Michael D. Higgins was re-elected on Saturday as President of Ireland to a second 7-year term. In the election, 40% of the voting age popu...

Despite the gulf in the sizes of the economies of the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom, they have similar economic structures — i...

This week The New York Times in a major investigation revealed that the Trump family led by Fred Trump (1905-1999) was a criminal enterpr...

Dublin will run out of rezoned residential land in 4 years according to an official of the Dublin City Council. The city of Paris is divi...

Trinity College, Dublin (TCD), founded in 1592, has announced an aspiration for a “new Innovation District, with a new university campus ...

STEM is an acronym for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics and because of the importance of innovation for growth in a modern...

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) in its ‘ World Drug Report 2018 ’ published in June 2018, reports that 275m people wor...

Last week data on jobs in the Irish economy showed that total employment in June 2018 had exceeded the peak property bubble total of 2.252...

Top 10, World Happiness Report, Better Life Index and Social Progress Index  Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) , the English lawyer, scholar, wr...

Chancellor Angela Merkel met Spanish prime minister Pedro Sánchez in Andalusia, Spain, August 11, 2018 Photo: Bundesregierung/Bergmann Th...

The widespread ignorance about the great social and economic advances in the world coupled with misinformation on domestic trends, can trig...

BBC report August 15, 2018:   How housing has divided the young   I have discussed the impact of planning restrictions on property prices ...

In the early heady months after the surprise June 23, 2016 vote of 33.6% of UK adults* to leave the European Union, Boris Johnson, a putati...

Bering Sea ice at record low — April 29, 2013 - April 29, 2018 Less ice formed in the Bering Sea during the winter of 2017-18 than in any ...

To mark World Beer Day on August 3rd, Eurostat reported that in 2017, over 41bn litres of beer containing alcohol were produced in the Euro...

Sky Data poll: Public turning against Brexit — British public opinion has shifted sharply against Brexit, according to a new Sky Data poll....

The average Irish housing size is the lowest of the rich countries of the European Union despite one of the lowest population densities on ...

Ireland needs to take several radical measures to tackle the current housing crisis but a minority government would struggle to enact them....

This week it was reported that the US government paid more than $77,000 to President Trump’s Scottish golf resort ahead of his stay there l...

Irish real [consumer price index (CPI) inflation-adjusted) house prices rose by 175% in 1971-2016 (45 years); British prices rose by 405% i...

*Just one-third of the UK voting age population voted for Brexit and it was crazy that David Cameron, prime minister 2010-2016 , did not pu...

Ireland has had a positive environment for business for many decades as successive governments sought to make the country an attractive loc...

Ballyheigue, situated on the County Kerry coast between the mouth of Tralee Bay and the Shannon River Estuary, was th...

Click image for original size In 2006 Finfacts reported that Xsil, an Irish firm producing innovative laser micro-machining systems to the...

FT Whitehall editor James Blitz looks at the mounting frustration of leading UK companies  — Siemens and John Lewis  — over the Brexit pr...