I see so many people my age, mostly men, having been lured into insanely competitive professions like academia or finance by The Greats, only to realize that those prizes are no longer on offer to them anymore.
Ahead of this year’s Entrepreneur Experience, event co-captain Rena Maycock reflects on what she learned from participating in the event, explaining that what she found in Ballymaloe was a carefully curated collection of givers.
Complex standards and mixed messaging are threatening businesses with sustainability overload. Having trained to facilitate one of the certifications available, B Corp, Lorcan Bannon explains why he believes this process can help lift the fog of ambiguity.
We are simply not building enough homes. Tax breaks for landlords might generate a few votes. But it will not create additional capacity in the market.
Seamus Heaney, the Nobel laureate, died ten years ago this week. Sam Smyth recalls his relationship with the poet, including the time, at a fundraising event in Washington, Heaney did an impression of an Orangeman with a limp playing a fife.
Transport Minister Eamon Ryan has announced a new strategy to prioritise the development of the national rail network at the expense of the road system. It’s a plan that is fundamentally flawed and the politicians who promote it won’t be around to answer the questions when it fails.
There is little to no economic logic for giving tax breaks to landlords, and the people who need help – those providing new supply and those in rental accommodation – can be helped in other, more targeted ways.
Flag planting in the insurance sector in Ireland has only just begun. So who will come out on top and who is likely to pay the price at the premium?
Here is a radical proposal to ease worries about Dublin’s most-hated thoroughfare: Go there before you pass judgement.
New data gives empirical validity – if it were needed – to the political anger felt by Ireland’s younger cohorts. Ireland has gone from on a par with Germany to having more than twice as many adults living with their parents in just a decade.
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