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Take the biggest issue facing Ireland right now – the housing market. With data and the right model of what drives house ...
Immigration can drive a class wedge into an already class-sensitive society. For some of the working class, immigrants are ...
Venmo founder Bryan Johnson and other tech billionaires have set their sights on immortality. Is this as risible as it seems?
The Dublin City Taskforce has unveiled a blueprint to rejuvenate the capital’s centre, calling for €750 million to €1 billion in new investment and identifying “Ten Big Moves” to restore safety, ...
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 ...
We witnessed in the White House the “Doonbegisation” of Irish foreign policy, a nostalgic version of Oirishness – half Five Lamps, half Five Iron – a dreamy place that resides in the head of the US ...
At the start of the week there was a fear, not unreasonable, that tariffs might be applied to individual countries based on their specific trade surplus with the United States – a measure, in Trump’s ...
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, ...
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 ...
There’s nothing we can do about Donald Trump’s mercantilist economics but there are plenty of things we can control within the domestic economy – and this crisis is too good an opportunity to miss.