Reputations are very hard to establish but easy to squander. Donald Trump is squandering America’s reputation as a serious country. The US’s economic mix is now a unpredictable mess of unfocused tax ...

Somehow the Lithuanian language survived; today it is thriving. Yet Russia’s presence is palpable, and with the invasion of ...

Our trade surplus with the US is about $50 billion (€45 billion), or $73 billion of exports less $23 billion of imports. If you divide by our five-odd million population, this implies a trade surplus ...

Although it is particularly egregious, the canal episode isn‘t an isolated incident. GeoDirectory, the data company used by An Post, has estimated that 14,500 residential and commercial properties lie ...

These are only two examples of how our legal framework allows for objections on a wide variety of grounds – ranging from procedural missteps to environmental concerns – which can easily lead to ...

The second-hand market is heating up, a classic pre-recession indicator. People are unloading luxury goods. Second-hand clothes apps, such as RealReal, Depop and Grailed, are filling up with designer ...

Permeability – roads and pedestrian pathways should be highly interconnected, offering an efficient and varied way of traversing the neighbourhood, and focused on improving walkability, without dead ...

This week, the CSO provided us with a snapshot of a generation, Ireland’s so-called Gen Z, born between 1998 and 2012. The “Zoomer”“, as Americans call them, are a huge cohort, comprising in Ireland ...

Not that many people know that The Wizard of Oz, one of America’s most-loved films, is based on the arcane economic world of monetary policy. L Frank Baum’s novel is a disguised critique of the folly ...

After all, the objective of economic prosperity is to improve the day-to-day life of the citizen. That’s the name of the game. This means dramatic changes to planning and financing of homes, plus an ...

Top of the pile is, of course, Dublin’s MetroLink, which has been in the proverbial pipeline for years. The latest cost estimate for the project sits at €9.5 billion, which would eat up a large chunk ...