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Soft quitting: Why are so many workers emotionally disengaging from their jobs?

16.01.2025 10

John Mcmanus

Why has Ireland joined the ICJ case against Israel? Is it simply that it’s the right thing to do?

09.01.2025 10

John Mcmanus

As if the election campaign wasn’t tedious enough, brace yourself for ‘the counts’

It’s hard to pick a highlight of this most dull of election campaigns. It only sparked into life – albeit briefly – twice. The first occasion...

29.11.2024 3

John Mcmanus

Nothing focuses the mind like the thought of your boss seeing your photo on the Garda website

The trial of Declan Donaghey, who has been sentenced to six-and-a-half years in jail for setting a Garda car alight during last year’s Dublin...

22.11.2024 20

John Mcmanus

Half a million for a 33-page report on MetroLink? It may prove cheap at the price

In 2022, the global accounting and consultancy firm EY unveiled plans to split its business in two and float its consulting arm on the stock...

14.11.2024 2

John Mcmanus

Does Ryanair’s right to make money trump Dublin Airport’s obligation to obey the law?

There has been a lot of noise in the last few months over the plan to cap passenger numbers at Dublin Airport next summer at 25.2 million, within...

07.11.2024 2

John Mcmanus

We know a lot about the 40 homeless people who died in Dublin. So what are we going to do about it?

The news that 40 homeless people have died in the Dublin region during the first 10 months of this year may have merited the front page of The...

25.10.2024 10

John Mcmanus

Norma Foley’s pouch plan acknowledges that phones cause harm. It may yet see her end up in history books

Norma Foley’s plan to provide mobile phone pouches for schools has been met with derision and a certain amount of hostility. But mostly with...

11.10.2024 3

John Mcmanus

A battle is looming over remote work … and employers are likely to win

A sense of unease pervades the workplace as the days of remote working start to look increasingly numbered. Amazon put the cat among the pigeons...

03.10.2024 5

John Mcmanus

Someone needs to give Simeon Burke a barrister job for all our sakes

Whatever it is that Simeon Burke – the younger brother of Enoch – is trying to achieve, one suspects that dragging the Bar Council into the 21st...

20.09.2024 3

John Mcmanus

‘Dear Olga’: An open letter to a Greek minister from tourist-unfriendly Ireland

An imaginary letter from Minster for Tourism Catherine Martin to her Greek counterpart Olga Kefalogianni: Dear Olga, I hope you are well. I read...

13.09.2024 9

John Mcmanus

The dam burst when the Ryan brothers came forward, but what happened at Blackrock College was not unique

A table from the report of the scoping inquiry into sexual abuse at schools run by religious orders ranked schools by the number of allegations...

05.09.2024 2

John Mcmanus

Ireland’s rental market is so dysfunctional even the data does not make sense

Every three months Daft, the online lettings site, makes a contribution to the gaiety of the nation by publishing its rent survey. It is invariably...

30.08.2024 1

John Mcmanus

Children’s hospital: We are at the stage where we just want the builders out of our life

If you were building an extension, it’s most unlikely that you would hire a builder just to knock down the old extension and get the site ready and...

22.08.2024 1

John Mcmanus

Who would blow the whistle in corporate Ireland now?

On November 11th, 2016, then chief executive of Independent News and Media Robert Pitt met the company’s senior non-executive director, Jerome...

05.08.2024 2

John Mcmanus

Ireland’s low inheritance tax is part of a social bargain with its middle classes

You have only to peruse the personal finance pages of this newspaper to realise how deeply the middle-class obsession with inheritance runs....

26.07.2024 2

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Soft quitting: Why are so many workers emotionally disengaging from their jobs?

John Mcmanus

Why has Ireland joined the ICJ case against Israel? Is it simply that it’s the right thing to do?

John Mcmanus

As if the election campaign wasn’t tedious enough, brace yourself for ‘the counts’

John Mcmanus

Nothing focuses the mind like the thought of your boss seeing your photo on the Garda website

John Mcmanus

Half a million for a 33-page report on MetroLink? It may prove cheap at the price

John Mcmanus

Does Ryanair’s right to make money trump Dublin Airport’s obligation to obey the law?

John Mcmanus

We know a lot about the 40 homeless people who died in Dublin. So what are we going to do about it?

John Mcmanus

Norma Foley’s pouch plan acknowledges that phones cause harm. It may yet see her end up in history books

John Mcmanus

A battle is looming over remote work … and employers are likely to win

John Mcmanus

Someone needs to give Simeon Burke a barrister job for all our sakes

John Mcmanus

‘Dear Olga’: An open letter to a Greek minister from tourist-unfriendly Ireland

John Mcmanus

The dam burst when the Ryan brothers came forward, but what happened at Blackrock College was not unique

John Mcmanus

Ireland’s rental market is so dysfunctional even the data does not make sense

John Mcmanus

Children’s hospital: We are at the stage where we just want the builders out of our life

John Mcmanus

Who would blow the whistle in corporate Ireland now?

John Mcmanus

Ireland’s low inheritance tax is part of a social bargain with its middle classes

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