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Berliners find foul issue of filthy city air is a real curse
- Europe
- January 29, 2019, 01:00
If you’re visiting Berlin and want to hear some really filthy German, I recommend taking a taxi ride from anywhere to anywhere. Within minutes the dr(...)

Britons don’t grasp the EU’s essential motivation – a quest for the quiet life
- Opinion
- January 28, 2019, 12:49
What does the EU want? This simple question has foxed Brits throughout the Brexit talks. It is alleged that Brussels is desperate to retain Britain; t(...)

Limited ambition of Franco-German Aachen treaty reflects new realities
- Opinion
- January 26, 2019, 03:00
It’s a ritual so faithfully enacted and re-enacted that it must be mandated in some obscure corner of EU law. Every so often, French and German leade(...)

The Smurfit MBA: Personally transforming students
- Sponsored
- January 24, 2019, 03:15
Graduates of the globally ranked UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School MBA enjoy salary uplifts of 63 per cent with three years while 90 per ce(...)

AfD MPs walk out on Holocaust survivor’s speech
- Europe
- January 23, 2019, 19:47
Members of Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) walked out of the Bavarian parliament on Wednesday after a Holocaust survivor accused(...)

Drone disruption at Gatwick costs EasyJet £15m
- Transport & Tourism
- January 22, 2019, 08:32
British budget airline EasyJet said on Tuesday that drone disruption at London’s Gatwick airport in December had cost it millions of pounds in lost op(...)

The poisonous myth: Democratic Germany’s ‘stab in the back’ legend
- Heritage
- January 21, 2019, 00:00
“German economic life is to be annihilated . . . It amounts to the denial of the people’s right to existence.” (German foreign minister Count Brockdor(...)

Irish farming cannot be beyond question in climate change battle
- Food & Drink
- January 20, 2019, 15:06
A fortnight ago, the Irish food scene was on a high. Butter sales hit the historic €1 billion mark, and beef and livestock exports came in just short (...)

Mayor of Gdansk dies after stabbing at concert
- Europe
- January 14, 2019, 09:51
The mayor of Poland’s northern city of Gdansk has died after he was stabbed at a charity event on Sunday evening. Pawel Adamowicz (53), mayor of the (...)

The two bright minds behind inspiring music festival in Doolin
- Music
- January 12, 2019, 06:00
Last January, the musician and music producer Simon O’Reilly and the percussionist and Kíla frontman Rónán Ó Snodaigh played a gig at the Courthouse G(...)