Jane Smiley returns to the agrarian American mid-west setting of her 1992 Pulitzer Prize-winning A Thousand Acres for Some Luck, the first book in a proposed ‘Hundred Years Trilogy’.

The problem with capitalism is that the money and the decisions are the preserve of an elite few. There is a better, fairer, sustainable way that could serve us all, writes Kieran Allen

Noah Barleywater Runs Away

THE First World War finally draws to a close next week when after 92 years of shouldering a crippling debt the Germans will make their final payment of wartime reparations to the Allies.

JUST as people are pulling in the purse strings, the Central Bank threw a birthday party for banknotes.

IF A good start is half the work, what’s a bad start? A bad finish? A bad middle part? Just bad.

BUILT in 1929, the year of the Wall Street Crash, there’s no sign of economic downturn at Tig Padraig, a detached family home in a key location on Cork’s main Douglas Road.

Actor Kenneth Branagh is stepping into a president’s shoes for a TV movie about the man who led America through the Second World War, it emerged today.

A BUILDING contracting firm has gone up the learning curve, opting for a contemporary styled crescent shaped project as its first ever development.