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World

Cost Of Living Crisis

Irish people the quickest in the world to tighten belts due to cost of living crisis

New study shows 70 per cent of Irish adults have reduced their expenses in recent months, with new figures showing three in ten are now struggling to make ends meet
  • Donal MacNamee
  • January 16, 2023
The Big Picture

Vincent Boland: Modest but significant protests pierce Xi Jinping’s aura of invincibility

As protests continue to break out across China in a population thoroughly sick of the president’s crushing zero-Covid policy, he may be turning a potential victory over the virus into a far greater defeat
  • Vincent Boland
  • December 3, 2022
Ukraine

Dan O’Brien: We must support Ukraine for as long as it takes and not let Putin away with his tyranny

Russia’s tactics in pursuit of its imperial objectives show Putin’s ruthlessness, yet despite growing support here for joining Nato, no senior politician appears willing to lead the country towards the European mainstream on security
  • Dan O'Brien
  • August 27, 2022
Up for Debate

Up for debate: The best from the Business Post’s columnists

Insightful and stimulating analysis of the main developments in business and politics from Elaine Byrne, Pat Rabbitte, Tony O’Brien and more
  • Business Post
  • August 21, 2022
US

The unforgiven: Liz Cheney’s lonely fight for survival in Wyoming

The congresswoman and daughter of former US vice-president Dick Cheney is all but certain to lose her seat to a Donald Trump-backed opponent in the Republican primary this Tuesday. But in swimming pointedly against the tide of MAGA mania, is she eyeing a much bigger political prize on the horizon?
  • Marion McKeone
  • August 13, 2022
US

Marion McKeone: Trump sweats as his former counsel plays ball with Jan 6 committee

Pat Cipollone’s testimony on Friday about the events of the January 6 riot at the Capitol Building was delivered behind closed doors, but all the indications are that he was a co-operative witness, spelling more bad news for former US president Donald Trump
  • Marion McKeone
  • July 9, 2022
EU

Dan O’Brien: Germany caught between Russia, China and a hard place

It is no exaggeration to say that Germany’s reputation as a reliable partner has been damaged as badly as Britain’s has been by Brexit
  • Dan O'Brien
  • June 4, 2022

Hungary takes hard line on opposition to EU embargo on Russia oil imports

Country says it will withdraw veto threat on proposed ban only if its imports via pipelines are excluded from sanctions plan
  • Bloomberg
  • May 11, 2022
politics

Elaine Byrne: French vote tells us that politicians must pay heed to those who abstain

Emmanuel Macron’s speech following his victory over Marine Le Pen reflected an awareness of the level of democratic rejection, and there’s a lesson in that for our own politicians
  • Elaine Byrne
  • May 6, 2022

Dispatch from Ukraine: ‘There’s all this movement in Kyiv, like normal, but then there’s news from elsewhere that brings us back to reality’

In his letter this week, Ukrainian sports journalist Oleksandr Proshuta contrasts the relative stabilisation of life in the capital Kyiv with the chaos unfolding elsewhere around the country
  • Oleksandr Proshuta
  • April 23, 2022

Marion McKeone: Another billionaire disrupting the political scene with LA mayor bid

Rick Caruso, a luxury property developer who claims he can solve Los Angeles’ chronic homelessness problem in 300 days, looks set to outpoll Karen Bass, a popular congresswoman with 40 years’ political experience
  • Marion McKeone
  • April 17, 2022

Lucinda Creighton: Things must change if the centre is to hold against the march of the extremes

Macron should scrape back into office, but without a major change of course by him and his centrist followers, they will be squeezed out next time round
  • Lucinda Creighton
  • April 15, 2022

Dispatch from Kyiv: A city thirsting for peace – and for beer

There is cautious optimism in Kyiv about the potential for peace, but most people are just happy to be able to buy alcohol again. In his weekly report from the Ukrainian capital, sports journalist Oleksandr Proshuta writes of a surreal week
  • Oleksandr Proshuta
  • April 3, 2022

Marion McKeone: Biden facing a tougher battle on the home front

For the president, the re-emergence of the US as the undisputed leader of a united liberal world order has paid little or no dividend at home
  • Marion McKeone
  • April 3, 2022

Elaine Byrne: A global realignment is happening before our eyes as China ensnares Russia in its power game

The Sino-Russia relationship, with Russia the subservient partner, is united by the belief that a strong autocracy is a bulwark against a decadent democracy
  • Elaine Byrne
  • April 3, 2022

Dan O’Brien: The world faces a dangerous stand-off between democracy and autocracy

Greater European insecurity, changes to energy policy and a radical increase in political risk for businesses are among the long-term consequences of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, regardless of when and how the conflict ends
  • Dan O'Brien
  • April 2, 2022

‘Leaving was the toughest decision I have ever made in my life’: How a Ukrainian refugee escaped the hell of war

Olena Flanahan left Ukraine with her baby daughter Santa, and after a traumatic journey through three countries, is now staying in a hotel in Tralee in Co Kerry
  • Catherine Sanz
  • March 27, 2022

Vincent Boland: Is China edging towards a cautious embrace of the free market?

Developments in Beijing suggest that Xi Jinping’s administration is trying to engineer the economy’s reorientation from one development model to another without derailing it entirely
  • Vincent Boland
  • March 27, 2022

Inside Ukraine: ‘Kyiv is trying to reopen. Most of the barber shops near me and the coffee shops have reopened’

In his weekly dispatch from Ukraine, sports journalist Oleksandr Proshuta reports from the capital Kyiv where the inhabitants, under constant threat of Russian shelling, are trying to find a balance between staying as safe as possible and living a normal life
  • Oleksandr Proshuta
  • March 26, 2022

'I remember thinking how hard it must be to be a refugee, now I am one’

Kyiv couple were in New York when the Russian invasion began and they decided to fly to Dublin where Krys had friends from her time working in the city between 2014 and 2019. Now all she wants to do is return home to rebuild her country
  • Emmet Ryan
  • March 20, 2022

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