As the dominant force in recent history, Leinster will carry the target when the sides meet this Saturday night, because they are the team Munster must still measure themselves against.
Donald Trump's actions often amount to attention-seeking gestures, but sometimes they need careful consideration. His changed position on Ukraine to favour Russia comes with enormous consequences for the entire continent.
The Government has gambled that corporation tax receipts will rescue budget profligacy indefinitely – a gamble that could even pay off, at least for a while. But failures to limit public spending show a conscious absence of caution.
Japan borrowed cheaply to invest in riskier assets. Now the cost of that strategy is rising, threatening the world’s second-largest bond market and sending a warning to heavily indebted governments across Europe.
Attending business events can seem daunting, or its benefits uncertain. The right approach is “just do it”.
Maria Edgeworth argued that education and economic opportunity could ameliorate poverty. She carried her beliefs into novels, writes Diana Furchtgott-Roth, The Wall Street Journal.
Ireland’s EU presidency hosted its AI Summit in Dublin this week, bringing together big-name speakers from the tech industry, but just who exactly was this all for?
A new book explores the sequence of political events that surrounded the October 1976 murder of Garda Michael Clerkin by a suspected rogue IRA faction. Michael was my cousin.
As energy prices continue to rise, the IMF is the latest forum to explore the lack of economic crisis in the face of repeated assaults. It will take a few more shocks to know if economies have become durably more resilient.
Organised under Enterprise Ireland, with an accelerator programme delivered by Dogpatch Labs, the Government's new roadmap to support founders is short on the specifics of how it will roll out its vision and investment.
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