The Nevin Economic Research Institute, ICTU’s think-tank, has looked into the budgetary future and finds there is a better way of doing things.  They have utilised all the tools of…

We’re really lucky to have public sector workers to kick around – what with all their allowances and increments.   If we didn’t, media and commentary would have to give more…

In the final quarter of last year there was a glimmer of hope.  Employment rose, suggesting that the labour market was ‘bottoming-out’ and maybe, just maybe, we could start to…

Minister Brian Hayes is on safari, looking for big game to hunt down.  Who does he have in his sights?  ‘I think we need to realise that the one group…

Sometimes you just want to pick up the radio and shake it until the tiny little people inside start talking sense.  Take Minister Frances Fitzgerald on the Pat Kenny show…

It’s open season on the Croke Park Agreement and public sector workers in particular.  It should be scrapped, torn-up, renegotiated, whatever – just cut wages.  Some of the arguments are…

The Exchequer figures are out.  And they are not good.  Coming into this year, the Government had a strong wind at its back, with €1 billion being carried forward from…

It is commonly asserted by progressives that Ireland is a ‘low-tax’ regime.  Therefore, goes the argument, we should focus on tax increases rather than spending cuts – if we aspire…