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

In Dante’s Inferno, the poet reserved one of his most ghastly punishments for the crime of forgery. Canto 30 of the Inferno describes the counterfeiter “Adamo” condemned to the eighth circle of hell, ...

Economically, these three countries are by far the most successful of post-Soviet Republics, anchoring themselves politically, commercially and militarily to the West, via the EU and Nato. I’ve yet to ...

This week two global reports underscored the extraordinary education revolution that has taken place in Ireland. We are now the most educated country on the planet, above Singapore and Switzerland ...

Average rents have hit all-time highs, especially in cities. Has the economy gone from hot to hotter? And what are we going to do about it? In the past couple of months the average new rent nationwide ...

The dysfunctional state of Ireland’s housing market was perfectly illustrated by the recent collapse of a derelict cottage on Dublin’s Grand Canal. As hard as it might be to believe, this property is ...

Cape Town is a cosmopolitan melting pot. A jumble of creeds, colours and languages, the city is a fusion where it’s impossible to define or establish what a true Capetonian “looks” like. A creation of ...

The idea of local authorities raising pennies from tourists to fund Dublin’s crucial infrastructure – an idea the Government seems not keen on – prompts deeper questions about how we raise money in ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...