Even at €430,000 a year, Brendan McDonagh would be nuts to take the housing tsar job
McDonagh gives the impression of being someone who does not suffer fools gladly and who believes the media by and large falls firmly into the category of fools
Clamping down on Airbnb should be scrapped
ESRI research raises fundamental questions about need for legislation to tighten short term lettings rules
The markets could yet save us from Trump’s worst excesses
Trump has blinked three times already when the consequences of his actions manifested themselves in falling stock markets
Would you prefer a hotel room tax or higher property tax?
Dublin local authorities need money and only a have a few ways of getting it
Why are Donald Trump and his architects of chaos obsessed with Ireland?
Perhaps the answer is simply entertainment: Conor McGregor in the White House makes for much better TV than Micheál Martin
When I go, I want to be reincarnated as a leveraged hedge fund
Bets on highly leveraged positions soured by Trump’s reckless and foolish trade policy forced hedge funds to sell treasuries in a hurry
Ryanair passengers are clearly suffering from a mass delusion about the size of their bags
As we all know, there has been no change in policy. But if there had been, the airline just has your best interests at heart
Stock markets are like casinos. Don’t rely on them as a bellwether of tariff impacts
Mobile capital is panicking because, like the rest of us, it does not know what is going to happen next
The Family business: Stop using corporate jargon to describe drug gangs
‘It has not been a good week for the CEO … of the country’s biggest drug trafficking gang’
Darragh O’Brien falls into the urgency trap at Dublin Airport
Passenger cap is not a more important problem than housing or critical infrastructure
Web Summit case: Paddy Cosgrave was Steve Jobs. Daire Hickey and David Kelly were Steve Wozniak
Web Summit founders were unable to escape Rockefeller’s famous dictum about business and friendship
John McManus: Time to do a Trump on the planning process?
After a decade of tinkering around the edges, it must surely be time for more drastic measures to be considered, including emergency powers for government
Legislative pantomime to fix penalty points loophole is not as absurd as it seems
Government has no record of number of ancillary disqualifications given in lieu of penalty points
Project Eagle was far from Nama’s finest hour
The febrile post-Troika atmosphere contributed to the contentious decision to proceed with the sale of its Northern Irish portfolio after the leading bidder pulled out
The more Trump talks of tariffs the better it is for Ireland
As long as they are front of mind they prevent a more thoughtful approach being adopted to the Irish trade surplus