Ireland is moving from a democracy to ‘vetocracy’, where governance is paralysed because someone, somewhere holds a veto ...

A country run by engineers will build and accelerate into the future, while one run by lawyers will litigate and decelerate ...

Half Julius Caesar, half Mattress Mick, Donald Trump has just declared economic war on the rest of the world, but what exactly did he say? Whisper it quietly, but in Ireland, given how bad things ...

Let’s talk about the message, who gets to tell the story, who constructs the narrative and who frames the debate. The reason I’m ending the year with this column on who tells the story is, maybe like ...

From a macroeconomic perspective, maybe for the first time ever, the major problem in Ireland is a supply side problem: demand is surging, but supply is not responding. It is not a case of deficient ...

The dilapidated state of our cities and towns is an embarrassment. The sight of such urban vandalism should make us wince. With a homeless crisis, vacant buildings, no matter how outdated, are a ...

No matter what some people might argue, Ireland needs immigrants. This economy and society cannot survive without them. From healthcare to high-tech, construction to hospitality, the country would ...

Architecture is historical evidence and the stout, self-confident Victorian buildings lining Melbourne’s broad avenues confirm this is a metropolis that has been dynamic for a long time. In 1851, a ...

Kamala Harris’s father, Donald Harris, an eminent economics professor at prestigious Stanford University in California, was described by the Stanford Daily in 1976 as “a Marxist scholar . . . too ...

Economies are on my mind: Australia, where I’m on a book tour; Argentina, which just voted again for Javier Milei’s party; and Ireland where we elected a president who could be described as hard-left.