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Cliff Taylor

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Was the 40,000 new homes figure an honest mistake or an effort to gaslight voters?

08.02.2025 10

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Cliff Taylor

Trump’s claim that diversity policies caused plane crash is part of an attack on ‘woke capitalism’

01.02.2025 10

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Cliff Taylor

If the Government does its job right, the comfortable classes won’t be happy

25.01.2025 10

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Cliff Taylor

Cliff Taylor: I counted 276 new spending promises in the programme for government. This is delusional

18.01.2025 10

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Cliff Taylor

Dundrum apartments decision a symptom of broken planning system

11.01.2025 30

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Investors are betting on Trump not keeping his promises. We’d better hope they’re right

As he enters office later this month, Donald Trump will be thrown slap bang into the contradictions of his policy platform. The calls he makes will...

04.01.2025 4

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Even with Trump, tariffs and looming trade wars, Ireland has a lot about which to be cheerful

We have spent a fair bit of the last couple of months worrying about the risks to the Irish economy from the election of Donald Trump as the next...

28.12.2024 3

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Cliff Taylor

Talk of a new right-left divide opening up in Irish politics is nonsense

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael are heading into government with a group of rural Independents. And Sinn Féin, Labour and the Social Democrats are trying...

22.12.2024 2

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Vital issues face Ireland’s next government. Rotating taoiseach is not one of them

And so it starts. The terms on which the two party leaders will rotate as taoiseach is appearing as the first hot-button issue in the talks on...

07.12.2024 7

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Five things on the next minister for finance’s to do list

When the next minister for finance takes office, there will be a hefty document on the desk containing a briefing on all the key issues. It will...

01.12.2024 4

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Cliff Taylor: Riding the waves of the crash years during my decade as editor

Meeting senior staff for the first time prior to joining I was asked by one whether I was “sound on the national question”

01.12.2024 3

The Business Post

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There’s one question which none of the political parties want to answer

Labour’s finance spokesman Ged Nash wins the prize for quote of the campaign trail so far with his comment that Fine Gael was starting “to look...

23.11.2024 4

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Cliff Taylor: I’ve read what Trump’s trade tsar says about the ‘tiny island nation’ of Ireland. It’s not good

A man called Robert Emmet Lighthizer is tipped to be Donald Trump’s “trade tsar” overseeing a key part of his economic agenda. Despite his name,...

16.11.2024 5

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Ireland may be about to find itself stuck between an EU rock and a US hard place

Trump’s return to the White House is going to present Ireland with difficult political choices as economic rows blow up between the US and the EU....

10.11.2024 3

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Cliff Taylor

Tariffs, tax and trade war: A Trump presidency would be a bumpy ride for the Irish economy

There has been plenty of discussion about the extreme policies put forward by Donald Trump in his bid to win next week’s election. And lots of talk...

02.11.2024 2

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Simon Harris has identified the right problem, but a department of infrastructure is the wrong solution

What do politicians propose when they want to be seen to “do something” about a problem? When they can’t really think of anything else, a...

26.10.2024 4

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The house at the centre of the property price surge: the 500k suburban three-bed

The residential property market is looking frothy again. Prices in August were running 10.4 per cent up on last year, according to the latest...

19.10.2024 2

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Cliff Taylor

The €40 million pre-election gimmick no one asked for and even fewer need

After all the leaks, there wasn’t much in the budget that was surprising. But there was one thing. A decision which illustrates with crystal...

13.10.2024 3

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Meet the budget’s real winners: A family of five on an income of more than €70,000

The sample families drawn up by the Department of Finance — and newspapers — to illustrate the impact of the budget often tell interesting stories...

05.10.2024 3

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A tale of two budgets: Billions to spend, but will it win over voters?

Politically, this budget is tricky territory. As one long-term observer put it, when there is a deficit, ministers have to make decisions. This...

28.09.2024 3

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Cliff Taylor

Ireland is at a turning point in its relationship with multinationals

This week’s Apple decision felt important in the long history of Ireland’s relationship with multinationals. And it surely was, though it may take...

14.09.2024 3

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Over-65s are better off and calling the political shots, while younger generations are struggling

The oldies are all right. The boomers are, well, booming. So says the latest research from the Economic and Social Research Institute. The...

08.09.2024 2

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Does your household earn more than €100,000? Increasingly in Ireland, the answer is yes

The extraordinary impact of the flood of foreign investment on Ireland’s corporate tax receipts is in the spotlight again before the budget. We...

01.09.2024 3

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Inheritance tax is not ‘punitive’ or ‘grave robbery’. There’s no good argument for cutting it

Inheritance tax is going to be cut in the budget, probably through a hike in tax-free thresholds. And so one of Ireland’s few taxes on wealth will...

24.08.2024 2

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House prices are out of reach of the average earner - so why do they keep rising?

Just how high could house prices go? Estimating a “fair value” is an imperfect science, but on any calculation, and despite the strong jobs market,...

18.08.2024 2

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Cliff Taylor

The childcare squeeze on parents will tighten next month

The Government will hope to get to the general election – probably in November – without too many controversies hitting. But one is brewing and it...

11.08.2024 10

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Cliff Taylor

Can Sinn Féin’s housing policy deliver for a squeezed middle of young buyers?

The housing debate in the general election is going to centre on one thing – home ownership. The first part of Sinn Féin’s housing plan, published...

03.08.2024 2

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Cliff Taylor

Darragh O’Brien’s department hates the idea of a housing body. That’s one of the reasons why we need one

Populism does not deal with “experts” very well. We all looked on as Britain sidelined the people who actually knew what they were talking about...

27.07.2024 10

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Cliff Taylor

What would Maganomics mean for Ireland? Things might get ugly

How do you come to grips with a populist presidency in a vital economic partner? With Donald Trump riding high in the polls and the Democrats in...

21.07.2024 8

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Cliff Taylor