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The UK's Place in Europe - Irish Times

David Cameron's European policy is becoming more and more uncertain as it encounters increasing concern about his pledge to hold a referendum on the United Kingdom’s place in the...

Countries Lobby for More in Race for U.S. Visas - Eric Lipton, NY Times

The government of South Korea hired a former C.I.A. analyst, two White House veterans and a team of ex-Congressional staff members to help secure a few paragraphs in the giant immi...

On the Verge of a Regional Mideast War - Irish Times

The uncertainty added by the Israeli raids, although sanctioned in advance by the US, complicates President Obama’s predicament by adding to growing pressures on a deeply rel...

Political Opportunism and Amnesia in Europe - Irish Times

The Bourbons, as Talleyrand once remarked, learned nothing and forgot nothing. What was true of the rulers of France some two centuries ago seems true of voters in some countries i...

Germany Should End Austerity, Not Ireland - Megan Greene, Bloomberg

If Germany and other core euro-area economies were to shift from cutting spending to providing a stimulus, then imports from Europe's weaker economies would grow and those countrie...

The Man Who Put Europe in Order - Daniel Larison, American Conservative

Challenging the caricature drawn by the likes of Byron and Shelley, Bew carefully reconstructs Castlereagh’s private and public lives through extensive investigation of his p...

The Two Irelands Need One Economy - Dan O'Brien, Irish Times

Although there will be two polities on this island for as far into the future as anyone can see (that was underscored by an opinion poll earlier this year on northerners’ prefere...

What Do Irish Teachers Have Against Israel? - Jerusalem Post

Marking Holocaust Remembrance Day last week, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said that “murderous hate against Jews... has not gone away, it has simply been replaced by murdero...

She Did It Her Way - The Irish Times

Like it or not this time will be known as the Thatcher Era. The least likeable of all leaders, according to consistent opinion poll findings, she nonetheless won three elections, a...

What Thatcher Did for Ireland - Stephen Collins, Irish Times

Margaret Thatcher had a huge influence on Ireland during her 11 years as British prime minister. She was loathed by republicans, disliked by nationalists and distrusted by unionist...

Thatcher's 'Resolve' Failed Northern Ireland - Timothy Lavin, Bloomberg

In Margaret Thatcher's long career, violence in Northern Ireland provided an unrelenting soundtrack. And the conflict did not bring out the best in her....

Ireland's Wrenching Debate - Christopher Caldwell, Weekly Standard

Wide-eyed, heavily lipsticked, with a delicate jeweled bindi between her eyebrows and an almost joyous expression on her face, Savita Halappanavar has been staring out from the fro...

St. Patrick's Day Cheapens Irish Culture - Donald Clarke, Irish Times

Annual feast day underlines the cheapening, reductive nature of the patriotic aesthetic....

Ireland a Poster-Child of EU Cruelty - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph

Ireland has done everything demanded by the EU’s creditor powers, and seemingly survived....

A New Golden Age of Irish Whiskey - Clifford May, American Spectator

I first developed a taste for Irish whiskey back in 1978. I was a young foreign correspondent sent to Northern Ireland to cover the Troubles, the civil conflict that broke out in t...

Who Kidnapped the Irish Tycoon? - Tom Sykes, The Daily Beast

The property magnate was found last week wandering the Irish countryside with THIEF carved in his forehead. A shocked nation is closely following the investigation -- but with not ...

The Moment for Irish Unity Is Nearly Over - John Lloyd, Reuters

The latest “troubles” in Northern Ireland began 45 years ago, and though much reduced, sometimes to invisibility, they are not over yet and will not be for some time. Protests ...

Ireland Should Drop the Model-Student Act - Megan Greene, Bloomberg

Talk to practically any investors in London and they will tell you Ireland is a shining example of a successful euro-area bailout program, a narrative that the country’s inte...

Is Ireland Really a Nation? - Desmond Fennell, Irish Times

Independent nations exist amid changing internal and external circumstances. To retain their internal cohesion, their independence and their creative power, they must work continua...

Ireland Deserves a Bailout - Wall Street Journal

There are strong reasons why Ireland deserves a carve-out if the bank bailout fund doesn't end up authorized to address pre-existing problems like Ireland's. In Ireland's case, unl...

Can Belfast Stymie Sectarianism in Northern Ireland? - The Guardian

If ever there was a time for Belfast and its civic and political leaders to rise to the occasion and earn their authority, this is it....

Angela Merkel Is Bad for Europe -- and Berlin - Dan O'Brien, Irish Times

The chancellor is bad for Europe and bad for Germany, where voters would be doing us all a favor if they kicked her out....

The Church vs. Ireland over Abortion - Stephen Collins, Irish Times

The Catholic church appears intent on a confrontation with the democratically elected politicians of this State going by recent statements in advance of the Oireachtas committee he...

Soon, Ireland Won't Need a Parliament - Vincent Cooper, Commentator

Politics is dead in the Irish Republic. The Irish parliament, the Dail, is now little more than a rubber stamp for the Troika, the generic name for the European Central Bank, the...

Ireland's Historic Abortion Shift - Sorcha Pollak, Time

Opening the doors to what would be the first legal abortions in Ireland, the Irish government announced Tuesday it will introduce laws and regulations that will clarify existing la...

Ireland Gearing for Church-State War - Tim Stanley, Telegraph Blogs

The Irish government has announced that it’s going to push through legislation to legalise abortion. It will repeal existing legislation that makes an abortion a criminal offe...

