Stock Take Hostelworld’s strong profit growth provides a sunny outlook for investors The Dublin-based online travel agent is recovering strongly from the worst impacts of the pandemic and has already achieved many of its 2025 targets
Legal Locked out: Foot Locker loses appeal over unpaid pandemic rentDismissed appeal follows what is believed to be the first pandemic-related rent dispute heard by an appellate court in Ireland
Politics Analysis: Leo Varadkar won the hearts of big business but forgot Irish SMEs in the endThe departing Taoiseach took a hands-on approach to win investment from huge multinationals but his recent policies are damaging Irish SMEs
Markets Revealed: The seven Irish stocks yet to recover from the pandemicKerry Group, FD Technologies, and Ires Reit are included on the list of companies trading below where they were before the Covid-19 outbreak
Companies Mercedes-Benz dealer Gilmore’s warns microchip shortage is still negatively impacting car sales
Opinion Paschal Donohoe: Public servants were offered 8.5% pay rise ... on top of 9% given since 2020 Pay increases on offer to workers are ahead of forecasted inflation rates and was a fair offer
Health ESRI: Big private operators now dominating nursing home sector With the closure of almost 700 public beds, the sector is now ‘increasingly reliant’ on a small number of large profit-driven operators, says state research body
Tax Business owners demand delay to May deadline to pay €1.8bn in warehoused Covid-era tax debtRevenue Commissioner Ruth Kennedy urged those businesses who have availed of the scheme to “start making realistic plans” to repay their debt
Opinion Anton Savage: ‘Learn lessons, don’t apportion blame’ is the aviation motto others would do well to adoptThe UK’s Covid inquiry should take a leaf from aviation’s book which has learned lessons from mistakes in the past
Economy Analysis: even with record tax revenues, the Irish state may be spending beyond its meansThe government took in €88.1bn in tax revenues last year - but its spending also increased to an unprecedented level
Health Simon Harris: Covid inquiry terms of reference expected before Cabinet ‘shortly’ Taoiseach also said delay in getting Covid-19 inquiry underway was needed to get the terms of reference right so it did not stray into ‘all sorts of things’, as happened in Britain
Tax Revenue warns businesses about looming deadline on warehoused tax debt 58,000 companies still owe €1.8bn in debt to the State with 10% owing more than €50,000
The Big Interview Anita Thomas Emirates’ Ireland boss on new trends: ‘Leisure travellers are flying business class’Anita Thomas says that people need to consider the full benefits of aviation growth when discussing the plans to expand Dublin Airport
Politics ‘Unpredictable events’ derailed delivery of Covid inquiry, Leo Varadkar saysTaoiseach pledges that Ireland’s inquiry into the pandemic will ‘certainly’ be held next year
UK Politics Boris Johnson: I’m sorry for the pain and the suffering of the Covid victimsFormer British prime minister begins two days of evidence at the UK Covid-19 Inquiry
Covid-19 Government faces ‘challenge’ in appointing Covid inquiry members, Varadkar warnsCountry’s pandemic probe due to get underway in early 2024
Opinion John Walsh: Far from being full, Ireland needs to see more migrants to drive economyA national debate on the subject is needed – not to give a voice to hatred but to show how damaging restricting movement could be
Dublin Riots Shane Coleman: No more excuses – we need to reclaim the streets of our capital Parts of Dublin’s city centre have such an air of menace, it’s no wonder people regard them as ‘no-go’ areas
Covid-19 Matt Cooper: As Covid raises its head again, the 16 questions the state must answer to be ready for any new pandemicAn inquiry into what how we dealt with Covid would be of limited use due to various legal constraints; a forward-looking preview of how we could react to any new threat would be much more useful
Covid-19 Covid-19 in Ireland: A timeline of fear, farce and frustrationThe key dates that affected the country as it battled the deadly disease that cost 9,300 lives