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Business Post View: UK-US free trade deal clinched in the teeth of global chaos can only be underwhelming

11.05.2025 9

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Business Post View: Let it go –state must quit AIB and AIB must earn its freedom

11.05.2025 10

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Business Post View: Ireland’s time as a sanctum for profit-shifting may be nearing its final act

Our GDP, that once-hallowed metric of national wellbeing, has become an absurd fiction—bloated, distorted, and unfit for purpose

04.05.2025 10

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Business Post View: Power outages in Spain and Portugal should ring alarm bells across the EU

We must be prepared to pay whatever it takes to secure Europe’s long-term energy security

04.05.2025 10

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Business Post View: Musk’s weeks at Doge compelling evidence business leaders make terrible political operatives

Since Musk took his eye off the Tesla ball and headed to Washington, the company’s shares have tumbled 40 per cent

27.04.2025 9

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Business Post View: AIB buyback falters as market turbulence spoils the party

Shareholder caution, and proper governance, must take precedence over symbolism and markets may be volatile, but fiduciary standards are not

27.04.2025 8

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Business Post View: Premium Irish brands need EU strength to navigate tariff fallout

Chief focus of Trump’s hostility towards Ireland is the pharmaceutical industry based here, but home-grown companies are also in the crosshairs

20.04.2025 7

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Business Post View: Living wage delay a much-needed reprieve for small businesses

It is one of the great hypocrisies of our age that every public policy must now be accompanied by a beatific moral glow, as though intention alone...

20.04.2025 7

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Analysis: Make no mistake Apple was on the brink of a China-sized crisis before tariff reprieve

A new and lower so-called sectoral tariff may still come on goods that have semiconductors, and a 20 per cent tariff still applies to electronics...

14.04.2025 7

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Clock is ticking on three months to rethink Ireland’s economic future

With a brief pause in Trump’s tariffs, there’s a crucial opportunity to back Irish businesses

13.04.2025 7

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Business Post View: Arrival of Merz in Germany brings renewal of hope for a strong Europe

New Chancellor’s pro-business outlook will reassure the government in Dublin as Europe contemplates retaliatory measures against Trump’s tariff agenda

13.04.2025 5

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Business Post View: End national act of self harm and remove Dublin Airport from clutches of Fingal County Council

No other major European airport of Dublin’s stature operates under such an illogical governance structure

06.04.2025 10

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Business Post View: Ireland cannot afford to be a passive victim of Washington’s capricious trade tantrums

Retaliatory tariffs, while perhaps emotionally satisfying, are a poisoned chalice

06.04.2025 8

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Business Post View: Dáil Chaos and the looming threat to Ireland’s open economy

This paralysis serves no one but those who thrive on political theatre like the hard left

30.03.2025 7

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Business Post View: Era of US-led prosperity for Ireland is over and we need to accept that

The 25 per cent tariff placed last week on imported cars and car parts will have a devastating impact on the auto industry in Germany, Slovakia and...

30.03.2025 7

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Business Post View: Advance of new national security council is a welcome development

It is no longer sufficient to believe that Ireland’s national security policy, like its foreign and defence policy to consist entirely of our...

23.03.2025 7

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Business Post View: Amazon arrival spells danger for Irish retailers refusing to adapt

While enterprise minister Peter Burke has hailed the expansion as ‘good news for all’, many independent business owners are less optimistic

23.03.2025 10

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Business Post view: A parliament paralysed by unseemly pettiness and childishness

The Ceann Comhairle’s role is to facilitate the smooth functioning of the Dáil

16.03.2025 7

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Business Post View: Europe must respond calmly and collectively to Trump’s tariffs, both threatened and actual

US president’s trade war will have no winners, and it is just beginning

16.03.2025 7

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Business Post’s View: Europe’s best defence against tariffs is a strong economy

Let us hope that the German chancellor-elect, Friedrich Merz, gets his stimulus package passed quickly

09.03.2025 6

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Business Post View: What Dalata’s likely exit means for embattled Euronext exchange

If Dalata follows through, it will further underscore the challenges facing Dublin’s exchange

09.03.2025 7

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Business Post view: Shocking treatment by Trump of Zelenskyy in Oval Office marks dangerous turning point

The abrupt termination of the meeting and the cancellation of the planned joint press conference signify a breakdown in communication at a critical...

