The response to Cristiano Ronaldo's first football match in Dublin since 2009 underlined how little Irish football fans usually have to get excited about and why Stephen Kenny's mission to change must be all encompassing.
Boris Johnson will always change his policy to suit his needs and anyone can be sacrificed to save himself but the latest corruption stories in Westminster will not be forgotten by his MPs.
Brexit is about symbols. Dunkirk and Diana, Agincourt, and Jules Rimet, it’s just the latest sating of the Saxon herd. More practically, Brexit is a process that must be managed, not an event that can be left behind.
Capitalism has delivered untold wealth and living standard increases for billions. It has also left us with intertwining existential crises. Perhaps these aren’t unrelated.
Is Tesla's $1.2 trillion valuation a joke, like the cryptos Elon Musk promotes on Twitter? For it to be justified, two extraordinary things have to happen.
Given the tendency of Seán Quinn and members of his family to revise and reengineer history, it is little surprise that family members are now trying to airbrush it.
The Metaverse, as presented by tech giants like Facebook and Microsoft, is ugly and pointless. But there's something in the idea.
Everyone experiences doubts. It is just part of trying to build something. That is why talking to people who once held those same doubts – and overcame them – is so important.
Micheál Martin's comments at Bodenstown indicated that even a man as averse to a row as the Taoiseach recognises that the EU are now putting on the hard hats in discussions with the UK.
In what cases does it make sense for the state to own commercial businesses? When does it make sense to privatise? And how do Ireland's biggest 19 state owned enterprises fit in?
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