Generation X - why do we never hear anything about us? Like an awkward, middle child squashed between the conservative, greedy Boomers and the whining, entitled Millennials - who divvy up all the attention between them.
After the final hurdles were cleared in their exhaustive strategy to relaunch the Bundesliga season, German football authorities were planning to hold the first match on May 15 - next Friday.
Three months ago this weekend, counting had just begun after the general election. Sinn Fein was soon declaring victory. The experts were agreed. The political landscape had been radically reshaped and nothing would ever be the same again.
Climate change shares a critical feature with the Covid pandemic: it does not lend itself to narrow, country-by-country policy responses. The virus is unaware that humans have constructed national political frontiers, and the planet has just one atmosphere, its accumulating stock of greenhouse gases shorn of national identity the day they are emitted. Purely national...
In 2005, many years before there was any prospect of him becoming prime minister of Britain, Boris Johnson published a novel called 72 Virgins. Its hero is an oddly familiar bumbling and gaffe-prone MP who spends much of the book charmingly cycling his bike, issuing quotable bon mots and being unjustly hounded by the press...
Consumers are increasingly having a fight on their hands for refunds in the Covid-19 crisis. Irish licensed travel agents and tour operators will now be able to offer a credit note for cancelled package holidays - rather than a cash refund - under proposals approved by Cabinet on Friday. Although it will be possible to...
US pharmaceutical firm Gilead this month received authorisation for its antiviral drug Remdesivir in the treatment of hospitalised patients with severe Covid-19.
