Somehow the Lithuanian language survived; today it is thriving. Yet Russia’s presence is palpable, and with the invasion of ...

Not that many people know that The Wizard of Oz, one of America’s most-loved films, is based on the arcane economic world of monetary policy. L Frank Baum’s novel is a disguised critique of the folly ...

Our trade surplus with the US is about $50 billion (€45 billion), or $73 billion of exports less $23 billion of imports. If you divide by our five-odd million population, this implies a trade surplus ...

Although it is particularly egregious, the canal episode isn‘t an isolated incident. GeoDirectory, the data company used by An Post, has estimated that 14,500 residential and commercial properties lie ...

For example, 90 per cent of American Boomers born around 1940 were earning more than their parents by the time they were 30. This figure fell to 50 per cent for those people born in 1980, who are ...

In the 1990s, when the Oslo peace process was in its incipient optimistic phase, I was the Israel economist for the large Swiss bank, UBS. International investment money, which had largely been absent ...

What a week. From Gaza to Canada, Greenland and Panama, not to mention tariffs, the death of USAID, the firing of government employees and the proposed heist of rare earths from Ukraine, one thing you ...

Plaques in these churches commemorate young Irishmen who died in faraway places, many of them building and defending the British empire. Young lads from Laois, Kilkenny, Cork and Cavan were killed in ...

This week two global reports underscored the extraordinary education revolution that has taken place in Ireland. We are now the most educated country on the planet, above Singapore and Switzerland ...

The CSO confirms that the average price paid for a home in the Republic in October was €429,212, up from €382,510 in October 2023. Even the ESRI, the forecasting institute that completely missed the ...

These are only two examples of how our legal framework allows for objections on a wide variety of grounds – ranging from procedural missteps to environmental concerns – which can easily lead to ...