2023 In Review

Readers’ choice: The top-read opinion pieces in the Business Post this year

Here are the opinion articles that caught readers’ attention in 2023 - from Johnny Sexton’s retirement plans to why Ryan Tubridy took on the wrong man

Johnny Sexton after the quarter-final defeat against New Zealand

After a busy year, the Business Post has gone back through the archives to find the opinion pieces that resonated most with our subscribers. Across business, politics and current affairs, our journalists have covered the issues that mattered to readers over the last 12 months. Here are the top opinion articles of 2023.

Matt Cooper: Johnny Sexton hangs up the boots to step into Paul Coulson’s €8bn packaging behemoth

It was the great ‘what might have been’ of Irish rugby but alas it was not to be as Johnny Sexton’s charges came up short against New Zealand in the quarter-finals. Weeks before that in September, Matt Cooper had outlined the Ireland captain’s future role after retirement with Ardagh in this profile of Paul Coulson.