Yesterday’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
Earlier this week, Stephen wrote about the capacity bottlenecks in Ireland’s state apparatus and argued that the country needed 100,000... View Article
I did not become the foreign correspondent that reading Robert Fisk threatened to turn me into. But at least my... View Article
We set the scene in part 1 of the series. In this part I want to look at the labour... View Article
It was a brief enough statement but it represented, at last, a critical question answered. The interim Grant Thornton report... View Article
At a conference last week, I saw the Irish policy establishment forming a consensus on an important matter of state. The problem... View Article
Ireland is angry. Surveys shout it. Anecdote too. Seething anger, seemingly everywhere. And yet, Ireland is prosperous. Historically so. Relatively... View Article
“It’s not public-private partnerships we need, it’s a public-public partnership.” The remark came from a housing professional with whom I... View Article
There were times during the chaotic Joint Committee on Tourism, Culture, Arts, Sport and Media session on Wednesday when it... View Article
A few weeks back, we saw the release of the latest home commencement figures – one of a slew of... View Article
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