In many cases, businesses are closing not for lack of custom but for lack of dependable staff. The lost tradition of teenagers taking up part-time jobs is doing our children no favours.
When it matters, changes can be made in days. Money can be found. Wheels can be turned. When the system wants to do something, it can, and it does. The pandemic mindset needs to turn towards the energy sector.
The Brexit heat is cooling. The Boris parties are over. The Rishi hangover is hurting. With the Windsor Framework agreed and Stormont likely to return, the tumult is finally abating. Time to take a little stock.
An Ireland with Northern European infrastructure would be hard to beat, liveability-wise. And we have the economy to fund it.
A guy I met at a house party a decade ago called me out of the blue asking how he could get ahead without having to do the donkey work to get ahead. The answer: you can’t.
As the Citizens’ Assembly debates drugs, we cover some of the latest shifts in how substances are used in Ireland. Costs of all kinds will keep mounting until we address the reasons why people turn to drugs and offer them a way out.
The Irish women's football team’s coach deserves credit for bringing them all the way to the World Cup, but her disproportionate focus on defence and noisy reactions to ongoing US investigations need to change if the FAI is to keep her in the job. Analysis by Louise Lawless in Australia.
The climate policy narrative is often framed as a prisoners' dilemma, but another way of thinking about it is a fight for the sectoral and ideological balance of power, with green and brown sectors squaring off to determine winners and losers. The solution? Stuff the losers' mouths with gold.
The US policy of "my way or the highway" has dramatically failed in the Gulf States as Russia and China become firmly embedded across the Middle East. The long-term consequences for the West are significant.
A new study says civil servants matter to infrastructure projects. When the state is investing billions on infrastructure, competent officials are a good investment.
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