A country run by engineers will build and accelerate into the future, while one run by lawyers will litigate and decelerate ...

Before you know it, everything is reduced to a morality match about the occupiers and the occupied so that landlords, ...

No matter what some people might argue, Ireland needs immigrants. This economy and society cannot survive without them. From healthcare to high-tech, construction to hospitality, the country would ...

In 1992, I moved into a flat on Parliament Street in Dublin city centre. Back then, the four residents of the refurbished 18th-century building were the only people living on the street. Yes, you read ...

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 ...

“Gradually and then suddenly,” is how Ernest Hemingway described bankruptcy in his 1926 novel, The Sun Also Rises. This is what often happens when people run out of money and options. At first money ...

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 ...

The dilapidated state of our cities and towns is an embarrassment. The sight of such urban vandalism should make us wince. With a homeless crisis, vacant buildings, no matter how outdated, are a ...

Demography is destiny. The single most important statistic in any developed economy is the population size. When planning for the future, the most critical forecast concerns the number of people in ...

It’s a Mad Max meets Trainspotting scene. The market district of Ottawa, the beautiful capital of the world’s second-largest country, home to the most polite people this side of Tokyo, offers a ...

God Save the Queen by the Sex Pistols, Fight the Power by Public Enemy or Smells Like Teen Spirit by Nirvana were three memorable generational anthems. In each case, the younger generation delivered ...