Health- March 6, 2026 Healthcare costs amongst EU member states have grown from a historically low, or non-existent if you go back to Dickensian England, to now consuming substantial percentages of overall GDP. The West, bar America, has increasingly beco... See more
Trade and Economics- February 28, 2026 If you’ve been to a pharmacy recently and been told your usual prescription isn’t available, you are not alone and you are not imagining it. The same thing is happening across the country, and its been getting steadi... See more
Ireland’s National Competitiveness and Productivity Council published its Competitiveness Challenge 2025 report recently and to be fair to them its a thorough piece of work. It identifies real problems. It makes twenty recommendations. It uses all the rig... See more
Politics- February 28, 2026 Earlier this year the Irish Times ran a piece raising serious questions about financial irregularities at a prominent Dublin mosque — opaque funding, potential mismanagement, and ideological connections that nobody in officiald... See more
In January of this year a couple went to court in Ireland seeking to have their previous convictions for female genital mutilation declared a miscarriage of justice. That might not sound like a story with European significance, but it is, because how this... See more
