Irish policymakers have been ignoring inconvenient truths for decades. Over the next three weeks, I will be looking at the real data in a range of issues including the national accounts and the labour market. But today, I am starting with housing.
First elected to the Dáil at the age of 27, Lucinda Creighton was a rising star in Fine Gael – before she resigned from the party over her stance on abortion. Having left Irish politics for good, Creighton has entered the world of business through Vulcan Consulting.
As Ireland votes, get some depth on the economic impact of your vote: The Currency has interviewed frontbenchers from the five leading parties at length on business issues, while Stephen Kinsella crunches the numbers and unveils the faultlines revealed by the campaign.
The Irish economy is booming, and unemployment has flatlined. Yet, Fine Gael is getting little electoral credit for its stewardship of the economy. In his pre-election interview, Minister for Finance Paschal Donohoe defends his record and critiques the economic plans of the other parties.
To grow its vote share in middle Ireland, Sinn Féin needs to project solidity and competence. Pearse Doherty aims to fit the bill. In his pre-election interview, he outlines, and defends, the party's radical, ambitious, and expensive manifesto.
A former attorney general, cabinet minister and Tánaiste, Michael has now carved out a new niche in the Seanad. He talks to Sam Smyth about politics, policing, power, bravery and freedom of the press.
This week’s Westminster election may reshape Northern Ireland’s political landscape along Brexit fault lines – but on a UK scale, it still looks set to return a majority set on unrealistic trade expectations, raising again the prospect of a no-deal.
Where they go, Ireland goes. In part three of his series on where Ireland is going, Stephen Kinsella looks at the institutional design of our society, analyses our ruling ideas, and asks which sets of interests dominate.
Brexit has changed the role of the Minister for Foreign Affairs. And the current incumbent of the portfolio, Simon Coveney, has revelled in the position. In this wide-ranging interview, he discusses negotiation strategy, his political ambitions and Ireland’s role in a post-Brexit Europe.
Paschal Donohoe worked at a high level in the corporate world and has since risen the ranks in politics to become Minister for Finance and Public Expenditure and Reform. What can the public sector learn from the private world, and vice versa?
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