Author: Frank Schnittger

Since 2007 the number of people employed in the Irish economy who do not have a secondary education qualification has reduced by 50%. The numbers of people employed who do have only a secondary educational qualification has...

I first became aware of Nelson Mandela in a personal way, when, as a 17 year old undergraduate student, I came in contact with South Africans who had been banned by the Apartheid regime for their political activities and who...

Ajai Chopra (left) of the IMF and an unidentified colleague pass a beggar as they make their way to the Central Bank in November 2010. Photograph: AP It’s easy to be Snarky about Ireland exiting the Troika Bail-out on the...

Ryanair CEO Michael O’Leary Ryanair has long been a source of a national embarrassment in Ireland. On the one hand it is one of the few truly successful Irish owned corporates which have succeeded in growing global in...

Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan delivered his 2014 budget to the Dail today – about 2 months earlier than usual to give the European Commission more time to review and approve its provisions. Taoiseach Enda Kenny had...