A trend in the US housing market has been accelerated by the pandemic: the move from city centres to the suburban ring. Now, it's making its way to Ireland.
Stobart Air is collapsing into liquidation. Aer Lingus has shuttered its cabin crew base in Shannon. Ryanair is relocating vast swathes of its fleet overseas. Meanwhile, the state seems unwilling or unable to implement the recommendations of its own taskforce.
The betting company will sponsor RTE's coverage of the Ireland team's World Cup qualifiers. Why?
Arlene Foster mainly conducted her business with Sinn Fein through Michelle O'Neill. New leader Edwin Poots has already met Mary Lou McDonald three times which may show a pragmatism some didn't expect.
The Swiss banking system experienced huge changes when banking secrecy ended a few years ago. But the sector recovered by playing to its strengths and finding new competitive advantages. As it deals with corporation tax reform, Ireland should follow the Swiss example.
The reality is that both multinationals and small states can, should, and will react to any broad-based change to the international tax regime. And Ireland will have to play its most canny game in its reaction to global corporation tax reform.
Most tech companies are set to offer blended working arrangements, and the Tánaiste wants to make remote working a permanent option. But what about the companies who want staff in the office? Most employment contracts never envisaged a pandemic, so expect a flow of cases to the WRC.
Whether in used cards, health insurance, early stage biotech companies, Tudor coinage, pink sheets stocks or unregulated collective investment schemes – markets don't work when both sides don't have the same information.
By lionizing those solving cool, tweet-friendly problems like building rockets, we downplay people trying to fix more complex problems like homelessness, wealth distribution and social cohesion. It is now time to build the present, not the future.
For more than 30 years, Fionn Davenport has been a travel writer and then last March, everything stopped. As Ireland tentatively prepares to go abroad again this summer, he reflects on a year when travel went off the grid.
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