IT Sunday

Move to reduce rate to 9% will limit room for income tax measures

What makes this attack all the more significant is not just its scale, but the geopolitical context

Ireland’s corporate tax take and manufacturing base are looked on enviously not only from the US, but from Europe

College education attainment rates among under 35s in Ireland have transformed dramatically since 2000

Resignation of CBS News CEO the latest casualty in Donald Trump’s long, slow war on mainstream media

Uncertainty over Donald Trump’s tariffs is darkening the economic outlook

He has a ‘great, great desire to help the downtrodden and the disenfranchised’

Unseemly bickering between Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael suggests absence of sense of purpose that might at least ameliorate crisis over course of Coalition’s term

The election of Pope Francis’s successor will be like no other

Seeing a sportsperson try and fail so many times makes the eventual success about much more than golf, writes Malachy Clerkin

David McWilliams takes a lap of honour in his column this week but is far from sanguine about the disruption unleashed by the White House

Ireland’s business model is in need of a complete rethink, writes Cliff Taylor

While Donald Trump prepares to announce swingeing tariffs, the lower house maintains its focus on parliamentary procedure

Minister’s admission to Dáil is indication that the Government’s housing policy is struggling

Despite Trump’s pledge not to do anything to hurt Ireland, his administration seems intent on pushing ahead with significant tariffs

In the digital age, algorithms are designed to confirm our pre-existing beliefs and shield us from alternative views

Oval Office meltdown showed that Trump’s administration has more or less aligned with that of Putin

The US has granted three of Vladimir Putin’s main demands before ceasefire talks even begin

Housing proposals this week show growing realisation by Government that scale of issue is simply beyond State’s resources

The firehose of non-stop announcements makes it difficult to distinguish the outlandish statement from the radical policy shift. Perhaps the US president himself does not always know the difference

While it is easy to dismiss ‘Trump being Trump’ there are clear signs of change internationally

IT Sunday: ‘Ireland is awash with cash and the Government has the opportunity to use this to push Ireland forward’

Flicking through the new programme for government similarities with its predecessor from 2020 are clear

As we are owned by a Trust, we have no billionaire proprietor interfering in editorial decisions and we are free to pursue the stories that matter even when - especially when - the most powerful people in society seek to stand in our way

Weeks ahead of his inauguration for a second term as president on January 20th, Donald Trump is already upsetting the calculations of America’s allies as well as its adversaries

Story of student who missed out in CAO lottery tops the charts as we look back at last 12 months

A look back at the year that was with elections at home and abroad and the ongoing war in Ukraine

While mortgage holders will welcome latest rate cut, Ireland’s runaway housing market would benefit from a period of high rates

Events in France, South Korea, and Syria could have far-reaching consequences for all of us

The near wipeout of the Greens comes at time when the effects of climate change are increasingly visible, while Gerry Hutch could yet be a TD

On current party support levels, it is difficult to see how the next government can be formed without the participation of Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil

Five key reads this week include what our new reader panel makes of the campaign so far

General election: Political parties spend years preparing for elections. For news publishers, too, these important moments in national life require a great deal of planning

A poisonous US presidential election comes to a close, with polls pointing to a suffocatingly close race

Party manifestos will contain a range of pleages but you may need to look closely for big ideas on climate, immigration and the sustainability of Ireland’s economic model

Tánaiste opens door to November ballot but does McDonald have time to recover?

Sheila Wayman delves into the world of DNA, while Gerry Thornley and Malachy Clerkin provide extensive coverage of Leinster’s defeat of Munster

It was a budget reminiscent of boom-time Irish fiscal policy, but will it achieve the electoral purpose it was designed for?

A record surplus and an imminent general election will result in a giveaway budget, but Ireland needs investment in its future

Ireland’s massive pension divide; Conor McGregor: the man whose views seems to change with the seasons; and Saoirse Ronan on the transition from child star to adult actor