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Matt Cooper: No matter how much the new HSE boss is paid, it won’t make up for the challenges ahead

Whoever replaces Paul Reid as head of the HSE will have to try to control spending while at the same time hiring 700 consultant doctors, improving technology, solving the trolley crisis and delivering Sláintecare

Matt Cooper: Deluge of Saudi cash threatens to wash out Europe’s flagship golf events

This week’s Horizon Irish Open in Mount Juliet has a prize fund of €6m, and will be fighting for TV viewers against LIV’s $25m exhibition in Portland

Matt Cooper: Ryanair fills seats as competitors’ Covid cost-cutting fails to pay off

Airline operators are cancelling hundreds of flights and disappointing thousands of travellers as airports such as Gatwick struggle to keep check-in and baggage-handling services running. But it didn’t have to be like this

Matt Cooper: The real bogey for golf is the lure of the huge pot of Saudi money, not the ethics

The participation of some of golf’s biggest names in the Saudi-backed LIV Golf event has thrown the administration of professional golf into turmoil

Matt Cooper: Avolon boss’s €150m plan to bring the brightest and best here could pay off

It will be considered elitist by some, but Dómhnal Slattery’s proposal to attract the ‘best brainpower in the world’ to Ireland to carry out research here could bring big rewards

Matt Cooper: Whose fault is it that Johnson is still in power?

Through sheer brass neck and absence of conscience, the British prime minister has ridden out the media storm for the required 11 days, which also reflects badly on those who can’t or won’t oust him

Matt Cooper: Businesses will survive by persuading people to part with their Covid savings

Marketing budgets have been slashed in previous budgets, but this time that might well be unwise because many people have pandemic cash which they are willing to spend

Matt Cooper: Is Denis O’Brien hoping out of sight is out of mind on the Siteserv findings?

The billionaire businessman, in the past notably litigious and visible in the media, has stayed silent as the draft findings of the Siteserv inquiry emerge

Matt Cooper: Our president’s generalisations about private enterprise are not helpful

We may not agree with Elon Musk but the reality is that he and other billionaire entrepreneurs have done a great deal to accelerate innovations to combat the climate crisis

Matt Cooper: McDonagh’s departure from BoI brings bankers’ pay back into focus

If politicians insist that the bank’s new boss is paid a maximum of €500,000, the share price will likely fall further and Irish pension funds may suffer

Matt Cooper: Le Pen as leader of France would be huge threat to EU from within

In hock to Putin and Russian banks, determined to rewrite the constitution and deny immigrants their rights, Marine Le Pen as French president would set her country on a collision course with the European Union

Matt Cooper: Megalomanic Musk plays to his fanboys with his ‘disruptive’ bid for Twitter

The Tesla and SpaceX millionaire has cited free speech concerns and ‘the future of civilisation’ as driving his Twitter ambitions.

Matt Cooper: Musk’s Twitter move may give him even more reach than old-style media moguls

The Tesla tycoon, who joined the board of Twitter last week, is a force of nature who may well seek to bend the social media platform to his will

Matt Cooper: The DAA needs a priority check on its decision to do a deal with Saudi Arabia

The Dublin Airport Authority last week celebrated winning a five-year contract with Saudi Arabia, a country notorious for its poor human rights record

Matt Cooper: It’s the wrong time for Sinn Féin to push the EU on support for a united Ireland

The party seems tone deaf to how such a request from a wealthy member state comes across to other nations reeling from the Ukraine conflict

Matt Cooper: How can Britain be the guarantor for a Ukrainian peace deal when it has shown such bad faith on Brexit?

Matt Cooper: The collapse of Abramovich’s empire lays bare the devalued standards of the British Premier League

Chelsea Football Club, which lived off financial top-ups from its Russian owner for 19 years, should not now be given public funds to pay the eye-watering wages of players

Matt Cooper: Long overdue end to vexatious gagging writs may be on the way

So called ‘anti-Slapp’ measures that form part of justice minister Helen McEntee’s proposed reform of the defamation laws may prevent powerful people muzzling media comment with threats of legal action

Matt Cooper: Big Phil’s own words could land any damages case in the bunker

The former EU Commissioner may be considering demanding compensation for the ‘damage suffered’ when he had to step down, but he is very unlikely to get it

Matt Cooper: No amount of Metaverse guff can distract from Zuckerberg’s failings

The Facebook founder concentrated on the future in his message to his ‘Metamates’ last week, but the company’s best days may already be behind it