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A Valeo test vehicle on Dublin’s M50: Self-driving vehicles use video and radar to feed data to the self-driving programmes.

Irish potholes and poor road markings great test for self-driving cars

Transport & Tourism
December 7, 2019, 06:01

Cantillon: Auto industry looks to take vehicles to next level with tough-driving trials

Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe: set out targets to run budget surpluses and reduce the State’s debt in the coming years. Photograph: Sam Boal/RollingNews.ie

Watchdog warns of using ‘windfall taxes’ to fund public services

Economy
Peter Hamilton
December 7, 2019, 05:56

Chartered Accountants Ireland revokes Sean FitzPatrick’s membership

Government and corporate debt market yields fell sharply this year, hitting pension schemes’ returns from bonds.

Effort to derisk pension schemes has come back to haunt them

Financial Services
December 7, 2019, 05:50

Surge in stock markets of little benefit to schemes as they cut exposure to equities

Ryanair’s Michael O’Leary pictured at the Four Courts. Photograph: Collins

Collision course: Ryanair executives at loggerheads in court battle

Transport & Tourism
Barry O'Halloran
December 7, 2019, 05:24

Contract terms and conditions and a share option snub are at the heart of the courtroom clashes between Michael O’Leary and Peter Bellew

Paschal Donohoe: eyeing budget surpluses. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw for The Irish Times

Election avoided, but Donohoe still drawing battle lines

Economy
Joe Brennan
December 6, 2019, 15:24

Minister’s plan for State finances involves doing bare minimum

Tony O’Reilly jnr’s decision to resign from Providence Resources after 14 years ended an era of involvement in Irish plcs for his family. Photograph: Cyril Byrne

Day of reckoning Providence as Tony jnr steps down

Energy & Resources
December 6, 2019, 15:14

End of an era as O’Reilly name departs stock exchange list

President Donald Trump meets with French president Emmanuel Macron at Winfield House in London on Tuesday. Photograph: Al Drago/The New York Times

Another trade war is brewing, this time between France and the US

Economy
Lara Marlowe
December 6, 2019, 14:50

Trump targets France over ‘discriminatory’ digital tax

Mission to Mars: No humans need apply

Innovation
Neil Briscoe
December 6, 2019, 10:52

Nasa’s AI expert Steve Chien says Captain Kirk can stand aside, as it will be robots that will boldly go where no man has gone

PEL Waste Reduction Equipment founder and chief executive Tommy Griffith: “Waste is always an issue.”

Mayo engineer is crushing it in the waste business

Manufacturing
Dominic Coyle
December 6, 2019, 05:40

Tommy Griffith's has created an international engineering success by developing bottle crushers and solar-powered street bins

Shane McCarthy, Sandboxx military app marketeer in Washington DC: he says the city’s strong links with Ireland work in his favour

‘In the US, no one cares that I’m only 27 or what school I attended’

Work
Barbara McCarthy
December 6, 2019, 05:36

Wild Geese: Shane McCarthy is chief marketing officer for military social media platform Sandboxx

A WeWork common space in New York. The traditional practice of automatically putting people together in a central hub is coming under increased scrutiny. Photograph: Cole Wilson/The New York Times

How big businesses can benefit from using coworking spaces

Work
Olive Keogh
December 6, 2019, 05:30

More companies see flexible space as a way to be agile, lure talent and cut costs

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Insurance industry’s ‘compo culture’ spin is the dodgiest claim of all

Financial Services
Mark Paul
December 6, 2019, 05:27

Data shows supposedly widespread culture of fraud is untrue

Chris Ross is managing partner at John McKee Solicitors

‘Could people not see the bigger picture of how this would impact on North?’

Media & Marketing
Amanda Ferguson
December 6, 2019, 05:26

Brexit Proof Q&A: Chris Ross, John McKee Solicitors

“If the price of damaging emissions is not fully reflected in the prices we pay, the unconscious tendency will be to overconsume what is harmful, and underinvest in the greener alternatives.”

John FitzGerald: Tackling climate change a high-wire act

Economy
John FitzGerald
December 6, 2019, 02:47

Policy changes could help shift the behaviour of businesses and households

Traffic congestion applies costs to the economy, and to our lives. Photograph: Dave Meehan

How much does sitting in traffic every day cost you?

Economy
Cliff Taylor
December 5, 2019, 10:55

Smart Money: The graphs that show how traffic congestion on the M50 and elsewhere eats into your finances, and your time

Governor of the Central Bank of Ireland Gabriel Makhlouf. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw/The Irish Times

Makhlouf right to protect borrowers and banks from themselves

Economy
December 5, 2019, 08:08

Cantillon: Governor’s comment that rules ‘are not going away’ must be welcomed

Patricia King: she has urging unions dealing with private sector employers to seek pay increases of between 3.5% and 4.5% next year. Photograph: Alan Betson

Battle for pay increases set to take centre stage in 2020

Economy
December 5, 2019, 08:06

With exchequer revenue €3.5bn higher than a year ago, Paschal Donohoe will do well to see off higher public sector pay claims

‘When companies are small, they can be more flexible and responsive, whereas when they grow, they become a pyramid where information is passed from bottom to top and decisions from top to bottom. In the internet era, this is too slow,’ says Haier’s chief executive, Zhang Ruimin

How Haier morphed from tiny operation into global corporation

Innovation
Frank Dillon
December 5, 2019, 05:35

Far-sighted Chinese giant claims 10.5% share of world home-appliance market

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