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Analysis & Opinion

The Big Picture

Vincent Boland: Tech’s accelerating slide is about value, culture and credibility

Big tech is facing a reckoning with diminishing advertising, overvalued stocks, stagnant innovation and encroaching regulation just some of the factors the shrinking sector is struggling to deal with
5 hours ago
  • Vincent Boland
  • Housing

    John Walsh: Allocating extra resources for housing is not necessarily the right strategy

    Before considering fiscal incentives to tackle the housing crisis, we should examine whether reform can deliver greater value for money on existing spending
    2 hours ago
  • John Walsh
  • Politics

    Ian Guider: It’s time to see the wood for the trees on the so-called Coillte ‘land grab’

    Claims that a vulture fund is swooping in on Ireland’s forests are wildly wide of the mark
    4 hours ago
  • Ian Guider
  • The Last Post

    Matt Cooper: Political thinking on Coillte plan is barking up the wrong tree

    Criticism of the forestry manager’s money-raising proposal reveals that opponents may be concerned more with private farmers being denied an opportunity than with landgrabbing per se
    • Matt Cooper
    • 16:35
    Housing

    John Walsh: Allocating extra resources for housing is not necessarily the right strategy

    Before considering fiscal incentives to tackle the housing crisis, we should examine whether reform can deliver greater value for money on existing spending
    • John Walsh
    • 16:28
    Housing

    Conor O’Connell: Extraordinary times mean a unified effort is needed to build homes for all

    We are entering a difficult phase of housing development as escalating costs coincide with land shortages and other problems, but housing initiatives, planning advances and a cooperative approach could boost delivery
    • Conor O'Connell
    • 14:31
    Politics

    Ian Guider: It’s time to see the wood for the trees on the so-called Coillte ‘land grab’

    Claims that a vulture fund is swooping in on Ireland’s forests are wildly wide of the mark
    • Ian Guider
    • 14:28
    The Big Picture

    Vincent Boland: Tech’s accelerating slide is about value, culture and credibility

    Big tech is facing a reckoning with diminishing advertising, overvalued stocks, stagnant innovation and encroaching regulation just some of the factors the shrinking sector is struggling to deal with
    • Vincent Boland
    • 13:21
    Politics

    Lucinda Creighton: Leo Varadkar’s early election plan may turn out to be the right one

    The Taoiseach’s indication that he favours an autumn 2024 poll took some by surprise, but it is not as risky as it first appears
    • Lucinda Creighton
    • 13:15
    Comment

    Elaine Byrne: Do Enoch Burke’s rights trump all other rights? The answer is evidently and undeniably no

    The controversy around the evangelical Christian highlights the need to address in law and the constitution the ‘conscience clauses’ and exceptions sought by those holding various beliefs
    • Elaine Byrne
    • 13:09
    Business Post's View

    Editorial: Tech growth unlikely to come off the tracks despite layoffs

    Job cuts in Google and Microsoft are a response to shareholder pressure to lower costs, rather than a crisis
    • Business Post
    • January 21, 2023
    Business Post's View

    Editorial: Amateurish property developers are a menace to public finances

    Over and over, Irish property developers have shown a lack of competence, imagination or foresight, and then do nothing but assign blame elsewhere
    • Business Post
    • January 21, 2023
    The Last Post

    Matt Cooper: Free GP care proposal raises issues of practicality over cost

    The price of extending free doctor visits to all citizens is estimated at €880 million a year, but there are bigger questions around GP shortages, pay rates and financial responsibility
    • Matt Cooper
    • January 21, 2023
    Health

    Tony O’Brien: Donnelly must avoid backlash to proposed consultants’ contract

    In bypassing the relevant bodies before they have completed their member consultation processes, the Minister for Health is taking a huge gamble
    • Tony O'Brien
    • January 21, 2023
    Politics

    Elaine Byrne: The ‘rainy day’ Fine Gael is saving for is here – it’s called the housing crisis

    Housing has already cost the government two ministers, and there is every chance that it will cause further instability in the months ahead
    • Elaine Byrne
    • January 21, 2023
    Comment & Analysis

    Comment: ‘New land tax could push up the price of Irish homes’

    Will the new Residential Zoned Land Tax stimulate or stymie development, asks Pat Davitt of Ipav
    • Pat Davitt
    • January 21, 2023
    The Big Picture

    Vincent Boland: Our global economy can’t function without this Taiwanese microchip plant — for now

    TSMC’s microchips are vital, but with Taiwan under threat from China, there are moves by governments to become less reliant on the tech giant
    • Vincent Boland
    • January 20, 2023
    War in Ukraine

    Lucinda Creighton: On Ukraine, the German government is increasingly morally bankrupt

    Germany, Europe’s largest country, should be leading the fight against Russian aggression – instead, Ukrainians are dying as Berlin drags its feet
    • Lucinda Creighton
    • January 20, 2023
    Comment

    John Walsh: A lack of political leadership means business must lead the way on climate change

    Political parties take climate change seriously – until difficult decisions have to be made, or an electorally important cohort has to be appeased
    • John Walsh
    • January 19, 2023
    Comment

    Pat Rabbitte: Donohoe’s undeclared donation is ‘only a cat on the field of play’ compared to Ireland’s corrupt past

    Those seeking to exaggerate the importance of an undeclared campaign donation of around €1,000 to Paschal Donohoe seem to have no awareness of how far we have come on issues of ethics and probity
    • Pat Rabbitte
    • January 18, 2023
    Housing

    Ian Guider: Forget crisis summits on housing, the government needs to get its cheque book out

    The state does not have the expertise, people or time to build much-needed housing and apartments, so it needs to pay others to do so – and fast
    • Ian Guider
    • January 14, 2023
    Economics

    Aidan Regan: Global tax games fuel wealth inequality and erode democracy

    Ireland may profit from its privileged position on the gameboard, but the real winners are the super-rich owners of Big Tech and Big Pharma corporations
    • Aidan Regan
    • January 14, 2023
    The Big Picture

    Vincent Boland: Goldman Sachs is first of many forced to rein in lavish cost base

    The titan of Wall Street leads investment banks’ move to cut spending as outlook for global financial industry worsens
    • Vincent Boland
    • January 14, 2023

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