Why would Dante equate Adam, an everyday opportunistic counterfeiter, with Sinon, the man who betrayed Troy? It seems ...

As befits a country at the crossroads of Europe, through which Napoleon, Charles X of Sweden, Hitler’s Wehrmacht and, of course, Stalin’s Red Army trampled, Vilnius is a city of ghosts. Before the ...

The country with the most Nobel Prize-winners in economics is calculating “protectionism” as the amount of exports to the US minus the amount of imports divided by that amount of exports. For the EU, ...

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 ...

In order to fix the supply side of the economy, the new government must, as a matter of urgency, sweep away bureaucratic, legislative and planning impediments which are constraining development. Land ...

In tune with our always-on age, the coming American recession will be live-streamed on Instagram. Every small change in consumer confidence and business sentiment will be videoed, shared, commented on ...

If we enmesh these principles into our thinking, there is no reason why Dublin’s city centre couldn’t become one of Europe’s most happening addresses in a reasonably short space of time. Cities ...

This week, the CSO provided us with a snapshot of a generation, Ireland’s so-called Gen Z, born between 1998 and 2012. The “Zoomer”“, as Americans call them, are a huge cohort, comprising in Ireland ...

William McKinley, the victorious Republican candidate, received contributions worth more than $16 million (about $600 million in today’s money). McKinley’s chief fundraiser, Mark Hanna, raised more ...

Ireland is not alone in experiencing a housing crisis. Compared with our continental neighbours, anglophone countries can’t seem to build enough homes – at any price – quickly in places where people ...

In London on Thursday night I was chatting to a number of prominent British financial journalists. The Apple/Irish decision was, of course, top of the agenda. The contrast between both countries’ ...