Doe-eyed, defiant, talented, troubled: remembering Sinéad O’Connor
July 29, 2023 5:18 amThe lady of the house smiled demurely and handed me a cup of tea in the conspicuously tidy living room... View Article
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Colm McCarthy: From rail to the Children’s Hospital, the Public Spending Code has been abandoned
July 28, 2023 5:10 amTwo years ago, Minister for Transport Eamon Ryan, with his Northern Ireland colleague Nicola Mallon, appointed the engineering consultants Ove... View Article
Where are we now, where are we going, part 3: The race between education and technology
July 27, 2023 5:01 amIn part one of the series, we looked at the forces framing Ireland’s growth and development. In part two, we... View Article
Sean Keyes on investing: Irish people are a good investment
July 26, 2023 5:50 amI was listening over the weekend to Ibec chief economist Gerard Brady and Stephen Kinsella’s podcast on the topic of Ibec‘a pre-budget... View Article
Sinead O’Sullivan: Space is hard, Europe hates risk and other home truths
July 25, 2023 5:09 amA while back, my Twitter-turned-real-life friend and new columnist for The Currency Joe Haslam retweeted an article from The Spectator... View Article
The underseller, the prescriptive one, and the hurdler: Meet the candidates who get in their own way
July 24, 2023 5:20 amI have had a few interesting chats with candidates in the last while in The Panel. They are all at... View Article
The new media world order: Rewinding the week that was
July 23, 2023 5:54 amYesterday’s engrossing podcast discussion between economists Stephen Kinsella and Gerard Brady explored new layers in Ireland’s well-documented two-tier economy: on the one... View Article
Stephen Kinsella meets Gerard Brady: The case for a national infrastructure fund
July 22, 2023 5:20 amEarlier this week, Stephen wrote about the capacity bottlenecks in Ireland’s state apparatus and argued that the country needed 100,000... View Article
How The Big Lebowski explains the dynamics of Spain’s general election
July 22, 2023 5:01 amI did not become the foreign correspondent that reading Robert Fisk threatened to turn me into. But at least my... View Article
Where are we now, Part 2: How to spend it? On the public service
July 21, 2023 5:08 amWe set the scene in part 1 of the series. In this part I want to look at the labour... View Article
