Up for Debate

Up for debate: The best from the Business Post’s columnists

Insightful analysis of the main developments in business and politics from our team of writers, including Elaine Byrne, Vincent Boland and Ian Guider

Maurice McCabe and his wife Lorraine: Ian Guider gives his take on the former garda who brought to light the disgraceful practices that occurred in the penalty points scandal. Picture: Barry Cronin

Elaine Byrne: Micheál Martin was a good Taoiseach, but not a great Taoiseach

The outgoing Taoiseach kept a historic coalition together and oversaw one of the best vaccine rollouts in the world, but the pandemic stalled his focus on the major priority policy areas.

Vincent Boland: Modest but significant protests pierce Xi Jinping’s aura of invincibility

As protests continue to break out across China in a population thoroughly sick of the president’s crushing zero-Covid policy, ...