greenhouse gases