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August 2026
backing the wrong dog
Is there a moral or business case for the Irish state to spend €20m a year on greyhound racing?
The government continues to prop up a seemingly dying industry, writes Paul O’Donoghue.
AnalysisButter Wars
Why has the company behind Kerrygold ‘gone to war’ over US butter sales?
Why has a row over Irish butter sales grabbed so much attention that the government is being asked to weigh in?
Analysispay to play
How many Spotify streams would a musician need to make the minimum wage in Ireland?
The question is related, as all things in the universe are, to Mayo winning the All-Ireland.
AnalysisBank Bailouts
The government is selling the PTSB bailout as a victory for taxpayers - here's why that's spin
The Irish state has finally sold the last of its private banking shares. Did it get its money’s worth?
This year
2026
Analysis
How green is your summer holiday? Why emissions labels on flights risk greenwashing air travel
Analysis
Big chains are the winners from the poor targeting of Ireland’s hospitality VAT rate cut
With insolvencies declining, is a €681 million VAT cut really the best way to support hospitality?
Analysis
The government clearly has no intention to ever publish the Donegal planning corruption report
Submitted in 2017, various governments for almost a decade have managed to ignore the potentially explosive document.
Analysis
Two years on, how is the company behind Ireland’s biggest-ever merger performing?
Ireland’s packaging giant is booming on paper, but not on the stock market.
Gross Domestic Product
Irish people know our GDP is skewed - but there’s a reason everyone pays attention to it
The GDP system works well enough for most countries. But not for Ireland.
Breakdown
Why AI-fuelled job cuts at multinationals risk blowing a hole in Ireland’s public finances
Ireland’s deal with the tech giants is at risk of breaking down, as big companies appear keen to take an axe to their workforces.
Analysis
Why young Irish people have much worse pensions than their parents
Private or public sector, today’s young workers are not getting the generous pensions of the past, writes Paul O’Donoghue.
Flutter
Why the share price at Ireland’s biggest gambling company has crashed by over 60%
The stock price for Flutter, the firm behind Paddy Power, is currently tanking, and is down to a third of the price that it was at less than a year ago.
Analysis
Why one of Ireland’s biggest companies just rejected a €6bn takeover offer
Despite being one of the biggest companies the country has ever produced, DCC is almost entirely unknown to the general public.
Analysis
How Ireland’s affordable rent scheme delivered 30% price cuts - and how it could be improved
Cost rental is easing pressure for some, but it’s nowhere near big enough to fix Ireland’s rental crisis.
The Morning Lead
Are the fuel protestors right - should Ireland drill for oil?
Various bodies have previously estimated that there could be billions of barrels worth of the black stuff buried in the Irish seabed.
Commercial real estate
Beware talk of Dublin's office market recovery, multi-million price drops show it isn't here yet
With vacancy rates hitting 18.6%, the Central Bank warns the capital’s office market could face a “severe” slump until at least 2027.
Analysis
Why raising the Irish minimum wage is not bad for business
Studies suggest that increasing the minimum wage has very little impact on employment.
Analysis
Why young people are suffering the most from Ireland’s stuttering jobs market
There are some concerns that this could be the canary in the coal mine for a softening of the broader labour market.
bull-headed
Strong cultural forces cloud the debate on one-off rural homes, but the critics have a point
investment funds
There are clear reasons why Ireland's big corporate landlords are happy with the new rent rules
Ireland’s biggest landlord says new rent rules will allow it to hike prices by 25%, even as small landlords flee the market.
supply and demand
Fuel prices are soaring - how else will Ireland be affected by the deepening Middle East crisis?
The ‘ripple’ effect of the war is where the country would more closely feel any negative impacts.
Analysis
Ireland is planning a new savings scheme: How do they work elsewhere and how much could you earn?
Analysis
Why is Revolut so interested in the number of Irish social media users getting scammed?
An estimated 80% of payment fraud originates from social media – and banks are often the ones left to foot the bill.
Opinion
Ireland’s questionable relationship with social media giants and scam ads
A recent report showed that Facebook parent company Meta estimated it would make 10% of its revenue from scam ads and banned goods.
healthcare gaps
Analysis: Ireland has consistently failed to provide care for people with eating disorders
Analysis
With Penneys struggling to grow, why is its parent company thinking of separating it?
Despite delivering most of the group’s profits, the fast-fashion giant no longer fits neatly inside its food-focused parent.
a load of hot air
The inconvenient truth for opponents of carbon tax is that it actually works
On the the question of whether it actually reduces emissions – the verdict is a near-unanimous yes.
Last year
2025
Analysis
Ireland's true housing disaster emerges - renting into old age
The pension system works on the assumption that people have little ongoing housing costs by the time they retire. If that no longer holds true, it’s a major worry.
Analysis
Why headlines of Irish household wealth ‘doubling' don’t tell the full story
If you were surprised at those headlines during the week and were looking for a simple answer … well, there is one.
The Morning Lead
Ireland has 'struck oil' with corporation tax, but should learn from the UK about how to use it
The State can save or spend the ‘windfall’ taxes it’s received in recent years – but what should it do?
Analysis
Why is private investing so complicated in Ireland?
The vast majority of Irish people don’t invest at all, outside of their home or pension – and there’s an Irish-specific reason many don’t.
Analysis
Why Ireland's most toothless housing crisis measure is finally getting an overhaul
Could we finally be doing something nationally about dereliction?
Analysis
The Irish government still has no idea how it will fix the rent crisis
The country has set targets when it comes to the delivery of housing, but we haven’t defined the result we want. What does success mean?
Analysis
In the middle of a housing crisis, why are Irish builders so unproductive?
With many Irish construction firms stuck in their ways, it’s unlikely new housing development will rise quickly any time soon.
Analysis
Time to call it - there's no evidence of an Irish restaurant closure crisis
The government is expected to reduce the VAT rate for the food sector from 13.5% to 9% due to this ‘crisis’. But there’s very little evidence that it exists.
help to buy
Why boosting the Help to Buy scheme misses the bigger problem with housing policy
Demands to raise the Help to Buy limit ignore one key problem: we still don’t know if the scheme actually works.
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