Balancing act between state and Big Oil

There may well be very considerable oil and gas resources ‘out there’, the problem is finding them

That uniquely Irish annual event at Glenties, the MacGill Summer School – a kind of Electric Picnic for geriatrics – goes from strength to strength. It retains its capacity to attract leadership figures from Dáil Eireann and Stormont as well as academics and movers and shakers who happen to be in the news. In today’s communications age it deserves a wider audience.

None of which obviates the necessity late at night to avoid ...