Coming to Terms with Google's Global Power - Paul Gillespie, Irish Times

‘It’s called capitalism. We are proudly capitalistic. I’m not confused about this.” So said Google executive chairman Eric Schmidt this week in a Bloomberg interview defen...

N. Ireland Pays Price for Stifling Moderates - Peter Geoghegan, Scotsman

Northern Ireland is paying the price, writes Peter Geoghegan, for failing to give moderates any effective voice Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold/ Mere anarchy is loosed u...

United Ireland Is Now But a Fantasy - Ruth Dudley Edwards, Telegraph

It seems like a return to the bad old days: Belfast convulsed by eight days of vicious rioting, in which 32 police officers have been injured. For this we can credit the province�...

Sectarianism Lives on in Ireland - The Independent

Hillary Clinton's visit to Northern Ireland was partly designed as a lap of honour. The Clintons did play important parts in the peace process and are indeed to be ranked among the...

Age of Irish Austerity Will Not Be Short-Lived - Dan O'Brien, Irish Times

If the hole the British are in is not nearly as deep as the one we are in, but they are preparing for more years of retrenchment, the chances of fiscally neutral budgets in 2016 ar...

Ireland: From Crisis to ... What? - European Council on Foreign Relations

Since the fatal decision to bail out Irish banks in September 2008 and thus socialise bank debt, Ireland has found itself in the throes of multiple crises: banking, public finan...

How Ireland Got Its Groove Back - Stephen Kinsella, Foreign Affairs

The Irish have an expression, "to put on the poor mouth" -- meaning to exaggerate the severity of your circumstances in order to gain sympathy, charity, and perhaps forbearance. In...

It's Time to Write Off Some Greek Debt - Business Day

With Greece having now done its bit by inflicting severe pain on itself at considerable political risk, and the German election only a matter of months away, a meaningful debt writ...

If Ireland Had a Roe v. Wade - Latanya Mapp Frett, CNN

Savita Halappanavar died last month in Ireland after being denied a lifesaving abortion. If she had lived in the United States -- where in two months we will mark four decades of s...

Ireland Needn't Rush to Legalize Abortion - William Binchy, Irish Times

Irish medical practice does not need the introduction of an abortion regime into our hospitals Savita Halappanavar’s death is a tragedy that has radiated outwards to embrace...

Ireland Is Safe, Despite the Propaganda - David Quinn, Irish Independent

IN the debate about abortion we are constantly dealing with what can only be described as 'asymmetrical hysteria', that is we are only ever outraged by anti-abortion laws and their...

A Decisive Change in Ireland's Abortion Debate - Noel Whelan, Irish Times

There is much we do not know about the medical care Savita Halappanavar received. It is as yet unclear whether a lack of legal clarity contributed in any way to the circumstances o...

Europe Poses Risk to Irish-UK Ties - Stephen Collins, Irish Times

A century on from the tumultuous events that led to Irish independence, powerful forces are in motion that could alter the political landscape of Europe again. The implications for...

Ireland the Big Loser if Britain Leaves EU - Dan O'Brien, Irish Times

Possible changes in the wider world likely to make the international environment less benign for Ireland than in recent decades were assessed here last week. But what about the iss...

Ireland Taking More than It Gives to Africa - Colm Keena, Irish Times

Ireland has long been proud of its contribution to development aid to Africa and other poorer parts of the world, but the growing amount of information available concerning the rol...

Irish Society Colluding in Its Own Destruction - Fintan O'Toole, Irish Times

This is an eerily accurate diagnosis of the collective passivity of Irish citizens. We are the victims of an obvious outrage – forced to beggar ourselves to pay off debts that �...

Ireland's Odd View on Taxes - Dan O'Brien, Irish Times

We Irish are unusual in our attitude to tax and government spending in at least three respects: we meekly accept increases in "invisible" taxes but revolt when asked to write even ...

Ireland Not Meeting Bailout Requirements - Brendan Keenan, Irish Indy

While it is true that we have met the (very few) financial targets for debt ratios and the like, even a casual reading of the memorandum shows we repeatedly fail to meet other targ...

Democracy Under Threat Worldwide - Irish Independent

The atrocities in Libya and the sectarian ferment that has gripped sections of the Muslim world should remind us, 'lest we forget', that liberty is something countries earn; as dis...

Ireland's Disturbing Exodus - David McWilliams, Irish Independent

The fall in the population of young people in Dublin is quite shocking. Overall, between 2010 and 2011, the population between 20 and 24 in Dublin has fallen by 11.9pc but the disa...

A Bold Solution for Irish Debt - David McWilliams, Irish Independent

With mortgage writedown and debt forgiveness will come a certain amount of repossessions because there are cases where people have no ability to pay and the bank can't just give th...

How Ireland's Economic Crisis Ends - David McWilliams, Irish Independent

Over the course of the next year, as the economy continues to deteriorate or at best bump along the bottom, many thousands of people trapped in too much debt on houses that are wor...

The End of Catholic Ireland - Mary Kenny, The Guardian

Catholicism was once so all-pervading in Irish life that it seemed a definition of Irishness: but now, according to a survey by the pollsters Red C, the Irish are losing their fait...

Crash of the European Bumblebee - Paul Krugman, New York Times

Could the euro be saved? Yes, probably. Should it be saved? Yes, even though its creation now looks like a huge mistake. For failure of the euro wouldn't just cause economic disrup...

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