Applicants to State’s €500m disruptive tech fund unsure of its focus

Some potential recipients not clear on their suitability for funding

Monaghan student wins Young Economist of the Year award

Faolán Ó Cathmhaoil from Coláiste Oiriall wins overall prize

Three-year budgets needed to tackle Garda overspending – report

Longer budgets would allow Garda Commissioner to make ‘more effective plans’

John FitzGerald: Congestion charges may be the fairest way to tax road users

In the next few years, we will need to commit to a new tax regime for road transport

Better policymaking

High mobility of capital and technology means prospects of economy are unclear

Opinion: In the short term there is a prospect of a spurt of growth but attention needs to be paid to sowing the seeds of long-term prosperity

Public policy must be based on evidence and not on ideology or anecdotes

Ireland is lagging behind Europe in the collection of data to underpin policy