Beyond Blarney: How County Cork Is Building a Broader Tourism Economy
Strong air connectivity, a growing cruise business, food tourism and the extraordinary variety of Cork City, the harbour and West Cork are giving the…
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From Cheap Money to a New Interest-Rate Era: What Comes Next for Ireland?
Ireland entered the 2020s after years of exceptionally low borrowing costs, only to experience the fastest monetary tightening in the euro era. Rates then…
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Irish sheep breeding is moving beyond choosing a ram on appearance alone. Genomic evaluations, €uro-Star indexes, performance recording and increasingly precise health management are…
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From practical dairy and sheep farm walks to some of Ireland’s best-known agricultural shows, the period from 11 to 25 August 2026 offers farmers…
Read articleFrom Horsepower to Algorithms: How Farm Machinery Is Reshaping Irish Agriculture
Ireland now has more than 200,000 tractors on its farms and a machinery industry estimated to contribute almost €5 billion to the economy. John…
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A decade after its launch, Ethereum has grown from an ambitious blockchain experiment into infrastructure used for stablecoins, decentralised finance, tokenised assets and digital…
Read articleFrom Tenant Fields to Global Markets: How 200 Years Remade Irish Farming
Famine, land reform, emigration, mechanisation, European integration and global trade transformed Irish agriculture beyond recognition. Today’s farmer operates in a productive, export-driven and technologically…
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BlackRock now manages almost $48 billion through its flagship Bitcoin product, Circle’s USDC reached $73.3 billion in circulation at the end of the second…
Read articleCrypto’s Biggest Security Problem Is No Longer the Blockchain — It Is Everything Around It
Cryptocurrency has become harder to dismiss and easier to access, but the same characteristics that make digital assets fast, global and programmable also make…
Read articleCrypto Regulation in Ireland Has Entered a New Era — But Regulation Does Not Make Crypto Safe
Ireland has moved from an anti-money-laundering registration system to one of Europe’s most comprehensive crypto regulatory regimes. Crypto exchanges, custodians and other service providers…
Read articleIreland’s Construction Industry in 2026: Builders Scale Up as Housing Demand Meets the Infrastructure Test
Cairn Homes has reported a roughly 60% rise in first-half revenue, Glenveagh expects to deliver around 2,750 homes this year and Kingspan has just…
Read articleGlobal Markets in 2026: Record Stocks, Expensive Money and a World Learning to Price Risk Again
Wall Street and European equities are trading around record territory, Japan has surged, corporate profits are beating expectations and artificial-intelligence investment remains one of…
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