Author: Frank Schnittger

Britain offers to subsidise Irish wind farm industryTHE BRITISH government could massively subsidise the Irish wind energy industry under proposals to be considered in London today.Britain believes the west coast and the seas...

Michael NoonanThe ECB has set its face against any “credit event” being allowed to happen as part of the Greek or any other bail-out.  Ireland has even been prevented from buying out its own debt at discounted...

There is an ancient Greek proverb, often attributed to Euripides, which states that “whomsoever the Gods seek to destroy, they first make mad.” Whether the Eurozone crisis of 2011 was some kind of karmic revenge for...

        Garret Fitzgerald (1926-2011), Taoiseach (1981-1987), has died today aged 85.  He was one of the great reforming politicians in Irish political life and played a major role in the transformation...

I am one of those people who regard the EU as one of the greatest achievements of global politics, ever.  To bring together former warring imperial powers who, between them, caused and fought most of the worlds most brutal...