Dublin, the Irish capital, has this week been ranked among the worst cities in the world (ex-Asia) for traffic jams while being one of the ...

This week the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) issued data which showed that Ireland had the highest GDP (gros...

Latin America and the Caribbean is the most violent region on Earth and it accounts for roughly a third of global murders  even though it h...

Updated: The 1975 British referendum on membership of the then European Economic Community (EEC) was a concession by Harold Wilson, the Lab...

Despite jobs recovering to pre-Great Recession levels or higher, wage growth has been near-stagnation levels in several countries with work...

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The UK’s former Permanent Representative to the EU (ambassador), Sir Ivan Rogers, gave a speech on Brexit on 12 December, 2018, at the invi...

The agreement at the December 1 presidential dinner meeting of the US and China following the G20 summit in Buenos Aires, to freeze further...

Andrew Sentance , who was a member of the Bank of England’s (BoE) interest-rate setting committee in 2006-2011, this week posted on Twitter ...

Facts don’t change and there is no evidence that John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) ever wrote or said " When the facts change, I chang...

Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, meets with Henry Kissinger, former US secretary of state, at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, Ch...

Rupert Murdoch , the Australian immigrant, who founded the US cable industry’s conservative firebrand network in 1996, on Tuesday this week...

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...