BUSINESS FEATURES
By Jim Power - Friday, May 25, 2012
The latest global economic prognosis from the OECD does not make for reassuring reading.
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By Paul Mills - Thursday, May 24, 2012
In Greek mythology Icarus attempted to escape from Crete using wings made of feathers and wax fashioned by his father, a master craftsman and innovator.
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By Joe Gill - Wednesday, May 23, 2012
At a time when considerable risks exist across the economy and for business in general, it is worth contemplating how successful companies thrive.
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By Tom O’Connor - Monday, May 21, 2012
Markets corrupt by making everything in society a commodity and the risks are enormous, finds Tom O’Connor
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By Trish Dromey - Monday, May 21, 2012
Founded in 2009 with the aim of creating a pillow that would be impervious to infection, Gabriel Scientific has seen its hermetically sealed pillow used in hospitals around Europe, but is not resting on its laurels and has ambitious growth plans, writes Trish Dromey
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By Vincent Ryan - Monday, May 21, 2012
AirSpeed Telecom sales director Brendan Martin talks to Vincent Ryan about his busy working day
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By Kyran Fitzgerald - Saturday, May 19, 2012
In the biggest challenge of her six-and-a-half years in office, German chancellor Angela Merkel walks a fine line between appearing to be a soft touch, and displaying a lack of commitment to the maintenance of the eurozone, writes Kyran Fitzgerald
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By James Saft - Saturday, May 19, 2012
A spreading bank run could hasten Greece’s exit from the eurozone but it doesn’t have to end that way.
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By Jim Power - Friday, May 18, 2012
The challenge for Ireland to emerge from the very deep hole in which it has found itself since 2007 was always going to be extremely difficult.
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By Kyran Fitzgerald - Saturday, May 12, 2012
Unite’s Brian Gallagher was handed a poisoned chalice when negotiating job cuts with Aviva, but the union official scored a victory by cutting the number of redundancies and securing 220 jobs for Galway, writes Kyran Fitzgerald
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By Brian Lucey - Saturday, May 12, 2012
The debate on the fiscal compact treaty has rapidly, and predictably, gone off the rails of the treaty and onto tracks that are only vaguely parallel.
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By Paul Mills - Thursday, May 10, 2012
Is the sharing of state legal briefs the beginning of a trend?
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By Joe Gill - Wednesday, May 09, 2012
I think about my mother’s old age pension which she and her generation deserve after a life bringing families up safely in this state.
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By Kyran Fitzgerald - Saturday, May 05, 2012
The fact that Etihad’s energetic chief executive is showing interest in our one-time national carrier spells good news at a time when Ireland’s economy is in rebuilding mode, writes Kyran Fitzgerald
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By Caroline Baum - Saturday, May 05, 2012
Three decades ago, British prime minister Margaret Thatcher was confronted with a nation bordering on irrelevance, a stagnant economy and a set of entrenched beliefs about the relationship between the government and the people.
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By Jim Power - Friday, May 04, 2012
The debate on the referendum on the Intergovernmental Treaty on Stability, Co-ordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union, otherwise known as the fiscal compact, kicked off in earnest this week.
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By Joe Gill - Wednesday, May 02, 2012
Most weeks I turn on to Ship Street on approach to Cork and wonder what on earth is going on with the docks in the city.
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By Brian Lucey - Saturday, April 28, 2012
Recent US research suggests that not only are many recoveries from crashes jobless for a long time, but that they also see the destruction of large numbers of middle- class jobs.
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By Jim Power - Friday, April 27, 2012
The final months of last year were dominated by escalating and justifiable concerns about the euro’s viability.
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