For the uninitiated, Dubai, the second city of the UAE after Abu Dhabi, can be both fascinating and grotesque. It is ...

If young people cannot secure jobs commensurate with their level of education, their ambitions will be dashed, creating ...

The Suez crisis was the end of the road for Britain as a global rule-maker. The US is setting itself up for a repeat ...

The fuel protests show that a certain sector of workers still has the capacity to bring the country to its knees. In a world where many workers complain that their power has been eroded, last week was ...

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 ...

Many associate the Easter Rising with Sinn Féin, but in terms of its planning, organisation and execution, the Rising was an Irish Republican Brotherhood operation, aided and abetted by James Connolly ...

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, ...

In 1887, the British parliament passed the Merchandise Marks Act to protect British industry from knock-off products which purported to be made in the UK but were in fact made cheaper – and in many ...

What a week. Seven days of relentless Israeli and US bombing, the assassination of the head of state and other potential leaders of Iran, the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, the suspension of most ...

It’s keep-the-head-down time. In the week when Donald Trump’s latest hissy fit has led to the imposition of 10 per cent tariffs across the board, no country wants to appear on his mercantilist radar ...

The one thing that successive Irish governments want to avoid is having to make a choice between Europe and the US. As long as the US is guardian of the Grand Bargain, Ireland can be European and ...