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Matt CooperThe Business Post |
New leader is going to be the shortest-serving taoiseach in the history of the state, far shorter than he has stated as his immediate ambition
Justice Minister’s performance at the Oireachtas committee was baffling, given questions were flagged in a Sunday newspaper two days before
Only way for Harris to turn the dial with voters is to go big on eliminating the much-hated universal social charge
The company clearly hasn’t enjoyed the publicity of the last week, but it has probably worked out that customer inertia means most people will just...
Mary Lou McDonald’s shortcomings as leader are in contrast to the sure-footed performance of Michelle O’Neill so far as the North’s first...
Predictions about a 25% hike in taxes to pay for it a year have quickly been poo-pooed by those who are striving for an end to partition
Winning ownership of the flag back from garda killers and racist thugs is no easy task
The incoming Taoiseach will be the third leader of Fine Gael in almost 22 years. Changes need to be made from his predecessors
A story in the Financial Times on the CBI’s ‘excessive’ fitness and probity regime should ring alarm bells here
Ryan, Martin and O’Gorman are all on the back foot over their perceived poor performance since taking office
RTÉ will struggle to find someone capable to fill the chair’s job after how Ní Raghallaigh was ousted, Matt Cooper writes
Jeffrey Donaldson knows that his voters are unlikely to be upset if non-gaelic football is never played at the ground but has no problem taking cash...
The ballooning cost of the new National Children’s Hospital stands in stark contrast to Bam’s efficient work on Intel’s multi-billion-euro...
The aviation visionary Tony Ryan’s idea of making Baldonnell into a secondary airport has been shot down on several occasions, but deserves...
Matt Cooper was editor of the Sunday Tribune when Bruton was Taoiseach and chronicled the ups and downs of his time in office
In the absence of explanations, conclusions will be drawn as to culpability, but the former RTÉ boss is not the only one with questions to answer
Varadkar’s belated conversion to examining health solutions needs to be backed up with money and resources
Should Mary Lou McDonald find herself in power, the temptation for her to hobnob with the world’s richest will be too tempting to resist
The former managing partner at PWC on why he never followed his mother, Mary, into national politics
By 2030 one in five people living in Ireland will be aged 65 or over, but even modest proposals to build suitable homes for them have run into...
Nothing is certain for the main actors in the year ahead, with Leo Varadkar at risk of becoming a lame duck leader, Mary Lou McDonald in danger of...
The ghost of what Paul Murphy did to it in 2014 is looming, albeit this time from the extreme right rather than hard left
As retirement-age beckons, signs are that the billionaire will concentrate his efforts on his property portfolio
The developer is planning to build Dublin’s tallest building and a deep-water port in Meath, even as he ‘invites’ Bank of Ireland to appoint a...
Unions are seeking flexibility to address issues affecting specific groups of workers
As we deal with the issues of this decade, it is extraordinary just how much of what brought us here has been forgotten or misunderstood
Former Web Summit boss is not unique in being ‘cancelled’ but others have been criticised for staying silent on the conflict
Many Jews living outside of Israel also believe the treatment of Palestinian people living in Gaza in recent decades has been deeply wrong
In spite of a splurge of €14 billion, there is no single measure that has set tongues wagging at the cooler
If its track record is anything to go by, the state broadcaster is strong on bluster but incapable of making meaningful cuts to its cost base
Walter Isaacson had unprecedented access to the troubled tech entrepreneur and world’s richest man and the author’s telling tome ultimately...
The media tycoon, who is stepping down, is responsible for much of the poisoning of American politics, British politics, British media and climate...
Ireiland’s out-half’s post-rugby career will start in earnest with Ardagh after he joined on a part-time basis in 2021 as ‘the Cooler’ winds...
By agreeing Smurfitt Kappa’s merger with West Rock, the low-key scion of the famous packaging family is set to leave his own distinctive mark
Far from getting the credit for multi-billion-euro budget surpluses, the coalition can’t seem to catch a break with the electorate