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Marion McKeone: Global food supply hangs on a wing and a prayer with dependence on bees

Today, five US corporations own and control 88 per cent of the nation’s pollination process, leading to economies of scale and investment in bee...

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Marion Mckeone

Editorial: Testing period ahead as government continues to struggle with migrant crisis

Our Red C opinion poll findings show clearly a change in the public mood from support to increasing anger and frustration

28.05.2023 3

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Editorial: The US needs to pull its socks up on profligate spending

The world’s most reliable debtor urgently needs to cut spending on bloated programmes such as the military, reform the tax system and stop using...

28.05.2023 1

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Culture war of farming versus environment is a dangerous distraction

Nature restoration, emissions reductions and carbon sequestration are fundamental necessities on a par with food production – and our political...

28.05.2023 3

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Daniel Murray

Matt Cooper: Succession succeeds above all others in depicting reality of business world

The hit television series about the corporate greed of Logan Roy and his family may be fiction but much of it is based on the reality of how high...

28.05.2023 1

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Matt Cooper

Ian Guider: Investors face being stung as Blackbee put into liquidation with assets of €180m

The Cork-based investment company accumulate €400 million of client funds but now faces an uncertain future after Central Bank concerns

28.05.2023 3

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Ian Guider

Matt Cooper: O’Gara’s finest hour in beating Leinster shows how important managers are

Despite what he says, Sam Allardyce is not among the world’s greatest football coaches – but our very own Ronan O’Gara is one of rugby’s best

28.05.2023 1

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Matt Cooper

Vincent Boland: Jack Ma was too big to destroy but small enough to cut down to size

The crackdown on China’s tech sector may be over, but the industry is counting the cost as it emerges into a changed corporate and political...

28.05.2023 1

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Vincent Boland

US debt drama goes down to the wire as threat of default looms

Efforts to reach a deal hampered by the battle over spending cuts versus tax increases and accusations that Republicans have taken control of the...

28.05.2023 1

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Marion Mckeone

Shane Coleman: So-called ‘FFG’ must hang together now, or they’ll hang separately at the hands of SF

If Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil can cast themselves as the experienced adults in the room, some will find them a safer bet than their unpredictable...

28.05.2023 4

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Shane Coleman

Donal MacNamee: Bankers hold winning card in lucrative rate increases game

In a cost-of-living crisis, there is less political capital to be gained by focusing on depositors than those in hock to the banks

28.05.2023 3

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Donal Macnamee

It’s business as usual on data transfers despite Meta ruling

Proposed new legislation means it is unlikely the Facebook parent company will have to pay the DPC’s €1.2 billion fine

28.05.2023 3

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Charlie Taylor

SARP tax loophole is losing its relevance in Ireland of 2023

Times have changed since the introduction of the Special Assignee Relief Programme – and not just the Late Late host

28.05.2023 1

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Joe Lynam

Budget 2024 is a chance to cut red tape for corporations

Recent mandatory European regulations overlap many existing rules in Irish tax law, creating an unnecessary headache for multinationals with...

27.05.2023 1

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Tom Maguire

Lucinda Creighton: Meta’s €1.2bn fine is wholly appropriate, and not before time

The tech giant has promised over and over to do the right thing each time it is caught out misusing private data, but it never truly changes

27.05.2023 1

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Lucinda Creighton

John Walsh: The government won’t do it, but approved housing bodies should be scrapped

These state bodies are so unreliable that developers can’t get funding on the back of a contract with one, and in any case low to middle-income...

27.05.2023 1

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John Walsh

Elaine Byrne: Fine Gael in danger of becoming the cuckoo in the nest with budget kites

The other government parties have thrown their hands up at what is viewed as an early play by junior ministers to take credit for popular measures...

27.05.2023 1

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Elaine Byrne

Marion McKeone: America’s having a masculinity crisis – or so say its GOP men

Josh Hawley, whose new book is entitled Manhood: The Masculine Virtues America Needs, is only the latest in a line of Republican men crowing about...

26.05.2023 1

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Marion Mckeone

The majority of people welcome migrants – let’s keep it that way

Local people cannot have a veto over who lives in their areas but the government must communicate better with the public

21.05.2023 1

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Elaine Byrne: The rapid spread of AI means the truth now has many faces

Artificial intelligence has the power to distort democracy and impact our lives in ways we cannot imagine yet

21.05.2023 1

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Elaine Byrne

John Walsh: Sinn Féin is now closer to Leo’s Fine Gael and Micheál’s Fianna Fáil than its 2011 self

As the country’s most populist party, Sinn Féin has realised the path to power lies not on the hard left where it used to stand but in the...

21.05.2023 1

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John Walsh

Deirdre Heenan: Whatever the election outcome, it won’t alter dysfunction in North’s politcal system

It is no longer possible to paper over the systemic underlying political issues in Northern Ireland

21.05.2023 1

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Deirdre Heenan

Marion McKeone: Disney row threatens to turn DeSantis’s tilt at White House into Mickey Mouse affair

The spat between Disney and Florida has become a war and Disney’s abandoned plans to open a $1 billion Apple-style campus in Florida seems...

21.05.2023 1

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Marion Mckeone

Joe Lynam: Some cold, hard truths about to be visited on our draughty homes

The EU is finally getting its act together to curb emissions from our overpriced energy-leaking homes, and it’s going to cost

21.05.2023 1

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Joe Lynam

Daniel Murray: Winds of change needed if state is to meet offshore energy targets

On time delivery of entirely new industry will need regulation, planning, legal and administration to all fall into place this year

21.05.2023 2

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Daniel Murray

Ian Guider: Vodafone can’t afford to miss the boat again

New chief executive Margherita Della Valle will have to address more than cost cutting if she wants to lift the ever declining share price of the...

21.05.2023 1

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Ian Guider

Lucinda Creighton: Forget scrapping the USC, it’s the one tax that everyone has to pay

The Universal Social Charge has become a political football with which to beat FG due to absurd promises of abolition, but with middle income...

21.05.2023 1

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Lucinda Creighton

Vincent Boland: US regulator’s shot across bows of Amgen/Horizon deal leaves big pharma reeling

In an unusual move, the Federal Trade Commission is trying to block the acquisition of Dublin-based Horizon Therapeutics by US multi national...

21.05.2023 1

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Vincent Boland

Donal MacNamee: Europe faces rates dilemma as Fed mulls pause on increases

The European Central Bank may keep hiking rates even as the US considers a pause – amid warnings it could create a punishing economic slowdown

21.05.2023 1

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Donal Macnamee

Donal McNamee: Betting companies’ public support for reform does not extend to backing gambling bill

Gambling industry believes government proposals to curb advertising and sports sponsorship and to restrict online betting are too draconian

21.05.2023 3

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Donal Macnamee

Editorial: Russia activity off coast means we must look at our neutrality

Micheál Martin caused a stir when he questioned our military stance but he was right to open the dialogue

21.05.2023 10

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