Why finding a new Garda commissioner will be no easy task
February 10, 2024 5:41 amNovember’s rioting and violence in Dublin, along with arson attacks and blockades at locations around the country, have sent ominous... View Article
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The talent factory: Why the national U20 side is Ireland’s outstanding rugby team
February 10, 2024 5:08 amIt would be hard to find a more successful weekend in Irish rugby history than last weekend. Ireland ripped up... View Article
Back to the geoeconomic future: Ireland and the EU in the face of a new Cold War
February 9, 2024 5:35 amThe last three decades, spanning the end of the Cold War through today, mark the era of the peaking of... View Article
ICT and pharma thrive again as they shake off the slowdown hangovers
February 8, 2024 5:50 amRemarks by the chairman of the Fed, Jerome Powell, last week on the likely path of US interest rates are... View Article
Sean Keyes on investing: How much capital for housing, and where from?
February 7, 2024 5:58 amFirst, the question was over how much housing Ireland would need. After years of debate, the new consensus is that... View Article
We’re agreed there’s a housing shortage. So why are parts of the system limiting new homes?
February 6, 2024 5:50 amNews emerged last week that cabinet ministers were briefed that tens of thousands of additional new homes will be needed... View Article
Economic reality causes a brief ebb in the nationalistic tide: Rewinding the week that was
February 4, 2024 5:25 amAmid the apparently relentless rise of nationalism around the world, the past week has offered a modest rebalancing towards cross-border... View Article
Ireland lacerate France in Marseille with a historic win
February 3, 2024 2:40 pmMarseille has always been a difficult city to invade. The Notre Dame de la Garde is the centrepiece of the... View Article
How the DUP found the formula to resolve the problem it had created
February 3, 2024 5:10 amPeter Robinson may have retired as DUP leader eight years ago but the pragmatism that defined his activities as the... View Article
The DUP tiptoes back but English difficulty continues to threaten Irish calamity
February 2, 2024 5:56 amFor centuries, London felt threatened from the west. Fears that imperial Spain, republican France, Nazi Germany, or Soviet Russia would... View Article
