Plunge in Irish rental residential properties raises prices
On February 1, 2023, it was estimated that the number of housing units for rent in Ireland was just over 1,000. This plunge in the market has resulted in pushing up the rents of the existing stock of...
View ArticleChildren of 1960s refugees/asylum seekers to UK push for migrants to return...
Their parents fled Africa as refugees in the 1960s. Now they want to ship migrants to RwandaRishi Sunak, the British Prime Minister, Priti Patel, the former Home Secretary in the Johnson...
View ArticleFT 1000: 7th ranking of Europe’s fastest-growing companies 2023
Ireland has no native-born firms in the tech categories. The only entry is in the Food & Beverage category: Bevcraft Group (181), a specialist process and packaging business. Last December it...
View ArticleSuccess of Irish economy masks the extent of underlying weakness
The International Energy Agency was set up in the wake of the 1973-1974 oil crisis to help industrialised countries to respond to major oil shocks — this year the head has warned that the “energy...
View ArticlePutin critic gets 25 years evoking Gulags and useful idiots
Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza, who was accused of treason and spreading "false" information about the Russian army, stands inside a defendant's cage during his sentencing at the Moscow...
View ArticleIrish Celts are as real as Leprechauns
In Ancient Greece Κελτοί (Keltoí) was the word used for "Barbarian" (non-Greek-speaking people, including Egyptians, Persians, Medes, Phoenicians, and tribes in Europe, emphasised their otherness....
View Article"Dear dirty Dublin"— Air pollution low among Europe's capitals
Una Mullally of the Irish Times said this week that "Dublin is a dirty, smelly, sticky old town once again." I was back in Ireland in May and I stayed in the city centre south of the River Liffey for...
View ArticleThe misplaced fascination with the RMS Titanic
The Titanic leaving Belfast on April 2, 1912The sinking of the RMS Titanic in April 1912 has been in the news again and the US Coast Guard has announced that a “catastrophic implosion” of the...
View ArticleAmerican business firms global champions for now
The genesis of multinational enterprises (MNEs) dates from the early 160Os when the state trading companies, the English East India Company, and Vereenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC: 1602-1799) —...
View ArticleFacts: Ireland's GDP per capita was €25,300 in 2022
Eurostat: Actual individual consumption per capita in 2022Last April the International Monetary Fund (IMF) published gross domestic product (GDP) data for countries across the globe, in current US...
View ArticleIrish wealthiest in World in 2023! Brits ahead in GDP per capita
IMF April 2023: Ireland at $145,200 per capita; UK at $56,500; Irish adjusted $33,000The IMF (International Monetary Fund) says that Ireland's gross domestic product (GDP) per capita is the highest of...
View ArticleEuropean cities, housing crises, and too much tourism
'Far from the Madding Crowd' (1874: Thomas Hardy's novel) Four Seasons Resort, Langkawi, Malaysia— Credit Michael HenniganWilliam Whyte (1917-1999), a Fortune magazine editor, was the author of a...
View ArticleEuropean mass inward migration and melting Arctic
Scientists from the US Geological Survey predict that by 2050, the lack of sea ice will have reduced polar bear numbers by about two-thirds. By 2040, summer sea ice is expected to recede to a band...
View ArticleIrish Government may have nixed a key remedy for 'Leprechaun economics'
Tourism Ireland: "Gold" at the end of the rainbow in Dunlewey, County Donegal - Oct 30, 2015[Leprechaun economics triggered über sham Irish economic growth in 2015 and it still endures up to the...
View ArticleSecure homelands for Jewish and Palestinian people
In James Joyce's 'Ulysses' the character Mr Deasy says "Ireland, they say, has the honour of being the only country which never persecuted the Jews. Do you know that? No. And do you know why?""- Why...
View ArticleThe ‘Perfect Storm’ metaphor and lame excuses
Google Books Ngram Viewer cites 'Perfect Storm' in the early 1700s and the Oxford English Dictionary has published a reference from 1718: 'and a perfect storm of applause.'The references peaked in the...
View ArticleIsrael is the West's last settler colony
Map of the Southern Levant in the 9th century BC, with Israel in blueMount Zion is the place where Yahweh, the God of Israel, dwells. It is used for Jerusalem (also City of Peace) and from 1897-1948...
View ArticleIsrael a "brutal colonial power"; local rights group calls it "apartheid"
A Bedouin by the Jordan River in the early 20th century taken by the German Protestant Institute of Archaeology.The heinous attack on civilians in Israel, early on October 7th, was a monstrous crime...
View ArticleIreland in 2023: Music and tax haven shenanigans
'Fairytale of New York' played at funeral(reload the page if the music doesn't start)I was in Ireland in the first 3 weeks of December 2023. I was there to attend the funeral of my youngest brother in...
View Article4,000+ big multinationals fall within new global tax regime
Paolo Gentiloni, EU Commissioner for Economy, says that the coming into force of new rules for big multinational firms in Europe and in jurisdictions around the world is a historic reform which marks a...
View ArticleElections galore in 2024 - Ireland among reluctant voters
The Pew Research Center published in late 2022 the most recent nationwide election results for 50 countries, mostly with highly developed economies and solid democratic traditions. The Center said the...
View ArticleValue of Amsterdam house doubled in over 350 years - What happened next?
In 1625 Pieter Fransz, a carpenter, built a house on the outskirts of Amsterdam, by the new Herengracht (Gentleman's) Canal. The house is on the left of the picture.The Eighty Years' War, (1568–1648),...
View ArticleChina world leader in 37 of 44 critical technologies, EU missing
The Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) was formed in 2001 and the Critical Technology Tracker was launched on 1st March 2023. It identified China as having stolen a march on its...
View ArticleIreland's GDP per capita in 2023 at €30,000 - Denmark at €69,000
ECB: (European Central Bank): Intangible assets of multinational enterprises in Ireland and their impact on euro area GDPThe 20-country Euro Area has a population of about 348,000,000 and the EU is at...
View ArticleFT 1000 in 2024 tracks Europe’s fastest-growing companies
Raylyst Solar, a Prague-based solar panel distributor, heads the eighth annual FT 1000 ranking with a Compound Annual Growth Rate (%) of 824.4%. The company says "We are a leading distributor of...
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