Comment: New thinking is needed for small business in the Budget Irish SMEs employ one million people and they need support to ensure they survive this and future recessions
John Moran: Small businesses need urgent help in this stormWe need to move quickly to save our small and medium businesses, and with them rural and local communities. Innovative compensation schemes will be key
John Moran: SMEs need a bailout to prevent an economic zombie apocalypse By saving small businesses, we save jobs, tax revenues and communities – and we can borrow cheaply to fund it
Fear of 'losers' risks undermining plan's successAt first glance, the National Planning Framework appears to show leadership, but is it really just an exercise in political compromise?
John Moran: ‘The first night I attended a function with my partner... I doubt we would have been there without Leo’s courage’Varadkar represents a new generation of politicians that gives us hope for our shared values and for the future
Whitaker’s vision ought to guide us for this century tooA courageous public servant who sought economic progress for all so as to relieve hardship and want, and to raise human dignity
John Moran: Going beyond the PaleFormer Department of Finance chief says we need to consider alternatives to Dublin as the primary engine of growth for the country
John Moran: Futureproofing Ireland Part TwoIn the second of a three-part series, former Department of Finance chief John Moran says the government needs to demonstrate vision by pumping money into housing and capital investment – even if it’s unpopular
John Moran: Future-proofing IrelandIn the first of a three part series, the former secretary general of the Department of Finance, argues Ireland needs to urgently address its underlying structural problems
Pay restoration an unfair demandUnions are intent on taking for themselves what little resources we may have