John McManus
- Indexed articles, last 90 days
- 11
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- Sep 30, 2026
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- Jul 8, 2026
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Farewell to Irish real estate investment trusts. You wonât be missed (opens the original)
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The impending departure of Ires Reit from the Irish Stock Exchange will bring the curtain down on a failed experiment in harnessing private capital for public good. The other three real estate investment trusts (Reits) have already gone after being sold: Green Reit left in 2019 and Yew Grove Reit and Hibernia Reit departed in 2022. The only surprise is that Ires took so long and that anybody thought the idea would work in the first place. One of them was Michael Noonan, the finance minister who
We have US multinationals to thank for the weakness of the far right in Ireland (opens the original)
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Speaking to the New York Times over the weekend, the British-German journalist cum analyst John Kampfner sought to find a common thread in the surge of right-wing populism in Europe that culminated in another disastrous weekend for German centrists. None of the populist movements currently causing political upheavals across Europe are identical, but they have some things in common, says Kampfner. They are prospering in countries where people feel fundamentally insecure. âA population that feel
John McManus: Michael OâLearyâs use of the word ârapistsâ should worry Ryanair (opens the original)
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In November 2010, The Irish Times published a strident editorial under the headline âWas it for this?â. The piece castigated the then Fianna Fáil-led government for bringing the country to the edge of bankruptcy and the title was a direct reference to the WB Yeats poem September 1913 â a Leaving Certificate staple that rails against the demise of idealism and patriotism in fin de siècle Ireland. The key line in the editorial was âwe have now surrendered our sovereignty to the European
John McManus: Dear Power City, itâs over between us â and itâs you, not me (opens the original)
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I have been a loyal and satisfied customer of Power Cityâs Sallynoggin branch in Co Dublin for more than 25 years, but fear this hitherto mutually beneficial relationship has reached its conclusion. Recently I bought a fridge from your above-mentioned store and arranged for its delivery. Come the appointed hour, two delivery men turned up. Somewhat hot and bothered, it has to be said. It was a muggy day. I took one of them into the house and he had barely reached the end of the hall before ann
Why donât Irish people want to be Dublin Bus drivers any more? (opens the original)
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Dublin Bus has been forced to look as far afield as South Africa in its endless search for bus drivers. The State company has hired 200 drivers from the Rainbow Nation who will be appearing behind the wheel of a bus near you soon. Welcome and needed as these drivers undoubtedly are, their arrival raises several interesting questions. The first one being why are Irish people not interested in the job. The money is good. You earn â¬893 per week rising to â¬1,034 over six years. It is a permanent
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