Economy – Peter Geoghegan

‘Peace Dividend’ for Northern Ireland Economy?

By peterPosted on 18th August 2013Posted in Northern Ireland, Sunday Business PostTagged Economy, interface, Northern Ireland, peace, Trademark

On 15 August 1998, a car filled with a 500 pounds of fertiliser explosive was left outside S.D. Kells’ clothes shop in Lower Market Street in Omagh. At ten past three on a busy Saturday the bomb detonated. Around 220 people were injured and 29 killed in the blast, the heaviest death toll of any […]

Ireland’s tough road back

By peterPosted on 25th March 2012Posted in Ireland, Scotsman, Society and CultureTagged Abie Philbin Bowman, Celtic Tiger, Conor McCabe, Economy, Ireland

It doesn’t feel like a country in the grip of a lost decade, writes Peter Geoghegan, but beyond Dublin’s corporate office blocks and crowded city-centre bars lies another Ireland Last weekend more than 50,000 people – many of them Scottish rugby fans – packed into the Aviva Stadium in Dublin to watch Ireland triumph over […]