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The Mercosur vote is a classic Irish triumph of hyperbole over common sense

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Stablecoin, crypto and the coming battle for the future of money

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AI boom has worrying echoes of past crashes

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In the world of AI, a second-class business degree won’t be much use

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Too rich for social housing, too poor to rent or buy. Who will help Ireland’s squeezed middle?

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Ireland dodged a bullet this year. But there’s a caveat

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Can the infrastructure plan tackle Ireland’s packed trains and traffic gridlock?

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As storm clouds gather, Simon Harris has big decisions to make

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Will this plan help a first-time buyer on €65,000 to buy a house?

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A large hole is going to appear in Ireland’s finances - and guess who will be paying?

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Let’s talk about immigration, logically and dispassionately

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The Government is about to take on the judicial review industry. It needs to win

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Ireland’s squeezed middle and stealthy wealthy pick up the tab for wasteful spending

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Budget 2026: Six key points to watch out for in a politically explosive event

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Budget tensions are already brewing. Expect a big public row soon

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What was Jack Chambers thinking when he signed off on this strange document?

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Taoiseach Micheál Martin insists Ireland is pro-trade ... except when it comes to Mercosur

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Ireland’s quiet prosperity boom: Number of those earning more than €100,000 doubles

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Ireland has a golden economic opportunity. Don’t blow it

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Donald Trump’s era of Dick Turpin economics is a menace to our State

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How Ireland’s economic future is being carved up in talks in the White House

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There’s one scenario in which tariffs won’t be a disaster for Ireland

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Amazon is not the only multinational losing confidence in Ireland. Will a €102bn plan fix it?

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We need to face up to the fact that not all middle-earners are squeezed

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When the world’s most powerful banker issues a warning about Donald Trump’s tariffs, we should listen

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‘Trump always chickens out’ is starting to look more like ‘the man always gets his way’

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Ireland needs to ditch empty promises and economic fairy tales and start confronting reality

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Housing scramble for younger buyers becoming ever more fraught

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The Irish economy grew by 22% over the past year. Yes, you read that right

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Ireland cannot base its economic strategy on the ‘Taco’ theory – Trump Always Chickens Out

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What does Trump’s 50% EU tariff threat mean for Ireland?

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Earning well but still scraping by? Your situation may be about to get worse

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If ‘housing tsar’ can bypass Ireland’s Kafkaesque bureaucracy, they might solve the crisis

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Downsizing: All the noise and fury about the issue misses the point

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Transatlantic trade war could have consequences for how we all use the internet

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Will we be back in the Rose Garden for Liberation Day Part 2 in three months?

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Cliff Taylor: The US has changed and there is no going back – Ireland needs to rethink its business model to keep up

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Donald Trump’s tariffs: The distinct dangers for Ireland, pharma in the spotlight and what else to expect

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