The real question, however, is what is to be done about health? Health’s budget will continue to balloon without better data on what is being spent where and for what outcome.
Integrating Northern Ireland would cost the Republic a lot of money, but establishing the nature of the transformation to be paid for is more likely to cause difficulty than the final amount involved.
Leo Varadkar has announced his resignation as Taoiseach and party leader, two positions he first assumed in June 2017. A pandemic and a European war later, how has the Irish economy changed under his tenure?
More than a century ago, Arthur Griffith saw capitalism as the building block of the economy while overtly advocating for state intervention. As the next election approaches, Sinn Féin’s stance is still rooted in this century-old policy.
A recent conference at Trinity College Dublin disproved President Michael D Higgins's portrayal of economics as a field dominated by a "hegemonic discourse".
By any measure, Ireland is better off than at any point in time before. Yet it is also angrier. So, what gives?
The answer to this question depends on your definition of “good” or “bad”, your points of reference, and your units of comparison. This week Stephen Kinsella decided to have a debate about it. With himself.
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