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Business Post View: Budget 2025 is an exercise in recklessness dressed up as generosity

Scale of spending increases on the current side is of major concern for the future of the public finances

02.10.2024 10

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Business Post View: Budget 2025 is an exercise in recklessness dressed up as generosity

Scale of spending increases on the current side is of major concern for the future of the public finances

01.10.2024 10

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Editorial: OPW has been tone-deaf to public concerns for too long

The extraordinary amounts of money spent on a security hut and a bike shed at Leinster House have put the body in the spotlight for all the wrong...

29.09.2024 10

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Editorial: At a time of plenty, Budget 2025 is a time for Ireland to be bold and ambitious

This government’s final chance to exercise the financial levers of state must seek to make life easier for businesses and citizens

29.09.2024 9

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Editorial: To starve our universities of the funding they need is to betray the future of this country

Our universities are underfunded to the tune of €307 million a year and more than half the research equipment in Irish universities is over a decade...

22.09.2024 10

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Editorial: Appointment of EU Defence Commissioner an important step forward in dangerous times

After many years of dithering, Europe needs to invest €500 billion in its defence industry over the next decade

22.09.2024 10

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Editorial: Despite defeat, Apple fight was worth having to protect our tax independence

To do otherwise would have been to surrender the principle that taxation is a national competence, not an EU one

15.09.2024 9

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Editorial: Taoiseach, pass your budget and go before the people on November 15

Prolonging the term only exposes them to the pitfalls of an Irish winter

15.09.2024 8

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Editorial: The death of the spendthrift - how consumer caution is wreaking havoc on big business

In capitalism’s grand theatre, there are no guaranteed encores, only those who evolve and those who perish

08.09.2024 10

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Editorial: Official Ireland is clueless when it comes to spending public money

The baffling cost of the Oireachtas bike shelter shows just how bad we are at managing our resources

08.09.2024 10

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Editorial: Let’s hope shocking days are over for former Quinn group

Çimsa’s €330 million investment in the border region is a resounding vote of confidence in Mannok, its 800 employees, and its prospects

01.09.2024 40

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Editorial: Ireland’s investment paradox: A nation at war with its own wallet

As the clock ticks down on these “easy money” days, the message is clear: those who fail to act have no one to blame but themselves

01.09.2024 10

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Show and tell: Nvidia earnings to act as bellwether for market health and AI’s promise

For better or worse, the chipmaker’s results will have seismic repercussions on US markets

28.08.2024 10

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Powell pivot: Traders debate size and path of rate cuts after Fed chair’s speech

Powell, speaking Friday at the US central bank’s annual symposium in Wyoming, said the “time has come” for the Fed to lower benchmark rates

26.08.2024 10

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Editorial: Powell’s ‘time has come’ speech signals start of the soft landing

The past three years have presented an ambiguous picture of the global economy and its constituent parts

25.08.2024 20

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Editorial: Eamon Ryan’s failure to lift passenger cap is now a job for Simon Harris to sort

Taoiseach's intervention is now not only necessary, it is his duty to act and end this mindless national act of self harm

25.08.2024 10

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Editorial: Kamala Harris may not be everybody’s nominee, but she is a tougher opponent for Trump

As the Democrats gather in Chicago, the US vice-president’s platform has lacked clarity and detail on many fronts

18.08.2024 10

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Dead hand of public sector unions greatest impediment to progress in health delivery

A culture of productivity has too long been absent from the health service

18.08.2024 10

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Catastrophe bonds: What are they and why are they taking off?

Issuance of cat bonds is set to exceed record levels this year - here’s why

15.08.2024 10

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Private credit targets further slice of banks’ pie with mega consumer bets. Will the risk pay off?

Private credit rose to prominence over the past decade by gobbling up much of the company financing traditionally provided by Wall Street

12.08.2024 10

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Editorial: Markets volatility a cause for concern, but not alarm just yet

While the stock market may be experiencing a rough patch, it is not yet a harbinger of a full-blown economic crisis

11.08.2024 10

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Editorial: Sleight-of-hand approach to public finances must end

If it is not, we could well find ourselves facing an unavoidable and unpleasant fiscal reckoning

11.08.2024 9

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Companies return to debt markets, pushing sales past $1 trillion

Both treasury yields and the average cost for blue-chip debt plunged in recent days

07.08.2024 9

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Editorial: We must allow industry to grow or country will decline

The new OECD 15 per cent corporate tax rate has eroded some of Ireland’s competitive advantage

04.08.2024 9

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Editorial: Passenger cap a major hurdle for Aer Lingus and Irish economy

