Facing down the costly “monster” of litigation discovery

The border tycoon has finally ended his dream of reclaiming his former throne. However, it is a shame that Quinn’s move has come years too late and lacks both grace and contrition. Sean Quinn is not the victim here.

In their time the DUP has said that there would never be the Good Friday, IRA disarming or power-sharing with Sinn Fein. Now they are telling us that the new version of the Irish backstop will never be accepted. We shall see.

During an election campaign, the Arcuri question will be extrapolated to the bigger big issue of Boris and The Women. When one woman becomes a problem for a man like Johnson, a whole lot of woman become a major problem.

Depending on who you talk to, the government’s move to increase Carbon Tax was either too much too soon or too little too late. Either way, the tax needs to be a stepping stone to a different Ireland. And that involves changes our systems of production.

If Tony Spollen, who died last week, had kept his head down, he would have risen higher and higher within AIB. Instead in 1991, Spollen wrote a memo to his boss warning the bank of a potential Deposit Interest Retention Tax liability of £100m triggering a massive banking scandal.

Becoming a hub for electric aviation is an example of the innovation policies the country should embrace to establish itself as a global centre for the commercialisation of new technologies.

Global research shows that tackling farming practices, diets and food waste at the same time is the only way to achieve meaningful cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.

The markets are continuing to ignore the build up of the new debt bubble. Trouble is looming.

Experience has thought me that IP is an asset worth protecting for every entrepreneur – not just tech giants or songwriters.

Paschal Donohoe created a clear juxtaposition between his decision to rein in institutional investor profits (and stymy a tax move by Green Reit) and his support for small Irish business though a €1.2bn Brexit package and an overhaul of several schemes.