Ireland EU 50
The Celtic Phoenix after 50 years of transformative EU membership
When Ireland joined the EU, I was just a child and can hardly remember the significance of that accession. As I grew fonder ...
Ireland EU 50
‘It will probably work both ways’
As we mark 50 years of its membership in the European Union, it is worth reflecting on Ireland’s journey and contributions to the ...
Ireland EU 50
Ireland EU 50 – Ireland made its own luck
Ireland and Ukraine used to be worlds apart. Not any more. Russia’s war means that we now know where Kyiv is on the ...
Ireland EU 50
Do you remember the first time you ate spaghetti?
Suffice to say, I struggled to keep it on my fork! There we were, sometime in the very late 1970s, a group of ...
Ireland EU 50
Ireland and the EU 50 Years On: The Power to Change Lives
I grew up in a rural town in Ireland at a time when consensual sex between adult men was a criminal offence. As ...
Ireland EU 50
Shifting meanings – translation, Irish and Ireland
Umberto Eco famously said ‘the language of Europe is translation’. Growing up in Ireland the fact that translation was also one of Ireland’s ...
Ireland EU 50
Ireland: A Strong EU Player
It always struck me, as I watched and engaged with Irish commentators (journalists, thinktanks, academics), politicians and diplomats, how comfortable Ireland was in ...
Ireland EU 50
Northern Ireland: What pays the journalist‘s bills?
Although the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom joined the European Community at the height of the Northern Irish conflict, the European ...
The European Network
Introducing The European Calendar
Today, on Europe Day, the European Network is launching The European Calendar. From Holocaust Remembrance Day to the fall of the Berlin Wall, ...
Economy
Why are they protesting?
At present in France there are strikes and public protests because of the change of retirement age proposed. It would change 62 to ...
