I resisted getting a credit card for a long time – until a few months ago, in fact. I didn’t really need one, as I would have friends book flights for me online whenever necessary. But now Ryanair have put an end to my fiscal simplicity.
Ten years ago I gave English lessons to a German entrepreneur in Berlin, who had set up a successful energy company specialising in the supply and construction of wind turbines. I remember asking her if she had plans to expand the business in Ireland. “If
Os comhair ríomhaire le déanaí fuair mé roinnt suíomhanna idirlín faoi 9/11. I bhfírinne, ó tháinig an t-idirlíon go tithe an domhain tá réabhlóid mhilteanach tar éis
Chuir Hillary Clinton ag gáire mé le déanaí agus í tar éis cuairt a thabhairt don Mheán Oirthear. Tá eagla ag gach tir ansin roimh an Iarán, dár le Rúnaí Stáit,
While taking a stroll through the Jardins de Luxembourg in Paris last week, I spotted a photography exposition evoking ideas associated with the 27 states of the European Union. Naturally enough, I immediately wondered what images they would choose to represent
‘Gníomhaithe na sceimhlitheoireachta’ dár le hUachtarán Obama agus níl aon amhras air faoi chéannacht an sceimhlitheora Le Gearóid Ó Colmáin
On 22 January this year, one of Ireland’s last true communists died. Bob Doyle was born in Dublin in 1916 to a poor working class family. Doyle had a difficult childhood; while his father was away at sea, his mother was interned in a mental asylum, and
Since the reign of Frederick the Great in the 18th century, Berlin has mostly held a reputation as a city of tolerance and enlightenment. When Hitler rose to power in the 1930s, Berlin counted among the German states least in favour of the despot’s accession.
Tá arm na hIosraele tar éis tarraingt as Gaza le scrios graosta agus éadochas doimhin a fhágáil ina ndiaidh. Le níos mó ná 1300 daoine maraithe acu, tá siad ag tabhairt aghaidh arís don Teach
From his home near the Black Sea, a young man named Anacharsis made his way to Athens in the early sixth century BC. At that time, Athens was the centre of the civilised world, a metropolis teeming with innovative politicians, philosophers, poets and artists.
Bhíos ag féachaint ar Teilifís na Fraince le déanaí. Díospóireacht shuimiúil a bhí inti ina raibh roinnt fealsaimh dár linne (Michel Onfray agud Bernard Stiegler ina measc) ag tabhairt
The snow fell interminably as I boarded the bus to Auschwitz. It was early January 2005, 60 years after the liberation of the concentration camps. All I can remember of the journey was the pale, grey empty sky covering a vast expanse of forest. I