John Barron

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The Pamela Scott store on Grafton Street in Dublin is among the shops affected. Photograph: Crispin Rodwell
Liquidators appointed to Pamela Scott and Richard Alan stores

The High Court has appointed provisional liquidators to two related companies that operate 13 Pamela Scott and Richard Alan retail stores across the R(...)

The Revenue Commissioners stressed that the security of its own systems had not been compromised in any way. File photograph: Joe St Leger
Revenue fears fraudsters tapped bank details of 3,000 taxpayers

Revenue fears that up to 3,000 taxpayers have given bank and personal details to fraudsters trying to steal cash by offering people fictional tax refu(...)

The biggest adopters of RPA currently include banks, insurance companies, utilities and telecommunications companies. Photograph: iStock
Revenue turns to ‘robots’ to update 20,000 taxpayer records

Revenue Commissioners has become the latest Irish organisation to turn to robotics to speed up mundane processes and free up staff to do more interest(...)

Louis Copeland at his premises on Capel Street in Dublin. Photograph: Frank Miller
Time of my life: ‘Working in a factory was a lesson in life’
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  • January 13, 2018, 06:00

The Time of My Life is a weekly column about a moment that changed someone’s life – for the better or the worse After national school I went to techn(...)

Donald Trump now: “Back in the 1970s and 1980s, with a shameless talent for self-aggrandisement untethered to fact, Trump was able to turn himself into a celebrity.” Photograph: Doug Mills/The New York Times
Maureen Dowd: ‘Trump could not live without the press. It is his crack’

Much has been made of Melania Trump’s absence from the capital. But our new president’s most intense, primal, torrid relationship is in full War of th(...)

US president Donald Trump may have pierced a malaise, as more millennials show interest in running for office. Photograph: Joshua Roberts/Reuters
Maureen Dowd: How Trump is making America great again

Listen up, haters. The brief reign of Donald the First has been completely head-spinningly nuts so far. But let’s stay calm and look for the silver li(...)

Republican front-runner Donald Trump: “Paul [Ryan] said to me that he has never seen anything like it because I’m a non-politician and I beat very successful politicians. He was really fascinated by how I won.” Photograph: Rob Kerr/AFP/Getty Images
Rare view of GOP ruins from Trump Tower

We are in one of those rare unharmonic convergences when reality is more absurd than satire. So I decided to dispense with satire and simply call Dona(...)