Investors are betting on Trump not keeping his promises. We’d better hope they’re right
The bluster would be designed to appeal to the wider electorate; the reality would keep the Dow Jones average heading higher, ...
There’s nothing magical or airy about artificial intelligence, it’s a machine of exploitation
Within this system, our country plays a crucial and disproportionate role: a dense network of data centres and server farms ...
Mercosur will not be the cataclysm for Irish farmers they predict
There are always winners and losers in any free trade agreement, but is this accord to be brought down at the behest of the ...
Ireland weather update: Met Éireann forecasts ‘significant snowfall’ as orange warnings extended to 10 counties
A 24-hour orange snow and ice warning comes into effect from 5pm on Saturday for Carlow, Kilkenny, Laois, Offaly, Wicklow, ...
Coolera-Strandhill’s Seán Taylor: ‘I’ve introduced a few Gaelic football drills to Harlequins training sessions’
Full-back for the Sligo champions commutes weekly from his job at the London rugby club to train with the All-Ireland ...
The United States needs the world more than it thinks, and that’s no bad thing
The flaw in the Maga rhetoric about how the United States is going to do this and that to its foes is that the US is the ...
Anne Enright: ‘I am a proud Dubliner, born and reared. I spurn these lyrical types yearning for the rural’
The map gives way to previous maps as the decades swop and speak to each other. A tree grows and is not chopped down. Some of ...
Paul Williams: ‘Organised crime could not thrive without the connivance of so-called law-abiding society’
The crime writer and journalist has penned a personal account of his career covering the underworld, and he describes it as ...
50 people to watch in 2025: From film and music to arts, activism, sport and more
As a new year gets into gear, here are the artists, entrepreneurs, activists and musicians set to shake things up ...
We need to see an explosion in house building and new ideas this year
In other words, what is needed is an explosion in house building – and then for those numbers to be sustained. A step change ...
Rivals presents itself as escapism from economic depression but really it’s a recession indicator for our bleak times
We feel skint because we are skint. When financial instability is the norm, the fetishisation of wealth is inevitable’ ...
‘He can get into a horse’s head’: The rise, scandal and reinvention of Gordon Elliott
School dropout from Co Meath has become an extraordinarily successful trainer, recovered from a self-inflicted scandal and ...