This year, the State will spend €15 billion-€20 billion on public procurement: buying stuff on your behalf from private ...

Could China – as it has done with cars, drones and phones – simply undercut the Americans, providing better AI models more ...

As England and Norway battle it out in the World Cup on Saturday evening, it is worth focusing on one economic story that ...

À La Mort Subite (Sudden Death) is one of the most celebrated cafes in Brussels and was a regular haunt of Jacques Brel, Belgium’s most influential cultural export. Singing theatrically in French, ...

They say that sporting talent is in the genes. Could it be that Harry Kane – the man who will captain England in next week’s World Cup – got his sporting ability from his great great grandfather, an ...

In May 1925, Robert Carney and Nora Moran left the tiny village of Aghagower on the foothill of Croagh Patrick, Co Mayo, the place where St Patrick had founded his first church in AD 441. Robert was ...

Does Ireland have the most educated bar staff and baristas in the world? The other night I got chatting to a young cocktail barman about obscure economic theory – Minsky’s “unstable equilibrium” to be ...

Is the attack on Iran a Suez moment for the United States? The Suez crisis in 1957 was the end of the road for Britain’s 200-year role as a global rule-maker. From then on, it became a rule-taker. The ...

Is Ireland the worst run country in Europe? How can we waste so much public money so quickly in so many ways? Has there ever been a country that has achieved so little from so much spending? Apologies ...

For many Irish people, 1990 is remembered as the year of the World Cup quarter finals. Cruelly, Ireland exited the Italia ‘90 competition following a jammy goal from Italian striker Totó Schillaci, ...