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Who was Angela Merkel?   As Europe draws a breath from Angela Merkel’s decision to call it a day and retire at 67, we decided to take a look at Europe’s true leader. For the past 16 years, the trouser-suited German Chancellor has been unquestionably the most powerful female politician since Thatcher. We in Ireland...

Will retailers get Elves on the Shelves this year? There was many a double take over the last few days in supermarkets across the country as we started to see the seasonal mountains of tins of Christmas sweets on sale. Even noted brand Quality Street got in on the act where you can choose your...

Guest blog from Niall O’Dowd, prominent Irish-American journalist and founder of newspaper Irish Voice, Irish America magazine and online news outlet Irish Central. He is also the author of Fire in the Morning (O’Brien Press) about the Irish who died on 9/11   There is direct line from attacks on 9/11 to rise of Trump...

Where have all the fans gone? The grass is cut, the pitch has been beautifully lined, football is back and the transfer window just closed. Consultancy firm Deloitte have an excellent study for fans of the beautiful game. The spending power for the five big leagues in England, Germany, Spain, Italy and France was almost...

Life After Covid – We Look to Europe for Inspiration Never in our wildest dreams did we think we would start a blog grappling with Bonnie Tyler’s immortal words from the 80s hit song Holding Out For A Hero; ‘’ Late at night I toss and I turn and I dream of what I need...

Why are we not all gripped by enthusiasm for The Billionaire Space Race? The battle between Richard Branson, Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk to ‘’slip the surly bonds of earth and touch the face of God’’, as Ronald Reagan might say, hasn’t quite caught the public’s imagination. Maybe that’s because we’ve actually seen it all...

Working Smarter, Not Harder Not a day goes by that an invitation is offered to discuss the future of work, be it working remotely, hybrid working etc. One of the critical areas businesses are now getting laser-focused on is the way we work, both in terms of remote working and utilising new technologies which save...

Gareth Southgate’s team approach winning hearts and minds, as well as games What we find extremely masterful is the team approach. When it comes to reflecting on the success to date of the England team at the Euro 2020 tournament, played out during this summer of ‘21. Many of us still remember the successes of...

Euro 2020 – Sports stars biting the hand that feeds them As the group of sixteen come together for another week of the Euros, many eyes will be on the antics of the footballing stars giving post-match interviews. A week ago, incidents such as Paul Pogba removing a bottle of Heineken from the table at...

Irish For Biden Campaign welcomes nomination of new US Ambassador to Ireland The Irish For Biden Campaign has welcomed the nomination today (Thursday 24th June) of Claire Cronin as the new US Ambassador to Ireland. Ms Cronin has been a strong support of President Biden and was a key figure in his election campaign. The...