The meteoric growth of OpenAI’s Dublin office shows that multinationals are still very happy to come to Ireland to do business, pay (less) tax, and face regulators.
Andy Farrell is not thinking in four-year cycles. This squad is optimised for winning the 2024 Six Nations, not the 2027 World Cup.
Ian Bailey spoke at length to Máiría Cahill in the west Cork town of Schull where he was the main suspect in the murder of Sophie Toscan du Plantier. He was polite, edgy, guarded, a performer who could be chilling.
It often feels like entrepreneurship is a constant cycle of building, preparing to build, and then building again. The momentum created by the current wave of rapid change will carry many businesses to greater heights. It will crush others.
Is Ireland really governed by feckless eejits and the pages of its newspapers filled with hacks and jokers? Are we incapable of turning big ideas into reality? More detail, not less, is key to solving those questions.
The National Planning Framework should not try to direct cities around the country, like water through a canal. A mysterious process called Zipf's law governs city and company growth.
The geography of the housing construction industry is changing. While record numbers of new homes are being built, that is not the case in Dublin’s commuter counties, raising questions for planning policy.
Jeffrey Donaldson is facing the immediate test of convincing the 12 members of the DUP's officer board to restore power-sharing, but he and unionism as a whole face more challenges than internal party politics.
Prices, interest rates, profits and wages are re-aligning before our eyes. As always in cases of high volatility, there will be winners and losers.
Whatever about the rest of Javier Milei's agenda, his presidency could go down as a massive success if he follows through on one of his plans: to scrap the Argentinian peso.
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