02.03.2025 10

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Business Post View: Relaxing ESG rules must be simplification not deregulation

EU can be both the world’s most competitive economy and the best and cleanest place to live

02.03.2025 10

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Business Post’s View: Cynical leaders have undermined DEI, but it remains key to business success

Some of the worst decisions can emerge from a room full of people who all think the same, look the same and have similar life experiences

23.02.2025 9

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Business Post’s View: Newfound urgency on housing has to be matched by action

It is hardly surprising that substantial long term private capital is becoming scarce

23.02.2025 10

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Business Post View: Alarm bells ringing in Dublin after Trump’s latest tariff tirade

Another tsunami of tariffs is being prepared, and this time they will affect every country with which the US trades

16.02.2025 10

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Business Post View: Arts Council IT debacle is a monument to public waste

What happened here was the systematic erosion of public funds through a toxic mixture of ineptitude and unchecked arrogance

16.02.2025 10

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Business Post View: Bankinter offers a flicker of hope to long-suffering Irish bank customers

Spanish bank’s deepened commitment to Ireland, via its Avant Money operation, marks a significant step towards a more competitive and dynamic...

09.02.2025 10

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Business Post View: Panic and scramble does not equate to a meaningful housing policy

09.02.2025 10

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Business Post View: ECB must continue to cut interest rates to stimulate growth

The gap between the Fed and the ECB also reflects the dawning of a new political age with the arrival in the White House of the unpredictable and...

02.02.2025 20

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Business Post’s View: Expansion of junior ministers reeks of quango culture

The willingness to dilute decision-making in government reflects the fact that the public service has a productivity challenge

02.02.2025 10

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Editorial: State’s exit from AIB will be rightly hailed as triumph

This year should finally see state fully divest from the pillar bank, almost recouping its total investment of €20.8 billion

26.01.2025 10

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Editorial: Coercive nationalism of Trump must be confronted

Europe must regain its mojo and reassert its leadership, but needs Germany to do it

26.01.2025 10

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Editorial: Trump’s return to White House is a moment of great risk to world order

His inauguration suggests the world should brace for four years of disruption and unpredictability

19.01.2025 7

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Business Post View: President Higgins’ naivety on Nato spending exposes blinkered vision

The president’s remarks ignore the fact that Ireland cannot defend its own borders without external assistance

12.01.2025 10

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Business Post View: Aer Lingus must deliver to secure its future within IAG

Described as the ‘runt of the litter’ within the airline group, the former national carrier’s future looks less than certain

12.01.2025 10

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Editorial: Our flush incoming government must finally grasp the nettle and invest in the basics

Rosy economic outlook but next administration has tough choices to make

05.01.2025 5

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Business Post’s view: Nippon Steel blunder shows we are in Late Soviet America

Blocking the Japanese merger of US Steel shows US protectionism has gone mainstream even before Trump takes office

04.01.2025 4

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Editorial: As green wave recedes, political challenge is to accelerate climate action

Even as the political appetite for climate action wanes, a way must be found to ramp it up to unprecedented levels

29.12.2024 4

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Editorial: 2024 was a good year for democracy but little else

As many as 3 billion people cast ballots this year and while the outcomes were often surprising and sometimes dismaying, it was a victory for...

29.12.2024 4

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Editorial: Holyhead delays quickly emerging into major crisis

Damage caused by Storm Darragh has potential to become massive calamity for businesses and hauliers in Ireland

22.12.2024 3

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Editorial: Micheál Martin and Simon Harris look set to get government largely on their terms

Presence of right of centre independents will be a less onerous challenge than Labour or the Social Democrats in office

22.12.2024 6

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Editorial: Crises in Germany and France risk stagnation spread across Europe

Fixing eurozone’s problems requires functioning governments and robust economies, and right now, neither Germany nor France can really claim to...

15.12.2024 3

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Editorial: Task of succeeding Leo Clancy is a test for Ireland’s appetite for success

At this critical juncture for Irish enterprise, we can’t expect champagne leadership on a lemonade budget

15.12.2024 4

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Editorial: Just as Europe needs leadership, a political vacuum has formed

France and Germany are in disarray just at the moment that Europe needs their leadership

08.12.2024 4

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Editorial: Ireland must create the environment for entrepreneurs to thrive, not rest on laurels of past successes

It is easy to celebrate the Irish entrepreneurs but more difficult to create the environment to support it

08.12.2024 3

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Business Post View: In a most uncertain world, Ireland needs a new government and quickly

The verdict of the people will emerge fully today, but we cannot afford another long period of political stalemate

01.12.2024 5

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Business Post at 35: Our 35-year history has seen a country and society transformed

During its 35 years the Business Post has had several owners, each committed to the values of free and independent journalism in the public interest

01.12.2024 4

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Editorial: Manifesto promises on public finances brimming with dishonesty

This election is not a contest of visions for the future, but a referendum on how much fiscal recklessness the public is willing to tolerate

24.11.2024 4

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Business Post View: Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil risk losing grip on victory in parochial spats

They seem to have forgotten that their road back to power snakes through mutual cooperation

17.11.2024 3

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