Education is one of the most powerful tools for giving students an even chance – but more ambition is needed to tackle the class divide in numbers progressing to college

Next year may bring good news but many of the concerns of 2021 will not have gone away

Think tank’s warning comes amid the emergence of Omicron variant of Covid-19

Rating agency predicts 5% rebound driven by pent-up savings and investments

Jobless rate falls but agency says this largely reflects return of temporary laid-off workers

Government’s Commission on Taxation and Welfare launches three-month process

Funding pensions and healthcare will dwarf pressures associated with Covid, report says

Podcast: Global deal to make it harder for multinational companies to avoid taxation

Irish-owned multinationals had an 8% effective tax rate in 2019

Firms making less than €750m a year will be taxed at previous rate of 12.5%

As State set to accord with OECD 15% rate for multinationals, only quarter of voters agree

Taoiseach says lower tax rate was never the key point in attracting overseas investment

Seen & Heard: KBC HQ in Dublin to be sold, electricity capacity, and Paddy whiskey plan

Interview: Bernard Birkett, West Pharmaceutical Services

Michael McGrath says outline of deal not entirely clear at this stage

Frontloading tax now could mean steeper fall-off in receipts in years to come, economist warns

OECD says employees here add $109.6 to value of economy every hour they work

Risk to public finances as foreign multinationals account for 82% of corporate tax take

Union says secondary teachers are enduring ‘enormous and unsustainable workloads’

Isme also says OECD plans for standardised corporation tax rate of 15% are ‘inevitable’

Lobby group asks Government not to increase personal taxes for rest of its term

Australia ranked last among OECD countries for full vaccination as it struggles for doses

Donohue objecting to global minimum tax for multinationals under agreement

Major UN, OECD study pinpoints livestock production as major problem areas

Minister for Finance says FDI will continue to be part of the Irish economic model

Budget planners have factored in loss from 2022 onwards says Minister

Planet Business: Krispy Kreme, inflation fears and taking a dip in a 10th-storey pool

Brussels pinpoints ‘macroeconomic imbalances’ and urges spending be kept in check

Minister for Finance expresses reservations about global tax harmonisation proposals

Consumption of more than one unit for women and 1.5 units for men a day causes damage

Fresh formula would significantly erode corporate tax base

Decision to scrap charges will not be reversed despite OECD advice – Ryan

Review of State’s environmental record warns of post-pandemic rise in emissions

With Covid-19, there has never been a better time for children to learn outside

EU Commission will ‘continue to monitor Amazon’s behaviour’ on corporate taxation

We may see a mixed effect, with some sectors booming and others badly hit

Economy still shrank by the most in more than three centuries as a whole, data shows

Employers’ group downgrades economic growth forecast on foot of extended lockdown

OECD’s Andreas Schleicher says Ireland needs to modernise its ‘20th-century’ system

Paris-based think tank says jobless rate across OECD was 6.8 per cent in January