Conor White writes that investing in corporate bonds should be safer than investing in equity and that bonds outperform stocks at certain times in the economic cycle — like now, for instance. Have you ever heard co-workers talking around the water cooler about a ‘hot tip’ on a bond? Probably not. Bonds do not have [...]
Berna Cox has a strategy for coping with the recession — it’s cheap, cheap cheap and involves a few of her feathered friends. If you’ve just lost your job or you’re stressed out about paying your bills, it’s of little comfort for me to tell you that there just might be an upside to all [...]
St Thomas Aquinas wrote that ‘sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine’. In these turbulent times, Giovanni Morelli agrees. In this column, I have always tried to pick wines that are interesting and relatively inexpensive. It seems that with all the talk of recession, depression and general gloom, [...]
Dara Gantly previews the upcoming IMT Practice Management Seminar, where GPs will learn how to maximise their IT and accounting systems. GPs should look at introducing text messaging to avoid surgery no-shows and to remind patients when they are due a check up. Using SMS messaging is just one way Dublin GP Dr Brian Meade [...]
Dr John Wallace looks at a small but exceptional exhibition that is currently running at the National Gallery of Ireland in Dublin. Three renowned works painted by artists from the city of Delft in Holland are now on display at the National Gallery of Ireland. The exceptional compositions all date from the 17th century when [...]
Marie-Catherine Mousseau compares Dublin and Paris from a French point of view, and tells us she is still in shock from seeing people queue at cash machines. As every French person knows, Paris is a woman; impudent and provocative. Paris the beautiful, the magical, the enchanting. Predictably, as soon as I returned there a few [...]
Berna Cox writes that ‘meeting the family’ isn’t so bad if you brief your other half about your family’s little idiosyncrasies in advance. At a recent family celebration, one of the other half’s nephews visiting from the UK brought home a girlfriend. She had met the nephew’s mum, dad and sister before, but this was [...]
Shirley Lanigan writes that this year we are enjoying a proper, old-fashioned spring after a lean and cold winterFor reasons too numerous to count, we really do deserve a glorious spring for 2009. And because it has been hard won from out of the maw of the first proper winter in a long time, this [...]
A Rocky Road Ahead – Irish Economic Commentary was produced recently by Dermot O’Leary, Chief Economist in Goodbody Stockbrokers. Conor White outlines its main points. Recent concerns about Ireland Inc. have been centred on the ability of the Irish economy to cope with: (1) the ballooning budget deficits as a result of the sharp decline [...]
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