New summary rescue plan could be lifeboat for struggling SMEs

Proposals to introduce an ‘examinership-lite’ process which avoids costly court procedures could be a lifesaver for businesses and the exchequer...

High stakes for Ireland as OECD seeks corporation tax reform

Paschal Donohoe published a complex document last week arguing that this country is not an ’anything goes’ tax haven. But will it have the...

Off Message: Flighty influencers have gone too far this time

Celebrities heading to far-flung sunny destinations while the rest of us are restricted to 5km is not a good look. So why do they do it?

Brian Keegan: The PUP carries a nasty sting in its tail

Due to the Pandemic Unemployment Payment, several hundred thousand workers now owe back tax from last year

Problems being caused by Brexit deal lie with what has been left out

The Last Post: Be careful what you wish for as the DUP duped again and again

The DUP’s determination to do things the British way blocked an all-Ireland strategy on Covid-19. Now we are all paying the price

Big Blue way ahead as tide turns on corporate cash for politicians

Not every company can be like IBM in eschewing political patronage. But if they want to play politics, boardrooms must think before acting

Editorial: Mother and baby homes report reminds us of ideals betrayed

The Commission must not allow Church and state to shirk responsibility for the woman-hating ‘gulags’ of modern Ireland

Editorial: Working from home won’t suit everybody in a changing world

The government should tread carefully as it brings in new legislation to give employees the right to remote working

Pat Rabbitte: Post-pandemic era will bring a new politics

The state in which Fianna Fáil emerges from the current government will determine the outcome of its rivalry with Sinn Féin

The Profile: Parler founder John Matze

The head of the ‘free speech’ social media site Parler has found himself without a platform after Amazon, Stripe, Apple and Google all cut their...

Man About Town: Ways to stay positive during Lockdown 3.0

It’s all been a little surreal hasn’t it? COVID19 changed the world as we knew it and the way we live our lives on a daily basis in 2020. We went...

Comment: ‘Both sides’ haven’t eroded democratic values in the US

Protest at injustice is necessary in any democracy. But equating the actions of Black Lives Matter protesters in the US and those of the Capitol...

We’re paying the price for ignored advice on lifting of lockdowns

The government’s mistake is that it continues to regard public health and economic wellbeing as competing interests, forever diametrically opposed...

‘We have all had to adapt, but everyone has real grounds for hope in 2021’

Rotary International is an international service organisation that aims to bring together business and professional leaders in order to provide...

Larry Donnelly: I cannot forgive Trump for imploring his most radicalised followers to storm the Capitol

6 JANUARY 2021 is a date that most Americans, as well as those in Ireland and beyond with an affinity for the land of my birth, will never forget....

Elaine Byrne: We need to stop being afraid to say what really happened to these girls

What was done to many of the children and women who ended up in the Mother and Baby Homes cannot be called anything other than rape

Wayne Neilon: Piecemeal approach will not save Ireland‘s céad míle fáilte

State supports have been crucial but not always easy to access or cost-effective and the government must urgently put in place a sustainable...

Chris Johns: Trump wasn’t wrong about everything

Adopted child inheriting from their natural parent

Lucinda Creighton: Cowardice meets opportunism in the online silencing of Trump

Twitter kicking Donald Trump off its platform may have been viscerally satisfying, but the decision is objectively wrong

Pharma and food can feed the economy's eventual recovery

Grace O'Sullivan: More deadly pandemics are coming unless urgent climate action is taken

CAMELS AND BATS, rats, birds, pigs, ticks, mosquitos, fleas, armadillos and cattle: what do they all have in common? It might sound like the cast...

The only four skincare products you need

Is paying someone to clean your house the last word in middle-class privilege?

'January 19 is the date people are likely to give up their New Year’s resolutions'

Netflix has spent millions on its films, so why are they so mediocre?

North America now resembles the North of Ireland on a grand scale

SO farewell then, Donald Trump, would-be dictator, failed wall-builder and advocate of bleach as a vaccine.

David McWilliams: What a Doc Martens boot can teach us about the wealth gap

Breda O'Brien: It took almost 100 years to hear Alice Litster shouting stop

Jennifer O'Connell: Working mothers are bearing an unfair burden in lockdown fallout

Miriam Lord: Why did the secretary general cross the road? Because he’s worth it

Brexit disrupts plant and seed supplies to Irish gardeners

You could fill a book with doubleplusungood uses of ‘Orwellian’

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly: ‘Honor has been, like, homeschooling me’

Politicians have no excuse not to do the right thing

Running scared of the Twitter storm

Reclaiming our sexuality from church and State

UK will learn that size matters when it comes to sovereignty

Making sense of twin threat to horse racing from Brexit and Covid

Foster needs to tell DUP Brexiteers to move on

THE DUP is starting to resolve its internal dispute over making the sea border work, as broadly advocated by leader Arlene Foster, versus demanding...

Questions to be answered about appointment of top civil servant

Greeting cards I require for 2021 

Opinion: 'Once a bike is stolen it's unlikely you’ll get it back'

WHEN IT COMES to bike theft, it often feels like Groundhog Day. Despite campaigning on the issue for years and carrying out an in-depth study of...