Blog posts tagged "Ireland"

January 17, 2011 9:55 am 38 Comments

Jon Snow blogs on the extraordinary news events of recent days - including the revolution in Tunisia and the return of Haitian dictator Baby Doc Duvalier to his country - which are even more dramatic than fiction.

November 30, 2010 11:20 am 19 Comments

Two articles over the past few days describe the core of the crisis in the integrity of the political classes.

November 24, 2010 10:58 am 40 Comments

For those of us who are relative financial ignoramuses, is this the financial world of the madhouse? Jon Sno blogs on the Ireland bailout and the "failue of capitalism".

November 22, 2010 7:41 am 36 Comments

A chance encounter with two young Irish entrepreneurs on a train.

October 4, 2010 9:53 am 36 Comments

A financier whom I know calls me over the weekend about the Irish financial crisis. “Jon”, he says, “I trust you know that 80 per cent of the Irish banking crisis was caused by a handful of property developers taking massive punts on the housing and construction market?”

July 8, 2010 9:31 am 42 Comments

The Celtic Tiger of Ireland's boom years is worse than on its knees. Is this a lesson for the UK?

June 16, 2010 8:54 am 24 Comments

There’s prosperity in Londonderry, Belfast and in so many of Northern Ireland’s towns and villages that throughout the Troubles was for ever absent.

November 17, 2009 12:23 pm No Comments

The ingredients are falling into place for another global financial crisis, blogs Jon Snow. And if it happens, the examples of Ireland and Iceland should serve to remind the UK that size matters.

September 7, 2009 10:34 am 14 Comments

Electric Picnic. It might better be termed the eclectic picnic – a totally amazing event out beyond the verdant turf of the golf courses and the famous Curragh race course in the heart of Ireland. Ostensibly a folk and rock-fest starring everyone from Brian Wilson to Florence and the Machine, the Picnic proved much more [...]