Highlights

Doing business the Ryanair way

Ryanair is an organisation that seems to do everything wrong, but it still thrives

Brexit Breakthrough Quotes

The UK and the EU have agreed a provisional deal on the border and other issues that will allow work to move on to the second stage of Brexit negotiations.

Ireland's Brexit conundrum

Ireland faces two options at the European Council meeting next week and neither is particularly palatable

Why the National Development Plan is doomed for failure

A look at why the country's National Development Plan is doomed for failure

What are you getting when you buy gadget insurance?

Why bad people get good jobs

Evidence suggests the traits of narcissism, Machiavellianism and psychopathology are linked to career advancement

Do you know what a bitcoin is?

Will Goodbody explains just what a bitcoin is

How the Brexit bill is calculated

A breakdown of how the Brexit bill is being calculated

Broker Notes

Read the views of analysts at the main Dublin stockbrokers each weekday morning

Ireland's health spending needs to be put into perspective

Ireland's health spending needs to be put into perspective

The English economic conundrum

What does the Bank of England's recent rise in interest rates tell us about the economic health of our nearest trading partners as they grapple with Brexit?

Review: iPhone X - Pretty as a picture, but not perfect

Multinationals and tax

Pascal Saint-Amans, Director of the OECD Centre for Tax Policy and Administration, talks about new rules which he says will stop multinationals avoiding tax

Small towns suffered most from recession

Martin Quigley, Manager of Pobal's Monitoring and Analysis Unit, discusses a new index which breaks down the levels of affluence or disadvantage across Ireland

Slack: Fundraising, the competition, and Ireland

Paradise Papers and Apple

Simon Bowers, investigative journalist with the ICIJ, outlines details from the Paradise Papers which show Apple has a secretive new structure that enable it to avoid billions in taxes

What are the Paradise Papers?

The Paradise Papers have yet again brought the matter of tax affairs of the rich and powerful under global scrutiny.

Misbehaviour in the workplace: bad apples or bad barrels?

When it comes to a culture of bad behaviour in a business, is it the fault of an individual or the organisation?

Doing time: Dark tourism in Ireland

Could the WTO help avoid a hard border after Brexit?

Explainer: The tracker mortgage scandal

It hasn't gone away you know... the cost of the bank bailout

Tracker mortgage issue

Financial advisor Padraic Kissane on the tracker scandal

No compromise in sight as EU leaders meet for summit

The prospect of Britain achieving a breakthrough at this week's EU summit had long been discarded. On the three key issues – Britain's divorce bill, the rights of EU citizens and the Irish border – London has still not done enough for the EU to believe that a disorderly withdrawal can be avoided.

Meet Ireland's pioneering mathematical women

A Maths Week salute to some of Irish women who lead the way when it came to a career in mathematics