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Matt Cooper: Leo the Lip seems to think representing Ireland abroad is a joking matter

Making an ill-advised Clinton quip and ducking out of an important lunch with big multinational American investors in Ireland does not become an Taoiseach

Lucinda Creighton: Ireland cannot afford to be an outlier on TikTok

The EU, Britain and the US have all moved to protect their government institutions from potential Chinese interference via the social media app, yet Ireland is welcoming TikTok with open arms

Ian Guider: Where is the new chief of the IDA as we enter a challenging period for job creation?

The state’s inward-investment agency is doing its bit this month to fly the flag for Ireland, but is currently doing so without a permanent chief executive

Northern Ireland

Elaine Byrne: The EU’s role in the Good Friday Agreement has been written out of history

Membership of the EU enabled the thawing of relations between Ireland and Britain, yet the bloc’s role in the quest for peace on this island has been overlooked

Keeping up to speed with range of changes to company car tax

The move to a CO2-based benefit-in-kind system level to determine company car tax incentivises the use of electric vehicles and lower emission cars while temporary tax reliefs are available for higher-emitting vehicles

Business Post's View

Editorial: St Patrick’s Day highlights reality and benefits of soft power

Beyond the cartoonish depictions, the commemoration’s annual international exposure grants Ireland vital access to some of the world’s most powerful leaders

Business Post's View

Editorial: US banks’ dramatic demise carries a warning for regulators

Central banks must take into account the potential for liquidity crises as they consider further interest rate rises

Ian Guider: Where is the new chief of the IDA as we enter a challenging period for job creation?

The state’s inward-investment agency is doing its bit this month to fly the flag for Ireland, but is currently doing so without a permanent chief executive

Danny McCoy: Unprecedented prosperity is a dividend of 25 years of peace

As businesses reflect on the remarkable period of growth that the Good Friday Agreement has facilitated and underpinned, it is imperative that the uncertain political landscape in the North be resolved

The Big Picture

Vincent Boland: Demise of Libor is another symptom of Britain’s malaise

The death of the international financial benchmark in use for 40 years is symbolic of a small, stagnant Britain systematically destroyed by Tory rule

Northern Ireland

Elaine Byrne: The EU’s role in the Good Friday Agreement has been written out of history

Membership of the EU enabled the thawing of relations between Ireland and Britain, yet the bloc’s role in the quest for peace on this island has been overlooked

Matt Cooper: Leo the Lip seems to think representing Ireland abroad is a joking matter

Making an ill-advised Clinton quip and ducking out of an important lunch with big multinational American investors in Ireland does not become an Taoiseach

Lucinda Creighton: Ireland cannot afford to be an outlier on TikTok

The EU, Britain and the US have all moved to protect their government institutions from potential Chinese interference via the social media app, yet Ireland is welcoming TikTok with open arms

Letter From America

Marion McKeone: Remembering Pat Schroeder - Democratic trailblazer and pioneer for women’s rights

The formidable feminist, who died last week at the age of 82, spent 12 consecutive terms as a Colorado Democrat – ruffling the feathers of male politicians who believed a woman had no place in Congress

John Walsh: The pensions time bomb will be as societally disruptive as the housing crisis

The government must start planning now to ensure that the state has the fiscal resources it will need to meet the future demands of the population

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Editorial: Tackling Brexit extremists and Johnson cultists is Sunak’s next task

Having reasserted Britain’s obligations to its European allies, the British prime minister must now focus on the adversarial detractors in his party

The Big Picture

Vincent Boland: City of London up in Arms over SoftBank asset’s Nasdaq move

The rebuff is bad news for the British government and exposes the City’s many weaknesses in the post-globalisation era, where financial centres must compete on intrinsic strengths rather than global appeal

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Editorial: Potential of offshore wind energy is too significant to be squandered

An appropriate policy environment is vital if we are to reap the economic benefits of this unparalleled opportunity

Greens forced to hit the brake on climate plans after political pushback

The flurry caused by last week’s proposal to decrease cars on our roads does not augur well for our climate targets

Sarah Hamill: Landlords and tenants could both be aggrieved by the government’s ‘first refusal’ plan

It is hard to fully tease out the constitutional issues which may arise from the announcement that tenants will get the first chance to buy their home from their landlord, but there could be trouble ahead

Elaine Byrne: Biodiversity loss can be stemmed if we return to the beauty of our wild past

We have distanced ourselves from our native flora, with a consequent decline in indigenous plants and subsequent loss of wildlife, but we can all take practical steps to help restore it

Tony O’Brien: Playing the Covid blame game won’t help us to deal with the next health crisis

Let’s not waste time pretending there was a ‘perfect’ way our leaders could have handled the pandemic – we need real learning, not recriminations

Lucinda Creighton: Capitulation to SF leaves government afraid to back sensible housing policy

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael should have a basic understanding of the need for landlords in the market; instead, they have tried to regulate them out of existence as they look over their shoulder at the opposition

Aidan Regan: Are millennials really worse off than their parents? Yes – and politically, this matters

The real-wage stagnation and collapse in home ownership that marks a reverse in fortune for today’s young people is also shifting voting patterns here and abroad