Some things that come your way are so engaging, they are automatically memorable, no effort required.  As with most memory-related issues, t...

Well that's comprehensively seen off my weekend worry that Boris might catch his predecessor's Airport Fever .  Good instinct or goo...

Now fair enough, it's hot and the atmosphere is febrile.  Plus, it makes a jolly good story . Hard Brexit: the eye-catching contingen...

I have alway been partial to the principle in formal logic known as RAA - reductio ad absurdum - or; from a contradiction, anything follows...

Yesterday was really rather special.  Before lunchtime, May - who seems to have taken personal charge** - had impressed the eurowallahs wi...

This is a frankly excellent article  on the new Irish position re Brexit. It delivers a few key truth bullets that are very insightful whe...

In a week where some demented person having a breakdown is merrily providing the press with all sorts of nonsense stories, reality is slow t...

OK, so I am in Ireland just now, working (as ever) on an energy project, which requires me to grapple with the electricity market rules that...

...  never mind those 300 billion planets. Not if you inhabit the Labour Party metro-bubble.  Here's a front page from Labour List an...

In his fighting prime Martin McGuinness was a seriously professional urban guerilla - and ruthless with it, not least in the business of enf...

So this is easier than you may think to decide. There are five major considerations that any company has to take account of: Regulat...

A big fine, worth around €3250 to each Irish citizen. The US are already unhappy because Apple plays as little tax as possible in the USA ...

Whelk Stall, Irish-style  (pic: Wiki) Oh, what a game energy policy is - government picking winners, inventing schemes & subsidies ...

OUR 3,000 th POST Back in Dublin after a 6-month gap - and there are striking and visible signs of turn-around to accompany the departure...

As time goes by we often wonder what would we have done differently if we had our chances again? The fate of life means that we do not get t...

But enough of your soft diplomacy - here's the real deal.  From the Irish Independent :  UK slashes its interest rate on our £7bn ...

I am pretty much of a curmudgeon when it comes to the Olympics but I have to say that someone - Coe ? Moynihan ? Cameron ? HM the Q ? -...

So last year I sent a missive from Singapore, noting how well the local branch of C@W was doing on the back of the ads we run there .  And,...

Oh dear.  Voting has commenced, starting with Craggy Island , and on Thursday the rest.  They've been told what to do and they'l...

When you've had a property boom like they had in Ireland, boom-type thinking gets under your skin.  With headlines like this from the I...