The united Ireland conversation involves listening to people who don’t agree with you and whose advice you don’t want to hear
John FitzGerald
John FitzGerald columns
Experience in UK and with Eir is that private owners don’t invest in networks but just saddle companies with debt and take dividends
Regardless of the terms of disengagement by UK in any unification, there is no magic economic pill to bring NI up to standards down South
Exodus of foreign-owned banks after the crash has been costly for Ireland's bank customers and bad for the wider economy
Germany’s experience is relevant to Ireland given the sharp differences that followed the publication of a report on unification costs
For a highly mobile young population, house purchase is not always a suitable short-term option
John FitzGerald: Children born today can expect to live up to 30 years longer than their great grandparents
Reducing Ireland’s beef herd makes more sense than a huge reduction in profitable dairy cattle
Ireland is at full employment, but building industry now falls in number of Irish workers
EU tax on aviation fuel will incentivise airlines to be more environmentally friendly while retaining links with families
Playing around with the books won’t get Europe’s biggest economy out of its downturn
Compared to the Republic, Northern Ireland has actually reduced greenhouse gas emissions by almost a quarter since 1990
Officials on both sides of the Border have been complicit in failure to deliver the necessary but controversial overground interconnector
On the Government side, the agreement will not break the bank
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