Light touch regulation did not work with banks and won’t work for video sharing platforms like TikTok
Coimisiún na Meán’s online safety code for video-sharing platforms contains echoes of the 2008 banking crisis
We know a lot about the 40 homeless people who died in Dublin. So what are we going to do about it?
If they didn’t die on the streets then they probably died in a hostel. Two thirds of them would have died alone
Dublin ‘urban hellscape’ is a problem that exists primarily in the Government’s own head
As with an extra 1,000 gardaí proposed by the Dublin City Taskforce, many solutions offered for the capital are in the realm of magical thinking
Is Portugal the solution to the housing crisis?
Portuguese government considering exempting young workers from income tax to stem a brain drain
Norma Foley’s pouch plan acknowledges that phones cause harm. It may yet see her end up in history books
Plan signals mobile phones – and by extension social media platforms – are detrimental to children. The question now is what the Government will do next
Chambers turns a blind eye to fibbing over local property tax
Why put up the inheritance threshold when 90 per cent of people have told the Revenue Commissioners their house is worth less than €365,000?
The days of remote working start to look increasingly numbered for Ireland’s workers
Ireland’s problem has always been trying to reconcile our affinity for the European social model with our dependence on US multinationals to help pay for it
Johnny Ronan could do with a friend he won’t fall out with for his next project
Developer has a history of legal battles with his collaborators
Someone needs to give Simeon Burke a barrister job for all our sakes
Simeon Burke has written to the Bar Council complaining he is unable to find a master or senior barrister willing to train him
Where did it all go wrong for Press Up?
Risk of over-expansion killing the goose laying the golden egg was always there for Paddy McKillen jnr and Matt Ryan – and Covid made it real
‘Dear Olga’: An open letter to a Greek minister from tourist-unfriendly Ireland
It is possible to drive away tourists, as we have shown: start by making it hard for them to get there
We should be embarrassed about the Apple ruling but not for the reasons you think
Ireland remains central to a rotten system that deprives some of the poorest countries in the world of much needed tax revenue
The dam burst when the Ryan brothers came forward, but what happened at Blackrock College was not unique
It will be telling if the school remains an outlier in terms of the level of abuse when the commission finishes its work
Last thing we need is a Department of Infrastructure
Tackling the weaponisation of judicial reviews would be a better use of the Taoiseach’s time
Ireland’s rental market is so dysfunctional even the data does not make sense
In a functional property market, you would expect different sets of data on rents to concur. Not here