Jack Welch
Retired CEO of General Electric Jack Welch on the state of the Irish economy
Young victims of property tyranny
Tomorrow afternoon, Newstalk 106 will give away €40,000 to the winner of a very generous competition called Time to Move.
The money is earmarked for a deposit on a house. Not surprisingly, with this much cash involved, the competition has generated huge interest.
Achieving rock stardom the economical way
Did you ever want to be in a band? Of course you did. Every self-respecting teenager wants to front a tight four-piece, blasting out three minute wonders.
The middle-class myth of affluence
Have you noticed the size of fridges these days?
The “walk-in” fridge – where did that come from? Who is it for? Last weekend, I happened to be in the showhouse of a new estate.There was a huge gaping hole in the kitchen, through which you could have driven a Humvee. I asked the smarm-meister estate agent what was missing. He replied, indignantly: “Why, the fridge of course.”
Magic Bus generation holds key for Ryanair
The Ryanair Generation – remember them? Well, they’re still around.Those born in the late 1960s who had a “made for export” stamp for a birthmark and who emigrated in their hundreds of thousands in the late 1980s.They were the first of the Ryanair generation.







