It was the ultimate test of where you stand on the great issues of economics and society: when you found out that a few people on the €350-a-week Covid payment were actually getting more than they would for working, did you think this was a good or a bad thing?
Today I'm talking to two veterans of the food and hospitality business and two relative newbies, all of whom have been extremely resourceful in these uncertain times.
The Covid-19 crisis could knock tens of thousands or more off Irish house prices and make the coming months the cheapest time in years to buy property - if you can afford to.
In early March, Noelle O'Connor, the founder of TanOrganic, was in a buoyant mood. Her product - the world's first and only eco-certified organic self-tanning brand - had landed on the shelves of 250 Boots stores in the UK at the start of the year. As a result, TanOrganic had posted highest-ever sales for January...
'Stop those non-humans who are writing and provoking our people," says Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov in an Instagram video. The "non-humans" he objects to are journalists who criticise the Chechen authorities for mishandling their response to the Covid-19 epidemic.
A third of Irish mortgage brokers are aware of cases where mortgage applicants who have signed contracts to buy a new home are at risk of losing their deposit for reasons linked to Covid-19, according to new research.
Cecile Rol-Tanguy, who has died aged 101, was a heroine of the French Resistance and liberation of Paris. Between 1940 and 1944, she led an intensely hazardous existence, bringing up a young family in enemy-occupied Paris while working as the liaison officer of her husband, Colonel Henri Rol-Tanguy, the commander of the Forces Francaises de...
