Soft quitting: Why are so many workers emotionally disengaging from their jobs? Unlike quiet quitters, who can be managed back to productivity, soft quitters have to be convinced the work is worth doingThu Jan 16 2025 - 06:00
Donald Trump is likely to listen to noisy business leaders like Michael O’LearyNothing says ‘America first’ quite like Boeing aeroplanes, and Ryanair is one of the US aircraft maker’s best customersWed Jan 15 2025 - 05:00
Why has Ireland joined the ICJ case against Israel? Is it simply that it’s the right thing to do?There are several reasons why our sympathy for the Palestinian cause has not been tempered by the pragmatic realities of international diplomatic relations, as is the case elsewhereThu Jan 09 2025 - 15:00
WRC ruling is final nail in coffin of the right to remote workingWorkers left to balance home and family life, along with the costs, by themselvesWed Jan 08 2025 - 06:00
Have Ireland’s data centre builders shot themselves in the foot through their own greed? Ireland has achieved a leading position in the data centre sector that could grow exponentially if AI-related demand is sustainedSat Dec 28 2024 - 06:00
Kerry Co-op payouts are not a windfallFarmers who backed the big risks taken by Brosnan and his successors will get an average of €120,000 eachWed Dec 18 2024 - 05:00
Business will miss the Green Party now it is goneFewer companies likely to choose to spend to cut emissions now Greens have been all but wiped outWed Dec 04 2024 - 06:00
As if the election campaign wasn’t tedious enough, brace yourself for ‘the counts’Election counts are an amateur production put on for the benefit and enjoyment of the actors rather than the audienceFri Nov 29 2024 - 15:30
Are the days of the tech-firm-founder-as-rock-star finished?Decision to stop funding the NDRC incubator indicates shift towards more structured approach to fostering innovative businessWed Nov 27 2024 - 06:00
Nothing focuses the mind like the thought of your boss seeing your photo on the Garda websiteThe Irish Council for Civil Liberties has flagged a number of reasonable issues with the gardaí's decision to publish the photos of 99 ‘persons of interest’ in the Dublin riots, but these must be balanced against the greater goodFri Nov 22 2024 - 06:00
Which party has the best plan for the Apple billions?Clear difference between outgoing Coalition and the parties on the left over how to use the money to address the housing crisisWed Nov 20 2024 - 06:00
Half a million for a 33-page report on MetroLink? It may prove cheap at the price Why spending €514,000 for a 33-page report on MetroLink may prove good value for taxpayersThu Nov 14 2024 - 19:00
VAT cuts for restaurants were a bad idea last month. Why are they a good idea now?Fine Gael’s volte face may be bad economics but is it good politics?Wed Nov 13 2024 - 06:00
Are green number plates a good idea or a silly gimmick? Michael McAleer and John McManus debate Drivers of EVs will soon be able to signal their eco-awareness with the introduction of 'green flash’ registration plates. But the idea is proving divisive, with some seeing it as greenwashingTue Nov 12 2024 - 06:00
Does Ryanair’s right to make money trump Dublin Airport’s obligation to obey the law?Dublin Airport passenger cap case will be of great interest to data centre operators and wind farm investorsThu Nov 07 2024 - 16:21
Was Derek Quinlan punished for having an astute businesswoman for a wife? Looks like itProperty mogul says he was misled from the start by Nama and was asked to pay back all the money he owed the taxpayer. In the end he had to concede defeat and was declared bankruptWed Nov 06 2024 - 06:00
Light touch regulation did not work with banks and won’t work for video sharing platforms like TikTokCoimisiún na Meán’s online safety code for video-sharing platforms contains echoes of the 2008 banking crisisWed Oct 30 2024 - 06:00
We know a lot about the 40 homeless people who died in Dublin. So what are we going to do about it?If they didn’t die on the streets then they probably died in a hostel. Two thirds of them would have died aloneFri Oct 25 2024 - 13:05
Dublin ‘urban hellscape’ is a problem that exists primarily in the Government’s own headAs with an extra 1,000 gardaí proposed by the Dublin City Taskforce, many solutions offered for the capital are in the realm of magical thinkingWed Oct 23 2024 - 05:45
Is Portugal the solution to the housing crisis?Portuguese government considering exempting young workers from income tax to stem a brain drainWed Oct 16 2024 - 06:00
Norma Foley’s pouch plan acknowledges that phones cause harm. It may yet see her end up in history booksPlan signals mobile phones – and by extension social media platforms – are detrimental to children. The question now is what the Government will do nextFri Oct 11 2024 - 06:00
Chambers turns a blind eye to fibbing over local property taxWhy put up the inheritance threshold when 90 per cent of people have told the Revenue Commissioners their house is worth less than €365,000?Wed Oct 09 2024 - 06:00
The days of remote working start to look increasingly numbered for Ireland’s workersIreland’s problem has always been trying to reconcile our affinity for the European social model with our dependence on US multinationals to help pay for itThu Oct 03 2024 - 15:08
Johnny Ronan could do with a friend he won’t fall out with for his next projectDeveloper has a history of legal battles with his collaboratorsWed Oct 02 2024 - 06:15
Someone needs to give Simeon Burke a barrister job for all our sakesSimeon Burke has written to the Bar Council complaining he is unable to find a master or senior barrister willing to train himFri Sept 20 2024 - 10:17
