The ruins of a large 5-storey factory building in open countryside in the townland of Knocknagarrane 4 kilometres south-west of the West Co...

The ship of fools (from a 1549 German woodcut) is an allegory, originating from Book VI of Plato's Republic — written in 360 BCE (Befor...

Fintan O’Toole, the chief political and arts commentator of the Irish Times newspaper, has made a stunning leap from November 2010 when he...

In 2018 46% of UK goods and services exports went to the EU while 2% went to Africa. According to the Financial Times in 2018, Chinese g...

Emmanuel Macron, French president, with Mario Draghi, ECB president Brussels, June 21, 2019 The German word ‘schuld' can mean either ...

This map has the 2020 data Among the 31 advanced (defined by the International Monetary Fund: IMF1) / rich countries of the 38 member Organ...

“Ireland is ranked among the most entrepreneurial countries in the world with increasing opportunities for budding MBA entrepreneurs,” acco...

Boris Johnson , a possible prime minister of the United Kingdom, wrote in a column in the Daily Telegraph in May 2016:

Germany had merchandise goods trade with 237 countries and territories in 2018 encompassing every region of the world — with partners that ...

For decades Ireland felt assured that it would maintain the tax advantage that was first provided in 1956 to lure mainly American foreign d...

IMD, the Swiss business school , released its World Competitiveness Rankings for 2019 this week with Singapor e at the top of ratings of 6...

OECD data published earlier this year showed show that corporate income tax remains a significant source of tax revenues for governments ac...

At current prices combined US-China GDPs of $21.3trn & $14.2trn is 41% of global GDP of $87trn in 2018. Using Purchasing Power Parities...

This week the Irish Times announced the publication of its ‘ Irish Times Top 1000 2019, the definitive guide to Ireland’s leading companies...

I was in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, on a day in July 1995 when the noontime temperature rose to almost 50 degrees Celsius. Saudi Arabia had its ...

In the Middle Ages, alchemists searched for the philosopher’s stone to transmute or transform common metals to gold. However, despite fail...

Ireland has two economies: the foreign-owned exporting sector that has driven economic transformation and its underperforming indigenous co...

Irish median income in 2017, adjusted for price differences called PPS , was at 13th in Europe (EU28 + Switzerland [2016], Norway and Icel...

  Google Books Ngram Viewer:  1950-2019 Last month the Financial Times headlined a report ‘ The British begin the Brexit blame game: PM a...

The FT’s 2019 annual list of the top 1,000 of Europe’s fastest-growing companies , was published by the Financial Times in March and this w...

The revenues of the top 5 US tech firms in 2018 exceeded the IMF's 2018 forecast for the gross domestic product (GDP) of Switzerland — ...

This year is the 500 th anniversary of the death in France of Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) , the multi-talented artist of the Italian Ren...

Hyper- globalization, boosted by the digital revolution and mobility of capital in recent decades, has enabled a small number of global fi...

Sunday Times - Ireland The Irish Times newspaper is involved in an international labour dispute with Paddy Agnew , an Irishman, who worked...