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Ireland lockdown: 13 popular Dublin shops, restaurants and pubs that won't be back when restrictions end A number of businesses were forced to close permanently due to the devastating effects of the pandemic Lanigans Want the latest breaking news straight to your inbox? Sign up for our free newsletterInvalid EmailSomething went wrong, please try again later. Sign Up! When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Your information will be used in accordance with ourPrivacy Notice. Thank you for subscribingWe have more newslettersShow meSee ourprivacy ...

(Slate, approx 8 mins reading time) The entrepreneurial class has adopted the phrase with particular enthusiasm, as a battle cry for a startup culture in which failure has come to be fetishized, even valorized. Sir Richard Branson, that affable old sage of private enterprise and bikini-based publicity shoots, has advocated from on high the benefits of Failing Better. He breaks out the quote near the end of an article about the future of his multinational venture capital conglomerate, telling us with characteristic self-assurance that it comes “from the playwright, Samuel Beckett, but ...

WhatsApp I’ve no idea how it happened, and I don’t think it had much to do with me personally, but I am the parent of a child who loves people. I’m no misanthrope, yet my nearly three-year-old daughter’s intense attraction towards – and curiosity about – her fellow human beings is a source of ongoing wonder. She has always been a lively and loquacious child, even by toddler standards. It wasn’t until last summer, in that long early stretch of the pandemic, that the extent of her gregariousness first became obvious. This was peak ice-cream-eating season, and after dinner it becam...

Three decades of growth under threat as violence returns to Northern Ireland  Since the Good Friday Agreement Northern Ireland has won a hard-fought prosperity its companies are desperate to maintain It is almost four decades since Belfast made the DeLorean sports car immortalised in the Back to the Future movie franchise. But the recent scenes of burning buses and rioters hurling petrol bombs have handed Northern Ireland an uncomfortable taste of its own past. Unionist anger over post-Brexit trading arrangements combined with outrage over Sinn Fein leaders avoiding prosecution for attendin...

Claire Aiken I’M NOT sure there has ever been a policy which hasn’t actually seen the cold light of day that has been more lobbied, discussed, written about or broadcast than the implementation of corporation tax powers in Northern Ireland. The old clichés of six or seven years ago still ring loud, ‘it’s not the panacea but it’s a game changer’. Granted, legislation was passed at Westminster in 2015 to devolve powers to the Executive to support the undoubted potential for an uplift in foreign direct investment and of course enable the North to compete with the fine-tuned tax poli...