On Friday morning the Germans threw the constitutional cat among the europhile pigeons by announcing that the ECB’s plan to save the bond markets of peripheral Europe, including Ireland, was unconstitutional. Yes, you read it right: any move by the ECB to save...
Do you remember the Undertones My perfect cousin’ about a perfect, mollycoddled cousin who was the apple of his mother’s eye and got on the nerves of all the other less-than-perfect cousins? Every family has one, although I suspect the Irish weakness for...
Imagine the real economy in a pair of tight bottle green flairs, the likes of which you could hide a six back of Harp up. Imagine the perm, the bomber jacket and a luxurious ‘tache’. It is pure 1970s. The soundtrack is somewhere between the Bay City Rollers and Rory...
THE “red eye” flight, 7am Dublin to Dusseldorf, is half-empty. You can sense from the resigned, matter-of-fact way most of the passengers behave, that the people — mainly men — are veterans of this route. However, Irish business people in...
On Friday night, I dropped my daughter off at Wezz in Donnybrook for the first time. This is a traumatic experience, but one which many thousands of Dublin fathers have either gone through, or will have to go through in years to come. Indeed, I myself went to Wezz...
On the day that’s in it, let’s examine some of the big economic and financial questions that will impact on our lives in 2014. Will the economy continue to recover slowly or will it slip back? The short answer is that the economy should keep moving along...
