Facing down the costly “monster” of litigation discovery

Paschal Donohoe needs three plans. He needs a robust plan to discover which firms can be saved. Secondly, he needs a plan to retrain workers whose human capital is no longer fit for the post-Covid labour market. Finally, how do we pay for it all?

The US administration’s new pledge to level the playing field on corporation tax is seen as a threat to foreign direct investment in Ireland – but how much of a threat? The Currency’s Stephen Kinsella and Thomas Hubert discuss how to quantify and respond to it.

Financial economists are fairly sure markets are efficient. That doesn't stop investors from trying, and a few of them from succeeding spectacularly.

Whether or not markets are perfectly efficient, they're efficient enough for our purposes. You can use them as a tool to secure your financial future.

The GDPR framework is fundamentally flawed. It is an extraordinarily expensive regulation, and I don’t just mean financially to the EU, but to every single person in the EU who has no choice but to access the open internet through it.

From ending coal use to promoting offshore wind energy, integrating hydrogen fuel and channelling investment to the west coast, last week’s ESB announcement ticks all the boxes. It also hopefully marks a new departure from piecemeal policy.

There has been a lot of contrition from everyone involved in recent breaches of public health rules in the GAA, but maybe the public's anger is because we're not a rules-based society.

The buses will burn out and tempers will cool but real leadership is required in Northern Ireland, argues Dr Stephen Goss, a practising Catholic who was actively involved in the Ulster Unionist Party between 2010 and 2015.

Those who lost their jobs when the retailer’s Irish stores went into liquidation one year ago were promised enhanced redundancy, but existing rules means there is no money to pay it. How will the stand-off end?

Outsiders can become insiders. They can do so by working hard, having new ideas, and getting rich, or they can do so by figuring out how to divert enough resources from the system to keep them comfortable. Wealth can become privilege and privilege can lead to wealth.