Having never met John Collison it is hard to know what to make of the decision by the technology billionaire to enter the national debate on our inability to get things done. [ John Collison of Stripe: Ireland is going backwards. John Collison is not his brother’s keeper but sticking with the biblical aphorisms: by his friends shall you know him. Taoiseach Micheál Martin with Stripe co-founder John Collison at the opening of Stripe's new Dublin Headquarters earlier this year. But he seems to have missed a fundamental truth about Irish politics which is that the last thing a successful Irish politician wants is to be responsible for anything.

Source: The Irish Times October 29, 2025 16:32 UTC