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

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Although it is particularly egregious, the canal episode isn‘t an isolated incident. GeoDirectory, the data company used by An Post, has estimated that 14,500 residential and commercial properties lie ...

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 ...

This social surge could be felt in every corner of the country. In a sense, you could call this “bourgeois-isation” of much of the population the “Irish Dream”. The Americans had their American Dream ...

If we enmesh these principles into our thinking, there is no reason why Dublin’s city centre couldn’t become one of Europe’s most happening addresses in a reasonably short space of time. Cities ...

In Trump’s world, the world of attention grabbing, there’s only so much people will take, particularly if there is a ludicrous sense, like invading Greenland, of absurd theatre about it. Equally silly ...

This week, the CSO provided us with a snapshot of a generation, Ireland’s so-called Gen Z, born between 1998 and 2012. The “Zoomer”“, as Americans call them, are a huge cohort, comprising in Ireland ...

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 ...