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Una Mullally of the Irish Times said this week that "Dublin is a dirty, smelly, sticky old town once again." I was back in Irela...

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Their parents fled Africa as refugees in the 1960s. Now they want to ship migrants to Rwanda Rishi Sunak, the British Prime Minister,  Priti...

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

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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...

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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...

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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...