There can be no winner in scorched-earth stalemate
July 30, 2006
Like you, I’ve been watching the new Lebanon war with horror. After three weeks of fighting, there are still huge political and military questions that remain unanswered.
Why our life in the fast lane can’t stop without skidding
July 27, 2006
Quite how the world’s fastest growing economy can slow down rapidly without any collateral damage is beyond me.
Our cities are not flourishing, but beginning to wilt and die
July 23, 2006
Ireland is now two countries. The first country is recognisable. You know it. In fact, you were probably born there. It is relatively old, relatively prosperous and life moves at a reasonably easy pace. However, schools are closing down and there are few children around.
Let’s come to our census on immigration
July 19, 2006
Today sees the publication of the most important document the government will publish this year. In fact, it is the most important published in the past five years. The preliminary census results give us an accurate snapshot of the state of the nation.
Nuclear scaremongering must be replaced by hard thinking
July 16, 2006
Why is it an article of faith to be against nuclear power in Ireland?
How the prophets of boom may pocket profits of doom
July 12, 2006
In the early 1960s, the British establishment was rocked by a sex scandal involving the patrician, married, Minister for Defence John Profumo, and a young call girl, Mandy Rice Davis.
Ireland could learn a lot from Hamburg’s economic model
July 9, 2006
The docks in Hamburg are one of the most impressive industrial sights you are likely to see. I realise that only economic nerds like myself can get off on looking at docks, ships, cranes and the like, but here is the best place in Europe to see globalisation at work. Enormous Chinese tankers offload tonnes of computer equipment, while the docks themselves are a testament to the endurance of German engineering on its way out for export.
Legalising soft drug use is one way of breaking dealers’ grip on teens
July 5, 2006
For a nation that spends �400m more on stout than we do on the entire educational budget for our primary schools, the shock and horror being expressed this morning about an Oireachtas survey on drug use, is a bit hard to take
Our debt-financed lifestyle is just staving off the inevitable
July 2, 2006
They had never imagined this could happen to them, but it had. Both grandmothers were gossiping about another neighbour�s house that had been sold for a small fortune down the road, and both had been paid a visit by a smarmy estate agent who had, there and then, �valued� their homes at over �1 million.
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