Back in June 2008 I wondered if the Elm Park development would someday be seen as "a symbol of everything that went wrong as the econo...

I've been looking for a robust defense of the euro, or more specifically, our membership in the euro following our financial/economic me...

Okay, call me nuts and I don't really believe that our government or Department of Finance folks have this sort of courage, but what if ...

I read Lucinda O'Sullivan's post on her uncle who died during WWI I wanted to read my July 2009 post on our search for my wife'...

John Henry is going to try to employ Moneyball tactics at Liverpool, according to today's Irish Independent . Henry is a hedge fund man...

Other than Fianna Fail TD's - and probably not all of them - I think I'm the only person who is unhappy (or at least uneasy) with ye...

MCD says tickets to Take That are €70.70 including booking fee . What does that mean? One their web site MCD says the tickets are availab...

I can understand a little how Lara Marlowe feels, but I'm too filled with hope to be worried that she's unhappy. Her idol has feet o...

Two days ago all seemed perfect with the world. On the morning of the 20th Met fans woke up to the possibility that the baseball gods had fi...

Cork Institute of Technology lecturer Tom O'Connor says that the "wealthy" have €121bn, which should be taxed. He seems unper...

I'm giving serious consideration to watching Ireland's Greatest tonight to see if David McWilliams can make any sort of case that M...

One of the worst aspects of the sort of boom times we're living in is the obvious waste of money among some public bodies. For example, ...

Guinness is about to undertake a big push for the American market, according to the Wall St Journal . Guinness Black is part of this push. M...

Jon Ihle in Sunday Tribune says Irish Nationwide Building Society is going all out to increase its share of the mortgage market for 2011. I...

I'm pretty sure no one in the family is talking to me. They were on Friday, I know that for sure because we all watched the Ireland matc...

I was pleased yesterday to learn that my impression of the author of The Cold Six Thousand was right on the money. I heard some of the Matt...

Declan Ganley back from the dead? He's been silent for the year or so since Lisbon passed on its second attempt. However, he's been ...

Matthew Elderfield says don't burn senior bondholders (Anglo) because of "current difficult funding position for both the Irish go...

"European family law expert Geoffrey Shannon" says we need new legislation because a court ruling yesterday means "unmarried ...

"Light touch regulation" is an expression I've heard a lot lately with regards to the banks disaster. My problem is that I can...