The American republic is 250 years old today. On this auspicious anniversary, the story of Alexander Hamilton, the birth of ...

Hibernian Greenspan-ism was embraced from the Galway tent to the Central Bank’s bulletins, and celebrated as Ireland became ...

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 ...

In October 1986, the world’s two undisputed superpowers met at an unprepossessing house in a desolate Reykjavik park, facing the grey North Atlantic. Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev arrived ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...