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 Lucinda Creighton, Matt Cooper and Elaine Byrne

Mary Lou McDonald: Shane Ross has written an unauthorised biography of the Sinn Féin leader. Picture: Rollingnews

Matt Cooper: McDonald book row raises questions of how Sinn Féin in power will treat media

The party’s track record of litigiousness raises questions about how a SF government might influence, directly or indirectly, an ‘independent’ media.

Lucinda Creighton: Refugee policy may make politicians feel good, but it fails those in need

Last week’s attempt to uproot 138 Ukrainian refugees from Killarney and move them to Mayo without any warning shows that serious policymaking has ...