The backlash against Glastonbury performers Bob Vylan and Kneecap has reignited old battles over media bias, public speech, and the BBC’s uneasy role in navigating culture, politics and power.
Powerscourt Distillery may yet pull through, as might Fade Street Social and Captain Americas, but they’re now part of a growing cohort navigating the path between collapse and survival.
Cern membership should not be seen as a final milestone but rather as a launchpad to help deliver long-term economic advantage. Existing members have already shown the way.
Ireland could become a European hub for commercial pilot training — but only with bold policy action. A proposed €40 million state-backed loan fund would open aviation careers to hundreds, while revitalising regional airports.
With a mutual interest in circumventing US tariffs, Ireland and Canada are getting closer, an Irish trade mission to Toronto found – but a Trump-triggered recession could yet scupper efforts to boost business between the two.
Few journalists could hold the bigger picture and the human story in the same frame. Tommie Gorman could — and did. A year after his sad passing, it is worth remembering what he stood for in an increasingly contested world.
Bruised, short on rest, and outgunned on paper — but Kerry’s ability to thrive in unpredictability makes it the most dangerous kind of underdog.
With Ireland’s prosperity so tightly linked to US corporations and tax frameworks, looming changes in American fiscal policy pose a deeper, more immediate economic risk than global geopolitical tensions.
Veronica Guerin’s killing, 29 years ago today, exposed more than a single act of brutality — it revealed how organised crime, institutional silence, and civic complacency were eroding Ireland’s moral core.
Fiscal policies and inflation have changed the way investors consider long-term government debt. Who wins?
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