What a government does with an unexpected windfall says as much about its economic priorities as what it does when faced with a cash shortage. Whether the interest rate cut…

A neighbour described to me a local community meeting where it was announced that the local Garda station would be closed. Why, the residents asked? A local councillor answered: ‘Because…

Yes, we got a pat on the head. Yes, as Stephen Kinsella put it, there was a ‘nothing to see here, keep moving,’ quality to the EU-IMF’s performance report. And,…

There is something a little unsettling about the Finance Minister’s exhortation that we all go out and spend; namely, that the analysis he has received from his advisors is so…

Stop the presses! Fine Gael has come out against a flat-rate household charge. All you wild and whacky lefties can put away your signs, leaflets and banners – the senior…

It gets this weird – the Government is subsidising companies that are cutting their own workforce, all in the name of subsidising job creation.  Nonetheless, the Government will eventually claim…