Unemployment falling to 13.7 percent.   Employment increasing by 20,000.  THe CSO's new Quarterly National Houshould Survey should be good news.  So why isn’t it?  When we dig a little under…

The CSO release two sets of data yesterday which shows show why we are into a period of what Tom Healy, Director of the Nevin Economic Research Institute, described as…

Apologies for my long absence – all sorts of work to be done which meant this blog had to be parked for a while (a lot of work being done…

Haven  / ha-ven:  (n) a place of safety or sanctuary; shelter.  [Old English hæfen, from Old Norse höfn; related to Middle Dutch havene, Old Irish cuan to bend].  Example:  ‘Ireland…