Patrick Collison, chief executive and cofounder of Stripe with brother and cofounder John, president of Stripe. “Urgent” Government action is required to safeguard economic growth, the report said. However, this is largely driven by sectors of the Irish economy that are “dominated by foreign-owned multinational corporations”, Ahearne said. [ John Collison of Stripe: Ireland is going backwards. “Productivity growth is going to have to come from somewhere else, which calls for urgent action by Irish policymakers to boost Ireland’s start-up and scale-up landscape,” the economist said.

Source: The Irish Times March 19, 2026 06:30 UTC