Editor's picks

Editor’s picks: Sit down with the best of our big reads

Our editors handpick the best writing in this week’s Business Post – including Matt Cooper on the Quinn documentary, and our critics’ choice of the year’s best books

Dervla McKay, chief executive of Aircoach, tells the Business Post about how her company got to where it is – and where it’s hoping to go. Picture: Fergal Phillips

In dispute: Will a new law fix Ireland’s planning system?

The government is bringing in a bill designed to limit judicial reviews on large developments. But some experts argue the problems lie elsewhere and that it is wrong to blame the backlog of housing and other projects on such reviews.

Matt Cooper: Quinn Country reveals that bankruptcy has not stripped the ex-billionaire of his ego

Quinn Country, a three-part documentary on Seán Quinn, aired on RTÉ television last week. Having written extensively about Quinn over the last decade-and-a-half, including in two books, Matt Cooper offers his observations on what we saw.