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David McwilliamsThe Irish Times |
The gothic cathedral of St Peter, perched on top of the walled citadel of Geneva’s old town, is completely devoid of ornamentation. No candles or...
The gothic cathedral of St Peter, perched on top of the walled citadel of Geneva’s old town, is completely devoid of ornamentation. No candles or...
It is easy to dismiss last week’s referendum result as an inconsequential one-off, based on an unimportant issue, foisted on the people by an...
Bitcoin is back in the news. The gyrations of its price are noteworthy because they create extreme excitement for its enthusiasts. These people...
RTÉ is going out of business. Businesses go bust all the time. Technology can blindside a legacy business, or bad management, but sometimes it’s...
Did you know that this year is the 40th anniversary of the opening of the Dart line? How time flies. In 1984, Irish GDP was €20 billion; today...
When you look around Ireland and take in the fiasco of the Children’s Hospital, the saga that is the Dublin Metro or the inability to provide...
This week the European Copernicus Climate Change Service revealed that the world just experienced the warmest January on record. The average...
In November 1942, Europe was in dire need of a bit of good news. It came from Egypt, where after three years of defeats, retreats, setbacks and Nazi...
By any reliable economic measure, Joe Biden should be strolling in the USA. The US economy posted more than 3 per cent growth in the final quarter of...
A battle between the past and the future is playing out in Dún Laoghaire. Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, which has done an amazing job at...
We all know that Ireland’s demographic history is one of the most unusual and tragic in Europe. The collapse of the population from the early 19th...
O’Connell School in Dublin 1 has produced its fair share of taoisigh, sports people and journalists, writers and poets, but maybe few are as...
I’m looking at one of the last original Gutenberg Bibles. It’s beautiful. There are only 48 left in the world and only 12 remaining on animal hide...
Last week, the column spoke about the possibility of a 2nd Irish Republic. The idea is that this Republic has run its course and, like the French did...
Does Ireland need a second Republic? France, the home of all things Republican, has had five of them. When the French feel that the structure of their...
In 1943, Alice O’Connor, the married name of the writer better known as Ayn Rand, published The Fountainhead in New York. Rand, born Alina Rosenbaum...
The famous opening scene of Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, shows a group of apes jostling for position. One ape discovers a bone, a femur,...
In economics, we are used to talking about casualties of high interest rates, companies that go bust under the pressure of debt, people who default...
Demography is destiny. Population has been an overarching metric in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over the last century or so. Today, there are...
Demography is destiny. Population has been an overarching metric in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict over the last century or so. Today, there are...
Many years ago, when working in a large London bank, a few days around Christmas before we broke up for the holidays some alpha male fathers brought...
When you emerge cityward from the Port Tunnel, you face a brick wall. Dublin’s waterfront view is a high grey wall, topped with rusty barbed wire to...
Do you want a lesson in what happens when the vicissitudes of electoral politics hi-jack economic planning, putting the State on a short-term...
Last Sunday evening, I strolled from Dublin Castle (that’s hosting the brilliant Festival of History) down the Liffey via Ringsend to the 3Arena....
Last week I walked around Vienna, a city that doesn’t have a housing crisis. One thing that struck me was the care with which the old buildings are...
In November 1898, 125 years ago this year, Gustav Klimt and a number of other Viennese artists opened the Secession building, the fulcrum of their new...
Is it time to discuss policy on immigration to protect liberal, open, tolerant Ireland? Regular readers may be aware that as the grandson of...
The wing is a lonely position in rugby. Playing out on the windswept touchline in a schools cup final in Lansdowne Road was a terrifying experience....