Maastricht, The Netherlands André Rieu created the Johann Strauss Orchestra in 1987 and began with 12 members, giving its first concert in...

The main facade of Government Buildings in Central Dublin The Irish population grew by 11.7% in 2011-2022 (535,000: 362,000 in 2016-2022) wh...

I published a post titled 'Robber Barons & Silicon Sultans: Rockefeller vs Bezos' on February 20. The original robber barons ...

According to the IMF (International Monetary Fund) economic globalization (or globalisation in British English) "is a historical ...

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Bloomberg commented "Nothing illustrates it better than the slide in the pound. It’s fallen from a high of more than $2 in 2007, just b...

This is my sequel to the article 'Leprechaun economics continue to distort Ireland's statistics ' which documents the continuin...

In July 2016 American economist Paul Krugman dubbed the annual revision of Irish 2015 GDP (gross domestic product) "Leprechaun economi...

Leabhar Mór Leacain / The Great Book of Lecan, written in 1397-1418 AD This page is a tribute to my parents Michael and Johanna Wall Hennig...

The Sumerian civilisation lived in southern Mesopotamia, situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system (in modern Iraq.) They settle...

In May 2022 the Irish Times unveiled a new website and app with a significant redesign of its digital platforms. Arc XP, a unit of the Wa...

In the European Union, large companies only account for 0.2% of enterprises but almost 36% of employment. In August 2021 the CSO (the Irish ...

In the span of about 40 years, the Digital Era has brought new technologies that have benefited people's lives on all continents. Howeve...

In recent times the words 'gaslight' and 'gaslighting' have become prominent in particular in the United States, aided by ...

Emmanuel Macron has become the first French president in 20 years to win a second term in office. At his victory rally on Sunday, April 24,...

The Financial Times's FT 1000 which was published in March 2022 with Statista, a research company, lists the European companies that ha...

Painting depicting the signature of the armistice in the railway carriage in the Forest of Compiègne, Eastern France, November 8. 1918. Behi...

Joachim von Ribbentrop, Foreign Minister of Germany; Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union supreme leader; and Vyacheslav Molotov, the Soviet Fore...

Last week, Putin, the Russian dictator, had his rubber-stamp parliament pass a law providing for sentences of up to 15 years in jail for th...

In 2020 Savills — the international real estate firm — gave Dublin a 14th ranking in a Top 20 of global tech cities. Last month Dublin was...

Last year Eurostat reported that in 2020, slightly more than a quarter of the EU’s GDP (gross domestic product) was generated by Germany (2...

Sylvia Beach meets James Joyce in her Parisian English language bookshop, Shakespeare & Company in 1922 (t he second poster in the back...

In December 2021 the European Commission published its annual review of business research and development — both in the Union and across the...

Lithuania has the highest rate of two-way traders; Ireland among lowest International goods trading is dominated by importers who just only ...

Cover cartoon in the July 1956 edition of the satirical magazine 'Dublin Opinion' — ‘Shortly Available: Underdeveloped Country: Unri...