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Ian Guider: Where is the new chief of the IDA as we enter a challenging period for job creation?

The state’s inward-investment agency is doing its bit this month to fly the flag for Ireland, but is currently doing so without a permanent chief executive

Danny McCoy: Unprecedented prosperity is a dividend of 25 years of peace

As businesses reflect on the remarkable period of growth that the Good Friday Agreement has facilitated and underpinned, it is imperative that the uncertain political landscape in the North be resolved

The Big Picture

Vincent Boland: Demise of Libor is another symptom of Britain’s malaise

The death of the international financial benchmark in use for 40 years is symbolic of a small, stagnant Britain systematically destroyed by Tory rule

Northern Ireland

Elaine Byrne: The EU’s role in the Good Friday Agreement has been written out of history

Membership of the EU enabled the thawing of relations between Ireland and Britain, yet the bloc’s role in the quest for peace on this island has been overlooked

Matt Cooper: Leo the Lip seems to think representing Ireland abroad is a joking matter

Making an ill-advised Clinton quip and ducking out of an important lunch with big multinational American investors in Ireland does not become an Taoiseach

Lucinda Creighton: Ireland cannot afford to be an outlier on TikTok

The EU, Britain and the US have all moved to protect their government institutions from potential Chinese interference via the social media app, yet Ireland is welcoming TikTok with open arms

Decobake owner restricted from further legal action after ‘incessant war’ against Dublin City Council

Paul Coyle found by the High Court to have displayed “indefensible and scandalous” conduct through a long-running litigation over his company’s refusal to pay local taxes

Existential crisis: What next for the Irish stock exchange?

A number of companies have de-listed from the Irish stock exchange in recent years, for a variety of reasons – and now many fear that if Ireland can’t get IPOs of new firms, the exchange will become untenable

Sarah Hamill: Landlords and tenants could both be aggrieved by the government’s ‘first refusal’ plan

It is hard to fully tease out the constitutional issues which may arise from the announcement that tenants will get the first chance to buy their home from their landlord, but there could be trouble ahead

Elaine Byrne: Biodiversity loss can be stemmed if we return to the beauty of our wild past

We have distanced ourselves from our native flora, with a consequent decline in indigenous plants and subsequent loss of wildlife, but we can all take practical steps to help restore it

Tony O’Brien: Playing the Covid blame game won’t help us to deal with the next health crisis

Let’s not waste time pretending there was a ‘perfect’ way our leaders could have handled the pandemic – we need real learning, not recriminations

Lucinda Creighton: Capitulation to SF leaves government afraid to back sensible housing policy

Fianna Fáil and Fine Gael should have a basic understanding of the need for landlords in the market; instead, they have tried to regulate them out of existence as they look over their shoulder at the opposition

Aidan Regan: Are millennials really worse off than their parents? Yes – and politically, this matters

The real-wage stagnation and collapse in home ownership that marks a reverse in fortune for today’s young people is also shifting voting patterns here and abroad

Matt Cooper: Forget ‘Landlord Leo’, the real issue is the failure to deliver housing

Unless something changes, we will be stuck with under-supply, unaffordability and homelessness as long as this government lasts

Ian Guider: Proposed Benefit-in-Kind changes were all stick and no carrot

How did the government overlook the fact that hiking BIK during a cost of living crisis would cause further financial difficulty to workers and to businesses with large vehicle fleets?

Climate & Environment

John Gibbons: How the 15-minute city found itself in the crosshairs of conspiracy theorists

Opposition to this most benign of notions is being whipped up by those who are likening it to a Marxist attack on individual freedoms

John Walsh: The centre-left needs an economic vision to match its political rhetoric

Getting into government will be one thing for parties like the Social Democrats and Sinn Féin - making a success of it will be quite another, as the fate of Nicola Sturgeon shows

Tenants facing eviction will have legal right to buy from their landlords

Landlords selling properties will have to first offer them to existing tenants and sell to them if they match an independent sale price valuation

Irish Life blocks withdrawals from €500m property fund as investors rush to exit

The insurance and pensions company said it had limited withdrawals its Irish property fund after a recent spike in requests from investors seeking to get their money back

John Magnier: a portrait of The Boss

Business magnate John Magnier, currently embroiled in a battle with Britain’s National Portrait Gallery over a valuable Joshua Reynolds artwork, has a formidable reputation for coming out on top – but lately, not everything has gone his way