Denis O'Brien owns the Beacon Hospital, while Larry Goodman controls the Blackrock Clinic. So, what was the investment rationale for two wealthy tycoons to invest in private healthcare?
Rail brings far less congestion than road transport, and we're right to push for it. But as 19th century Ireland shows, rail is no guarantee of growth.
The underground and self-contained world of the supply and demand of dinosaurs is full of more interesting and unique characters than Alice in Wonderland. And it is notoriously secretive, as I discovered on my journey into dinosauronomics.
There is a monstrous skills deficit in Irish technology. Fixing the problem will take more than vague aspiration on the part of the government.
The Department of Finance described much of the latest bumper corporation tax revenue as a once-off windfall. Yet every indication is that aggressive tax planning through Ireland is set to continue.
We need to have a reckoning with how, for decades, camouflaged as it may have been, government here ceded considerable power to the Catholic Church.
We are a small open economy caught between some very large economies turning increasingly protectionist. Depending on how we choose to look at things, we can make bold policy choices and progress, or we can stagnate.
Intangible assets are critical to growth and living standards. It's worrying that we're getting worse at making them.
Tara Shine reflects on her recent participation in the COP27 climate summit and pulls the threads connecting apparently remote UN negotiations with the real-life business environment, from tax to building obligations.
More than 400 people earning €80,000 or more responded to The Panel's most recent survey covering a wide variety of issues. Here is what we learned.
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