Lucas Downey is the co-founder of MoneyFlows, and an Investopedia Academy instructor. Jared Ecker is a researcher and fact-checker. He possesses over a decade of experience in the Nuclear and National ...

DUNDALK, Ireland -- "A punt? You mean, the old stuff?" Jean McGrath, digging through her purse for a five-euro note to pay for lunch at McDonald's, seemed astonished to be asked about Ireland's ...

The Irish currency is supposed to remain legal tender for six more weeks, but many bartenders overwhelmed by the new euro are already giving up on their country's own coins. Customers at many pubs ...

This time of year, everybody is Irish! But what’s that really mean? While many of us picture Ireland with quaint pubs, ornate chapels, and busy cobblestone streets, the most idyllic scenes in Ireland ...

The Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921 provided monetary independence to the newly established Irish Free State. The existing historiography views Irish monetary and banking policy post-independence as ...

Bridie Keeley didn't have an Irish penny to her name Saturday, but the Dublin flower seller didn't care. Like seemingly everyone in this nation, she had switched to the euro weeks before the last day ...

Venezuelan students are looking to Ireland to escape poverty - and make a killing on the foreign exchanges markers. Ireland’s honorary consulate in Caracas is besieged daily by hundreds of students ...