John Looby: The death of US exceptionalism
April 3, 2025 5:34 amIn the wake of the Allied victory, the United States dominated the global economy. The Soviet Union may have been... View Article
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Amanda Nelson: Without greater ambition, Ireland risks being left behind
April 2, 2025 4:27 amInfrastructural constraints from housing to power to water to transport to airports to sewage are rightly centre-stage as Ireland recalibrates... View Article
Housing, prices, and policy: The return of double-digit inflation in Dublin
April 1, 2025 5:17 amA decade ago, the Central Bank of Ireland introduced new mortgage market rules designed to prevent another bubble-and-crash episode in... View Article
The fight for free access to EU Laws: A legal battle over standards and transparency
March 31, 2025 5:50 amThe next time you find yourself having a pint, examine the glass. You might notice different markings on glasses –... View Article
The battle for homelessness landlord data: Rewinding the week that was
March 30, 2025 5:23 amOn June 28, 2022, I sent what should have been a routine freedom of information (FOI) request to Dublin City... View Article
Ian Kehoe: Michael Lowry and the picture that tells a thousand words
March 29, 2025 5:55 amSometimes, you have to sit back and remind yourself of the facts and the findings – and, when it comes... View Article
Paul Flynn: Kerry can embrace the chaos theory of new Gaelic football
March 29, 2025 5:36 amThere are many myths about Kerry football. The cuteness and the ‘yerra’ culture are often among the first things people... View Article
Denis Naughten: Ireland’s membership of Cern can be a catalyst for global innovation and peacebuilding
March 28, 2025 5:15 amAs Ireland’s application to join Cern, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, moves forward, it presents an exciting and transformative... View Article
Tom Lyons: Paddy Cosgrave has settled. But at what cost?
March 27, 2025 2:41 pmAnd so ends this sorry tale. Paddy Cosgrave blinks and settles at a cost of tens of millions of euro.... View Article
Big tech, bigger power: How Elon Musk and Silicon Valley are reshaping Trump’s Washington
March 26, 2025 2:34 amThe geoeconomic power map in Washington DC had started to shift well before the movers began offloading Donald Trump’s belongings... View Article
