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The bosses of commercial semi-state bodies are paid considerably less than their private sector peers, something that is unlikely to get us the best...
Simon Harris’s tough-guy act with the banks shouldn’t fool you. There are important issues to be considered about our main financial service...
State’s bad bank had a most arduous task in cleaning up Ireland’s broken banking system, but it had its many, many critics
As history has shown, the lack of an economic background need not be an impediment to success in Merrion Street
Party leader Mary Lou McDonald has had a woeful year and there is no guarantee the party can recover in time for a general election
Budget watchdog has no political ally in government or opposition to take up the cudgels on its behalf
Anthony Scaramucci, speaking to me last week, gave a stark assessment of what a second Trump presidency would mean for the US and the world
Very few were left happy with the Cork-Limerick epic last Sunday not being on free-to-air television, but solutions are not obvious
Proposals for cost cutting are mere tinkering at the edges when something more ruthless and fundamental is needed
New leader is going to be the shortest-serving taoiseach in the history of the state, far shorter than he has stated as his immediate ambition
Justice Minister’s performance at the Oireachtas committee was baffling, given questions were flagged in a Sunday newspaper two days before
Only way for Harris to turn the dial with voters is to go big on eliminating the much-hated universal social charge
The company clearly hasn’t enjoyed the publicity of the last week, but it has probably worked out that customer inertia means most people will just...
Mary Lou McDonald’s shortcomings as leader are in contrast to the sure-footed performance of Michelle O’Neill so far as the North’s first...
Predictions about a 25% hike in taxes to pay for it a year have quickly been poo-pooed by those who are striving for an end to partition
Winning ownership of the flag back from garda killers and racist thugs is no easy task
The incoming Taoiseach will be the third leader of Fine Gael in almost 22 years. Changes need to be made from his predecessors
A story in the Financial Times on the CBI’s ‘excessive’ fitness and probity regime should ring alarm bells here
Ryan, Martin and O’Gorman are all on the back foot over their perceived poor performance since taking office
RTÉ will struggle to find someone capable to fill the chair’s job after how Ní Raghallaigh was ousted, Matt Cooper writes
Jeffrey Donaldson knows that his voters are unlikely to be upset if non-gaelic football is never played at the ground but has no problem taking cash...
The ballooning cost of the new National Children’s Hospital stands in stark contrast to Bam’s efficient work on Intel’s multi-billion-euro...
The aviation visionary Tony Ryan’s idea of making Baldonnell into a secondary airport has been shot down on several occasions, but deserves...
Matt Cooper was editor of the Sunday Tribune when Bruton was Taoiseach and chronicled the ups and downs of his time in office
In the absence of explanations, conclusions will be drawn as to culpability, but the former RTÉ boss is not the only one with questions to answer
Varadkar’s belated conversion to examining health solutions needs to be backed up with money and resources
Should Mary Lou McDonald find herself in power, the temptation for her to hobnob with the world’s richest will be too tempting to resist
The former managing partner at PWC on why he never followed his mother, Mary, into national politics
By 2030 one in five people living in Ireland will be aged 65 or over, but even modest proposals to build suitable homes for them have run into...
Nothing is certain for the main actors in the year ahead, with Leo Varadkar at risk of becoming a lame duck leader, Mary Lou McDonald in danger of...
The ghost of what Paul Murphy did to it in 2014 is looming, albeit this time from the extreme right rather than hard left
As retirement-age beckons, signs are that the billionaire will concentrate his efforts on his property portfolio