As politicians don the hard hats to announce a slew of capital projects, Kyran Fitzgerald says we can learn from international research how not to repeat the notorious cost overruns of the past.

THE quality of broadband connections in Ireland is inferior to that of less developed economies like Turkey, Latvia, Estonia, Bulgaria and Romania, according to an international survey of high-speed internet connections in 66 countries.

INFORMATION technology was one of the centre planks of Ireland’s recent economic expansion and it will be central to any recovery.