Where did it all go wrong for Press Up?Risk of over-expansion killing the goose laying the golden egg was always there for Paddy McKillen jnr and Matt Ryan – and Covid made it realWed Sept 18 2024 - 06:00
‘Dear Olga’: An open letter to a Greek minister from tourist-unfriendly IrelandIt is possible to drive away tourists, as we have shown: start by making it hard for them to get thereFri Sept 13 2024 - 06:00
We should be embarrassed about the Apple ruling but not for the reasons you thinkIreland remains central to a rotten system that deprives some of the poorest countries in the world of much needed tax revenueWed Sept 11 2024 - 05:00
The dam burst when the Ryan brothers came forward, but what happened at Blackrock College was not uniqueIt will be telling if the school remains an outlier in terms of the level of abuse when the commission finishes its workThu Sept 05 2024 - 14:30
Last thing we need is a Department of InfrastructureTackling the weaponisation of judicial reviews would be a better use of the Taoiseach’s timeWed Sept 04 2024 - 06:00
Ireland’s rental market is so dysfunctional even the data does not make senseIn a functional property market, you would expect different sets of data on rents to concur. Not hereFri Aug 30 2024 - 06:00
O’Leary and Jacobs apocalyptic double act is best ignoredGovernment should not let itself be bounced into intervening over the passenger cap because of claims about €500 flights and half a billion in lost tourism revenueWed Aug 28 2024 - 06:00
Children’s hospital: We are at the stage where we just want the builders out of our lifeNational children’s hospital debacle shows State must avoid mismanaging mega-projectsThu Aug 22 2024 - 17:36
Madness for Central Bank to allow credit unions increase their exposure to housing marketIt is hard to see the Garda credit union evicting a member of the force and selling their home.Wed Aug 21 2024 - 06:00
Who would blow the whistle in corporate Ireland now?Robert Pitt and Ryan Preston’s story is a salutary warning to others in their position who might be thinking of doing the right thingMon Aug 05 2024 - 06:00
Is AIB’s pay cap in the best interests of the bank’s customers?Chambers has the opportunity to decouple the sale of Government’s stake from the issue of executive remuneration, and there are good reasons to consider doing soWed Jul 31 2024 - 05:45
Ireland’s low inheritance tax is part of a social bargain with its middle classesThere is talk of increasing the tax-free threshold on inheritance in Budget 2025Fri Jul 26 2024 - 06:00
Global outage should make us question the wisdom of AIThe consequences of a similar event could be far more significant and far harder to fixWed Jul 24 2024 - 06:00
How many times does Ireland have to be warned about shadow banking?The tentacles of shadow banking extend into the Irish economy in many ways yet we remain complacentWed Jul 17 2024 - 06:00
Stephen Donnelly’s inner management consultant has not gone away, but there is a canny politician lurking in there tooMinister for Health’s latest waiting list initiative seeks to shift focus to lazy consultantsTue Jul 16 2024 - 17:30
Nama was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fix the property market, and we blew itCabinet has approved the wind down of the bad bank as house prices surpass pre-crash levelsWed Jul 10 2024 - 06:00
Roderic O’Gorman may be right choice for the Greens in a country slow to give up meat or foreign holidaysPeople in Ireland have become less focused on climate change and more on social issues. O’Gorman’s interest in childcare, refugees and adoption chimes with thisTue Jul 09 2024 - 10:15
Why the deposit return scheme may end up increasing your bin chargesIndustry may put up prices as consumers stop putting bottles and cans into green bins.Wed Jul 03 2024 - 10:45
Here’s why Michael O’Leary is not thrilled about the prospect of industrial action by Aer Lingus pilots Ryanair boss not revelling in the idea of a strike at rival airline; and there’s no real mystery about his motivationThu Jun 20 2024 - 11:30
Banning ‘go-away’ payments for withdrawing planning objections will benefit only the rich What’s so wrong with people who are affected by a development seeking compensation?Tue Jun 11 2024 - 14:39
Eamon Ryan’s extra measures to combat climate change are magical thinkingEnvironmental protesters seeking to block an emissions-cutting €1.5bn wind farm in order to preserve a weather station typify the shortsightedness that will hamper State in meeting its targetsThu Jun 06 2024 - 11:27
Don’t believe the Government spin, we will never get our bank bailout money backThe State did not invest in AIB, it was forced to bail out the system with borrowed money. Any decision to sell its remaining shares must be informed by investment logic not just ideologyTue May 14 2024 - 10:00
Irish students have been protesting over Gaza for months. Why are we only noticing them now?Student leaders have tried all the moves in the activist playbook, but it’s hard to rage against the system when a majority of the country, including the Government, agrees with youMon May 06 2024 - 06:00
How long more is the Government going to cling to the fiction that 30,000 new homes is enough?Current targets are based on published population projections from the 2016 census. Unfortunately, those projections are a serious underestimateThu Apr 25 2024 - 12:00
Helen McEntee frets about knife crime, although the evidence fails to show a big risePlaying the law-and-order card may be a savvy political gambit, but hard facts stand up the argumentFri Apr 19 2024 - 06:00
