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Matt Cooper: Trumpism may be mad and bad, but his overseas tax moves are not wrong

Ireland has taken advantage of a system that has allowed us to prosper at America’s expense

26.01.2025 10

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Matt Cooper: Galling that tech bosses are bending the knee in the presence of Trump

Maybe we should expect the US president-elect to float the idea of Ireland becoming the 54th state, if only to get rid of the trade balance in our...

12.01.2025 10

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Matt Cooper: Let’s hope Musk wins in his clash with the Maga mob over US immigration

The world’s richest man is a dangerous force in the next US administration and his influence in Europe is growing

05.01.2025 4

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Matt Cooper: Some of Ireland’s bravest and best business leaders left us in 2024

From Tony O’Reilly to David Power, some of Ireland’s top captains of industry died

22.12.2024 7

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Matt Cooper: Awarding World Cup to Saudi Arabia is latest disgracefully grubby act by Fifa

Leading Irish companies and state agencies have strong bases in Middle-Eastern country with its dubious human rights records

15.12.2024 9

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Matt Cooper: As the general election dust settles, what now for Fianna Fáil, Fine Gael and Sinn Féin?

The future looks very different for Simon Harris, Micheál Martin and Mary Lou McDonald than it did ten days ago

08.12.2024 2

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Matt Cooper: McGregor’s once-golden whiskey empire, Proper No. Twelve, loses its shine

Drinks giant Proximo cuts ties after the former MMA star’s very public civil trial

01.12.2024 6

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Matt Cooper: From start-up to national institution – 35 years of the Business Post

As Ireland began to open up, the Sunday Business Post succeeded in bringing business to a wider audience in an accessible fashion

01.12.2024 6

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Matt Cooper: Sleepwalking into crisis – Ireland’s election ignores global storm clouds

Ireland is highly vulnerable to attacks and we might be militarily neutral but we may not be spared

24.11.2024 5

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Matt Cooper: Michael O’Leary’s outburst on teachers put Fine Gael in tricky spot

There are votes to be lost by what the Ryanair boss said, but there are many who would fully agree with his comments

11.11.2024 3

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Matt Cooper: Elon Musk’s role in election was most cynical and effective ever exercise of media power

The Tesla and X owner played a critical role in Donald Trump’s victory and stands personally to be a major benificiary over the next four years

10.11.2024 1

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Matt Cooper: 20 reasons why I want Trump to lose

03.11.2024 2

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Matt Cooper: We cannot afford to scare major property investors away when we need so many new homes

Debate about housing in the forthcoming general election is likely to be fundamentally dishonest

20.10.2024 1

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Matt Cooper: Data centre limits and airport passenger cap are acts of self-sabotage

It is time for the state to show its ambition to grow the economy and remove the brakes which risk stagnation in core sectors

13.10.2024 10

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Matt Cooper: The larger than life story of Michael Smurfit, a true giant of Irish business

The tycoon, now aged 88 and the subject of a new documentary, was a significant, powerful and at times controversial figure in his day

06.10.2024 2

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Matt Cooper: Jim Mintern steps into CRH’s top role amidst speculation of US management shift

Company is by far the Irish business success story to beat all, being about three times the value of Ryanair

29.09.2024 7

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Matt Cooper: Amazon data centre debacle a worrying sign of what to come for Ireland

Last week it emerged that none of AWS’s planned €35 billion in cloud investment for Europe is destined for Ireland

22.09.2024 10

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Matt Cooper: Tax to the Future – just what will Apple’s relationship with Ireland be now

Apple could incur the costs of closing and moving its Irish operations easily, transferring its European headquarters elsewhere

15.09.2024 3

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Matt Cooper on Ryanair at 40: How its revolutionary rise broke glass ceiling for Irish firms

Michael O’ Leary’s hugely successful company competes with CRH and Smurfit Westrock for bragging rights as to who is Ireland’s best ever

18.08.2024 1

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Matt Cooper: No reason to retain cap on bankers’ pay – it is not 2009 anymore

AIB’s claims that it is losing its best, executives to rivals are valid and need to be listened to

10.08.2024 2

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Matt Cooper: A whopping €6m spent on INM report, yet so many questions remain unanswered

After six years of worry about potential damage to their reputations, Leslie Buckley and Denis O’Brien can breathe easy

04.08.2024 2

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Matt Cooper: Virgin Media’s US owner could go nuclear in response to RTÉ’s €725m bailout

A stinging statement his week mentioned ‘all options’ will be considered, but what will that mean in practice?

28.07.2024 2

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