Creating people who can build things starts and ends with education. Yet, our system is designed to take the one-in-a-million extraordinary people and make them mediocre before they’ve even had a chance to realise the scale of their potential.
Not all victims of coercive control will experience physical violence, nor will their abuse be so well-documented and they need to be acknowledged and protected too.
The government broke the internal deadlock on cuts needed from agriculture but in this podcast Thomas Hubert and Stephen Kinsella analyse the realities of what Ireland needs to do.
China is seeking to marshal up to $148bn of loans for millions of stalled property developments across the country. This is the first step in what is likely to be a prolonged effort to re-start the housing sector.
Like the NASA officials who learned from the Challenger space shuttle disaster, the leaders who set climate targets must deal in a world of reality. Listening to the current debate in Ireland, it seems they are not.
Ireland's level of infrastructure is below what you'd expect given how rich it is. But catching up isn't just a matter of investing more.
The government's approach to taxation is reminiscent of Louis XIV's first minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert, who said "the trick is to pluck as many feathers as possible with the smallest amount of hissing". When is this goose going to hiss?
Markus Braun, Elizabeth Holmes and Adam Neumann are fascinating case studies in messianic like leadership. Often there are so many other people profiting from their individually exalted status, it was not in their interest to shout stop.
The decision to cut costs by removing cash services from 70 AIB branches was the logical decision for a normal publicly-listed company. But the majority state-owned bank isn't one.
David Clifford has the talent to be considered an all time great but his legacy will be defined by what happens in All Ireland finals. As a Kerry player, he cannot expect it any other way.
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