We have been told that we are ‘all in this together’, everyone has ‘shared the pain’ and that the wealthiest have borne a 'disproportionate amount of the burden'.  Is this…

Relief throughout the nation – employment rising, joblessness falling; the new CSO release should give us something to cheer about.  Some quick notes on what the numbers are telling us:…

The Dail Technical Group is putting forward a private members’ motion calling on the Government to re-enter negotiations with the ECB with a view to writing off the Anglo-Irish bank…

Every Friday I hope to feature a telling statistic – one that explains an issue simply and says more than a ream of posts ever could.  Here is the first…

Oh, the trouble one gets into by pointing out the obvious.  There have been comments on the post, Purging Ourselves of Our Young, claiming that my factual reporting of the…

If what the Sunday Business Post claim is true, the Government has committed a profound breach of trust with the Irish people – a breach which should be urgently investigated…

At the weekend over 200 young people gathered in Liberty Hall under the auspices of We’re Not Leaving to draft a Young People’s Charter.  The charter addresses a number of…

Day by day it gets weirder.  First, the EU commits itself to breaking the link between banking and state debt.  This was described as a ‘game-changer’ and led some in…