By Business Editor David Murphy Gerry Adams’s infamous expression about the IRA that “they haven’t gone away you know” is a fitting description for the role of the Troika after Ireland leaves the bailout. The spectacle of suited economists clutching … Continue reading →
By Will Goodbody, Science and Technology Correspondent @willgoodbody Hands up how many people were surprised to learn that US security authorities have access to the phone records and the server traffic of the biggest telecom and internet companies in the … Continue reading →
By Business Editor David Murphy They say history repeats itself for those who weren’t watching the first time. Thus there is a lesson to be learned from the larger-than-expected number of people who registered for the Local Property Tax by … Continue reading →
By Will Goodbody, Science and Technology Correspondent @willgoodbody Watch the review at: http://www.rte.ie/news/player/2013/0530/3540933-will-goodbody-reviews-microsofts-new-surface-pro/ Is it a tablet? Or is it a laptop? It’s a perplexing question that users of Microsoft’s new Surface Pro are likely to ask themselves. And one … Continue reading →
By Business Editor David Murphy On my desk is a computer with a Google search engine (European HQ, Dublin) and Microsoft software (European HQ, Dublin). Beside my PC is an Apple iPhone (European HQ, Cork). My desk happens to be … Continue reading →
By Business Editor David Murphy Enda Kenny and Michael Noonan are getting ready for their lap of honour when Ireland exits the EU/IMF bailout. But there is still one unresolved issue – it is becoming clearer that banks will need … Continue reading →
By Will Goodbody, Science and Technology Correspondent @willgoodbody Amid the hullabaloo surrounding penalty-point-gate this week, another event in Leinster House, with arguably far greater long term consequences for our future, and the future of our children, got overshadowed. On the … Continue reading →
By Seán Whelan, Economics Correspondent Michael Martin has just made an important speech staking out radically new policy territory for Fianna Fáil on Europe, Britain and Ireland. In it he says: – The economic crisis is so deep the EU … Continue reading →
By Will Goodbody, Science and Technology Correspondent  @willgoodbody When you see the long running campaign for better broadband, Ireland Offline, offering a hearty welcome to an announcement from Eircom, it’s a pretty clear indication that something positive has happened. And … Continue reading →
By Economics Correspondent Sean Whelan Few in Ireland have really taken GDP to be a serious measure of the Irish economy, because of the very large impact that the activities of foreign owned multinationals have on the numbers.  GNP has always … Continue reading →