Archive for July, 2007

Immigration is not just an economic problem, it is cultural, and the Irish government has to make strong choices as to what direction it wants to take when it comes to policies.

Do you ever feel that despite your salary rising over the past few years, you are being passed over financially? Or do you feel poor on a wage that you might have been very happy with a few years back? If so, you are not alone.

The inexorable fall of the dollar has exposed the inconsistency at the heart of Ireland’s economic policy.

If you are thinking about your open-walleted, pre-Christmas assault on Bloomingdales and Saks, the news this week from the international currency markets will lighten your mood.

Denis Desmond of MCD made one big mistake last weekend: he took on his own generation. The unfortunates who queued up in the mud, fought over tickets and ultimately flipped at the Barbra Streisand concert were not the kids who will tolerate almost any privations at Oxegen, they were their parents. These were the same age as Desmond, the promoter, and they won’t stand for this type of shoddy treatment.

Galileo was no saint and was partial to a fair bit of carousing.

But he was the father of experimental science, the sharpest thinker of his time, a great debater and a dismissive polemicist.

1977 was the year the Sex Pistols burst onto the scene, introducing Punk to an astounded public and reinforcing the generation gap by giving two fingers to the establishment.

The 7.55 am Ryanair FR442 takes off on time, bound for Liverpool. Out past the suburbs, over the giant steel and chrome motorway slug of commuting morning traffic on the M1 and straight across the Irish Sea. It is only thirty five minutes to John Lennon International which is not enough time for even Ryanair to sell you something.

Investors can now see through the Americans’ game. Since 2000, the US has been playing a big game of IOU with the rest of the world. They spend more than they save, and they’re asking us to bridge the gap.
On the day the Irish media was focused on the consummation of the Fianna Fail/Green Party…