The universities all over Ireland today will jointly bestow an Honorary Doctorate of Laws on U.S. philanthropist Chuck Feeney. Mr Feeney was a member of the US Air Force in WWII before becoming an entrepreneur and going global with his duty free shops at airports and ports of call around the world. Ireland’s Prime...
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The Houses of the Oireachtas have issued a tender for the supply and servicing of 300 tablet computers for TDs and their staffers. An internal Irish government study shows that the move to tablet computers like those from Apple and Samsung will go further in the pursuit of keeping Ireland green by reducing the...
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Lucky for the EU, Irish consumers are more confident these days about their financial where with all than they have been in almost five years, a new report shows. The consumer sentiment index shot up in August, largely due to homeowners expecting a new cut in eurozone interest rates. Consumers are still cash-strapped and...
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It’s finally happened and it’s making many an Irishman happy. The “yield” or interest rate that investors demand to hold long term IOUs from the Ireland has dropped below 6% for the first time since October 2010. The yield on 9 year Irish government bonds dropped to 5.96% shortly before midday, falling below the...
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A red carpet reception for members of Ireland’s Olympic Team took place at Ireland’s house of government, Farmleigh House in the Phoenix Park in Dublin. Taoiseach Enda Kenny greeted the athletes as they arrived. Mr Kenny said the team had been “champions for the nation” and had given people many precious moments over the...
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As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney was the leader of one of the largest Irish-American communities in the United States as Mr. Romney explained it to Taoiseach Enda Kenny during a visit to the Irish Embassy in London. And on that very same day that the Republican Presidential nominee Mitt Romney met with the...
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A confidant of Bill Clinton and the Irishman behind a US company that flies under the radar has hired a Reagan-era legend. Tipperary man Declan Kelly’s Teneo Holdings has enlisted Ed Rollins, who was election master mind and senior adviser to the late US President Ronald Reagan. Rollins ran the 1984 Reagan campaign that...
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The government of Ireland has raised over €5bn in the bond markets today in a stunning return to the markets after a two year drought. The National Treasury Management Agency raised over €4bn of new bonds and convinced more international investors to swap bonds due to be paid in the next two years for...
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An Irish travel agency has stopped selling trips to Mauritius … out of solidarity with the McAreavey and Harte families. Caroline Davies, who owns Liberty Travel in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal, said she was disgusted after details emerged during the trial of how authorities treated Mr McAreavey in the aftermath of his wife’s death. “They...
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