On Prime Time Tuesday night, debating the Finance Bill, Fianna Fail’s Michael McGrath thought he was scoring a point on Sinn Fein’s Pearse Doherty by stating: ‘Your plan is to…

This was originally written for Progressive-Economy.ie Whatever about the disputes over facilitating the passage of the Finance Bill, what people want to know is what parties are going to do…

If a graph can chart a thousand words, how many does two graphs chart? The math is not that simple – especially when you’re comparing Ireland’s comparative standing in both…

I’m not disposed towards conspiracy theories – the world is, after all, a wide world. So, no, I do think the antics in Fianna Fail are a well-planned ruse to…

Brian Lenihan and Patrick Honohan inform us that the EU/IMF deal is not written in stone, that it can be ‘renegotiated’ (even, it seems, the interest rate). For progressives, the…

We are hurtling towards the economic relegation zone – and few are noticing. Over on Progressive-Economy, Anonymous left a comment on a post I did regarding exports: ‘If what you…

It’s bad enough the debate has not asked the fundamental question of why, after a series of austerity budgets, the deficit did not fall, borrowing costs shot through the roof…

There is much commentary about our strong export growth in 2010 and the knock-on effect on corporate tax revenue which came in about 24 percent higher than what the Government…

Welcome to the New Year, same as the old year – if commentary is anything to go by. And to get the year going Colm McCarthy has produced this gem:…