Vincent Boland: Today’s tech rout is a big deal but it’s nothing like the 2000 bust

Technology stocks around the world are tumbling, but the damage doesn’t compare to the great dotcom disaster of 22 years ago – at least not yet

Susan O’Keeffe: Boom time for oil giants as war rages, inflation surges and the cost of living spirals

Governments can persuade citizens to retrofit homes and fit solar panels, but the real battle will have to be fought with corporations whose power...

Nadine O’Regan: Gossip is good for us, say the experts – but they haven’t reckoned with Wagatha Christie

Gossip might be fun, but it’s unlikely to do anyone any good in the long run, as Coleen Rooney and Rebekah Vardy are finding out

Matt Cooper: Is Denis O’Brien hoping out of sight is out of mind on the Siteserv findings?

The billionaire businessman, in the past notably litigious and visible in the media, has stayed silent as the draft findings of the Siteserv...

Michael Brennan: Is the government’s new housing scheme a smart policy, or just plain ‘bonkers’?

Tánaiste did not vigorously defend €450 million Croí Conaithe scheme when pushed by Sinn Féin

Pat Rabbitte: NI result is a historic and symbolic shift, but signifies little real change

The election victory of Michelle O’Neill and Sinn Féin was a momentous one, but the centre ground in the North remains a prisoner of polarised...

Ian Guider: Why we need to start talking about the impact interest rate hikes will have on squeezed households

Money markets are pricing in three 0.25 per cent moves this year, and probably the same or more in 2023

Elaine Byrne: Don’t read too much into Ronan Glynn’s move to EY – talk of a public service ‘brain drain’ doesn’t hold up

In a highly competitive jobs market, it is not unusual that people transfer in and out of the public and private sectors, and nor is it necessarily...

Willie O’Reilly: Anne Robinson, television’s ‘Queen of Mean’, bows out after a formidable reign

The former Weakest Link presenter is quitting television after a singular career in which she did whatever she pleased – and the public couldn’t...

Interview: ‘We become prisoners of our own history . . . Many people don’t realise they have an aptitude to work in IT’ — Barry Lowry, chief information officer

The chief digital advisor to the government on his ambitious targets for MyGovID and why more workers in their 40s should be encouraged to retrain...

Lucinda Creighton: EU must not make promises of membership to Ukraine that it will not keep

The EU has to decide if it wants Ukraine to join the bloc – and if not, then spare it the decades of delays that have poisoned relationships with...

Kathy Sheridan: Maternity hospital debate hijacked by fear and loathing

Dan O’Brien: It’s considered heresy to say this, but the Good Friday Agreement has never lived up to expectations

If the outcome of the Northern Ireland elections is considered a success for reconciliation then one has to wonder what failure would look like

Meet Mairin Mitchell — honoured abroad but unknown at home

Editorial: We must not avoid hard questions on our role in the defence of Europe

Ireland’s security may not require the country to join Nato, but we must not delude ourselves into thinking we need to do nothing

Opinion: The last thing this housing market needs is a subsidy for developers

WE ALL KNOW that this government is a big fan of supporting developers – but I have to confess to being surprised by the extent of the generosity...

Editorial: Government must act quickly on key issue of dairy farming emissions

The threat posed by the climate crisis means that Irish farmers will need to agree to a cut of close to 30 per cent in emissions

Pat Davitt: Law Society’s opposition to conveyancing bill is misguided

The Seller’s Legal Pack for Property Buyers Bill 2021 should be deemed priority legislation, a situation that will help everyone

Market realities? Disgruntled Tesla investors? An emptying wallet? What exactly is behind Elon Musk’s Twitter jitters?

The billionaire’s pockets may be feeling a little lighter as he wavers on his proposed purchase

John Walsh: Executive pay bonanzas are becoming harder to justify as inflation hits workers’ pockets

In the midst of a cost-of-living crisis, ill-thought-out bonuses which push bosses’ remuneration to sometimes 200 times the median staff salary...

Sinn Féin will have to look for broader support to secure a unity vote

THERE are two versions of a slogan about bringing an end to partition that circulated in some Irish republican circles during the early years of...

John Gibbons: Clean, safe, always on – why nuclear power demands a rethink

Nuclear power has long been wrongly conflated with nuclear annihilation and the Cold War but in fact nuclear plants have caused fewer than 50...

Johnson thinks he can fool all of the people all of the time

So begins another typical Johnson campaign of misrepresentation, misinformation, omissions, distractions, concoctions and of course those plain...

Anton Savage: ‘If the cross-examination of Heard goes in Depp’s favour, it will provide a public victory immeasurably valuable to him’

As Johnny Depp’s legal battle rumbles on, the Hollywood megastar is drawing more and more attention to the kind of accusations no celebrity’s...

Wise and warm Maeve Binchy's recipe for a full, satisfying life...

MAEVE Binchy: The Magic Of The Ordinary was the apt title of a documentary on the best-selling author broadcast on RTÉ last week, on the occasion...

Comment: Russia’s invasion of Ukraine lays bare our collective ignorance of Central and Eastern Europe

Ireland’s historic, economic and demographic ties to the region run deeper than is often realised. It’s time we started paying attention

Róisín Ingle: We feel the same inside, but to the checkout woman we’re the old folk

Martin Wolf: Boris Johnson must embrace the Brexit he made