Any successful redevelopment of Dublin city must incorporate a tax scheme to coax that money out of the deposits and into ...

Why would Dante equate Adam, an everyday opportunistic counterfeiter, with Sinon, the man who betrayed Troy? It seems ...

As befits a country at the crossroads of Europe, through which Napoleon, Charles X of Sweden, Hitler’s Wehrmacht and, of course, Stalin’s Red Army trampled, Vilnius is a city of ghosts. Before the ...

William McKinley, the victorious Republican candidate, received contributions worth more than $16 million (about $600 million in today’s money). McKinley’s chief fundraiser, Mark Hanna, raised more ...

Ireland is not alone in experiencing a housing crisis. Compared with our continental neighbours, anglophone countries can’t seem to build enough homes – at any price – quickly in places where people ...

In tune with our always-on age, the coming American recession will be live-streamed on Instagram. Every small change in consumer confidence and business sentiment will be videoed, shared, commented on ...

The country with the most Nobel Prize-winners in economics is calculating “protectionism” as the amount of exports to the US minus the amount of imports divided by that amount of exports. For the EU, ...

Marshall McLuhan, the Canadian media analyst declared “the medium is the message”. He was talking about an invention such as TV and politicians on TV in the 1950s. Whoever mastered the TV medium could ...

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 order to fix the supply side of the economy, the new government must, as a matter of urgency, sweep away bureaucratic, legislative and planning impediments which are constraining development. Land ...

One of the strangest aspects about the new programme for government is its failure to scrutinise population dynamics. On page 106 the programme states: “Ireland’s population is growing rapidly. By ...