A good friend of mine took one look at the CSO’s National Quarterly Accounts released today and described it in two words:  ‘f****** awful’.  As this is a family-friendly blog…

It is reported that the Minister Richard Bruton will propose that tax cuts are needed to keep the economy on course.  Well, at least this has the virtue of consistency…

Ministers are fond of telling us that we are 80 percent through the dark austerity forest.  Soon, maybe within a couple of years, we will enter into the light where…

As a prelude to a more detailed discussion about the household debt crisis in subsequent posts, I’d like to present a few graphs that should become central to the debate. …

Public sector pensions – is there any three-word formulation more likely to angry up the blood?  Not likely (except, maybe, ‘public sector pay’).  Mention public sector pensions in polite company…

We are on the verge of avoiding the fundamental issue regarding the childcare crisis; namely, that a private sector model of delivering childcare will keep the service beyond the reach…