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 ...

It’s not every day you find yourself in the Orthodox church where Alexander Pushkin’s great-grandfather was baptised. There is something calming about these dark, ornate and often windowless churches.

The yellow bricks of the Yellow Brick Road, represent the gold bars which paved the way to the Emerald City, the city of green – or greenback, the colloquial term for the dollar. Dorothy represents ...

Now that the election is out of the way, it’s time to get serious about housing. Ireland needs a major housing reset and this will discommode many. It has to. Otherwise there will never be real social ...

Once you start looking, the signs of an American recession are everywhere. The second-hand market is heating up, a classic pre-recession indicator. People are unloading luxury goods. Second-hand ...

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 ...

Let’s talk about the message, who gets to tell the story, who constructs the narrative and who frames the debate. The reason I’m ending the year with this column on who tells the story is, maybe like ...

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 ...

Economists, when talking about immigration, often blandly refer to “workers” or “talent”, but immigrants are people who expect services on a par with the citizens beside whom they are working in bars, ...