Someone needs to give Simeon Burke a barrister job for all our sakes
Simeon Burke has written to the Bar Council complaining he is unable to find a master or senior barrister willing to train him
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 real
‘Dear Olga’: An open letter to a Greek minister from tourist-unfriendly Ireland
It is possible to drive away tourists, as we have shown: start by making it hard for them to get there
We should be embarrassed about the Apple ruling but not for the reasons you think
Ireland remains central to a rotten system that deprives some of the poorest countries in the world of much needed tax revenue
The dam burst when the Ryan brothers came forward, but what happened at Blackrock College was not unique
It will be telling if the school remains an outlier in terms of the level of abuse when the commission finishes its work
Last thing we need is a Department of Infrastructure
Tackling the weaponisation of judicial reviews would be a better use of the Taoiseach’s time
Ireland’s rental market is so dysfunctional even the data does not make sense
In a functional property market, you would expect different sets of data on rents to concur. Not here
O’Leary and Jacobs apocalyptic double act is best ignored
Government 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 revenue
Children’s hospital: We are at the stage where we just want the builders out of our life
National children’s hospital debacle shows State must avoid mismanaging mega-projects
Madness for Central Bank to allow credit unions increase their exposure to housing market
It is hard to see the Garda credit union evicting a member of the force and selling their home.
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 thing
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 so
Ireland’s low inheritance tax is part of a social bargain with its middle classes
There is talk of increasing the tax-free threshold on inheritance in Budget 2025
Global outage should make us question the wisdom of AI
The consequences of a similar event could be far more significant and far harder to fix
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 complacent