In contrast, Irish radicals who covet extreme social, political or economic change have (so far) found their aspirations ...

Half Julius Caesar, half Mattress Mick, Donald Trump has just declared economic war on the rest of the world, but what exactly did he say? Whisper it quietly, but in Ireland, given how bad things ...

From a macroeconomic perspective, maybe for the first time ever, the major problem in Ireland is a supply side problem: demand is surging, but supply is not responding. It is not a case of deficient ...

What a week to be thinking about the world and geopolitics! I’ve never seen anything like this. It’s not clear whether you, me or anyone else can stomach 3½ more years of this carry on. Recently this ...

Have you ever spent time in any Church of Ireland chapels around the country? Among other things, these isolated and now largely empty rural buildings are the resting place of a military culture that ...

When it comes to business, one of the best descriptions of the Irish I have ever heard is that we prefer to be liked rather than feared. Affable, reasonably generous, good fun and chatty, most of the ...

This week Fox News, that bastion of truth, claimed that violent crime in Dublin is surging. Armed with a ‘statistic’ that murders and assaults were up 114 per cent, the American broadcaster reported ...

We are heading into a trade war. That’s what the United States wants and that’s what the world will get. In 2025 it will become increasingly obvious that you can’t have a trade war without a capital ...

In the 1998 movie The Horse Whisperer, Robert Redford is a man with a special ability to communicate with horses and, using a combination of emotional intelligence and body language, put them at ease, ...

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 ...

Some people, perhaps those not so well versed in macroeconomics, perceive giveaway budgets and political auctions as signs of strength, reflective of underlying economic vitality; in reality, ...