Spending €30 million more on Ryder Cup 2027 is throwing good money after bad
The event in Adare will come at a big cost to the Irish taxpayer, but after it’s all over, who will be the winners?
Irish banks in a deathmatch with Revolut
Revolut would seem to have all the advantages in terms of penetration, technology platforms, business culture and branding
No appetite in Government to unwrap reasons behind rising food prices
State agency that could get to bottom of problem denied powers required to expose unsettling facts of the matter
‘So, yeah, I’d say let’s go ahead with the appeal’. Why won’t the courts use plain English?
Legal profession cleaves to version of English stuck somewhere between the Norman conquest and Great Expectations
US government investment in Intel looks bad for Leixlip
Irish plant could, at best, be left to wither on the vine as future investment is focused on the US
Blame farmers not supermarkets for the rising price of food
Watchdog says supermarkets have shielded consumers from moves by producers to increase margins
Dermot Desmond is both right and wrong that AI will supersede MetroLink
Prospect of companies like Tesla or ChatGPT running a network of autonomous vehicles will worry many people
We need to confront the reality that the housing shortage can’t be solved
Recent data indicates the population is growing much faster than assumed
Politicians come worst out of a row over An Post’s finances
Row over An Post’s finances may be a thing of nothing – but a Minister accusing an unidentified Cabinet colleague of leaking confidential information certainly is not
How many civil servants does it take to run a small country like Ireland?
We are pretty good at coming up with policies but average at implementing them compared to peers
Would you want to be woken for an in-flight meal of rubbery pasta?
The world is split into those who prefer to be woken and those who’d rather slumber
Leslie Buckley and Denis O’Brien try to rewrite history over INM data breach saga
Former INM chairman Leslie Buckley had welcomed the appointment of High Court inspectors in 2018, which he now calls ‘highly questionable’
Middle class parents are the winners in third-level fee cut. That’s why Fine Gael don’t want to touch it
They may earn a lot, but they also pay a lot of tax and their offspring don’t qualify for a grant that covers their student contribution
How property tax could be used to make empty nesters sell their big houses
Taxes can be a powerful push factor for people to downsize
Ireland has to get much better at building infrastructure
Impact of Ireland’s inability to deal with large infrastructure projects now being laid bare