The urgency of resolving this issue by next summer cannot be overstated

04.08.2024 9

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Investors have pulled more than €12 billion from European property funds. A reckoning is coming

Open-ended property funds are facing a critical dilemma in Europe with offices out of favour

31.07.2024 20

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Editorial: Defamation reform is overdue but welcome

Jury trials in defamation court actions are in no-one’s interest and it is right to abolish them

28.07.2024 20

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Editorial: AIB and Bank of Ireland are robust but need competition

It’s clearly not normal that a market is dominated so comprehensively by such a small number of players

28.07.2024 20

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Editorial: Global blue screen of death highlights our vulnerability

The faulty update at the centre of the infuriating breakdown in the technology that runs our modern world was developed by Crowdstrike, a...

21.07.2024 20

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Editorial: Appoint a Minister of Infrastructure to unlock Ireland’s future

Ireland must build, and to do so there must be a more unified vision to break current gridlock

21.07.2024 20

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Editorial: Sharp shift Labour Court pay proposal in Aer Lingus row raises serious questions

The agreement, a compromise splitting their original demands, allows both sides to declare a pyrrhic victory

14.07.2024 10

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Editorial: Ireland must become closely aligned to Nato bloc

Nato’s members share fundamental things. Each is free, sovereign and independent, and committed to its own defence and that of its allies

14.07.2024 9

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Editorial: Golden opportunity has arrived to mend wounds in fractured Dublin-London relationship

There are welcome early signs that the Anglo-Irish relationship will be prioritised by Downing Street under the new Prime Minister

07.07.2024 10

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Editorial: Chambers must send a signal and come to the aid of struggling businesses

In the Budget, the new finance minister can signal that Ireland is not complacent, that the government values the 'squeezed middle' – workers and...

07.07.2024 9

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Editorial: Tax reform must be Chambers’ priority in October’s budget

Jack Chamber will be under severe pressure from his coalition colleagues to deliver a budget that captures the public’s imagination, and also its...

30.06.2024 10

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Editorial: Biden’s woeful performance has handed advantage to Trump

US President no longer looks like the man who can beat Donald Trump and keep American democracy and the republic safe

30.06.2024 10

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Editorial: We’ve had enough talk, now we need real action to support Irish businesses

The true villain here is the government’s clumsy and maladroit implementation of policy

23.06.2024 20

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Editorial: Crucial seven days for Aer Lingus as pilots ‘blackmail’ policy escalates

Airline’s pay dispute with its pilots will get very real this week as work to rule policy kicks in from Wednesday

23.06.2024 40

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Editorial: Reason and not rhetoric needed in Aer Lingus pilot row

If a compromise fails to emerge, the Irish public must brace for a summer holiday season that could be heavily disrupted

16.06.2024 10

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Editorial: Fractured EU Parliament will struggle to meet challenges of war and migration

2024 elections saw a major setback for the Green agenda across Europe

16.06.2024 10

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Editorial: Despite ECB cut, borrowers must realise days of zero interest rates are over

Mortgage repayments have risen for Irish homeowners, but the extent of the interest rate passthrough has been lower than in many other European...

09.06.2024 9

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Editorial: UK general election was always the Tories’ to lose, and Sunak is doing a terrific job of it

Starmer and Labour would do well to remember it is not won yet

09.06.2024 20

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Next EU term must deliver a properly funded climate transition

The EU Green Deal requires more funding and greater buy-in from affected communities to succeed

02.06.2024 10

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Republican party sycophants should follow brave example of 12 jurors in Trump trial

There is still time for the party’s leadership to throw out the disgraced, pathetic, sordid convicted criminal they are poised to choose as their...

02.06.2024 30

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Poll shows Sinn Féin still first, but at lowest support in four years

Two-point increase for Fine Gael since last month means the party is now four points higher than when Leo Varadkar decided to resign from office in...

26.05.2024 20

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Crippling housing crisis is a failure of the market, state and Irish imagination

Housing Commission’s landmark report sets out the the costs of that failure, and the rewards of doing things better

26.05.2024 20

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SME package is tinkering around the edges when far more radical action needed

October’s budget represents a golden opportunity to introduce tax reform specifically aimed at helping small businesses to reduce the large number...

19.05.2024 20

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Exploring Ireland's role in a changing European Union

Dark clouds are hanging over the European project and major questions are being asked about the readiness of the EU institutions to meet the...

19.05.2024 50

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Editorial: It’s beyond time that Ireland’s infrastructure entered the modern age

Ireland gets a lot right but its infrastructure is terribly inadequate and harms our economic competitiveness

12.05.2024 100

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