There is one stat that stands out this week.  3 Years This Sunday the Ballyhea Says No campaign will be celebrating their 3rd year of protest – marching every Sunday…

According to Finfacts: 'Michael Noonan, finance minister, signalled in a statement last Thursday that his Department is preparing a report on the corporation tax rate that is expected to be…

There are many issues to be sorted with the introduction of the Universal Health Insurance:  will it be a competitive private insurance market (a la Netherlands with its rapidly rising…

Ok, this follows on from yesterday's post but whenever I hear someone on the media claiming that Ireland is a high-tax economy, I'm going to @ the programme with this…

No matter what the evidence, regardless of what the data tells us, there are some who are determined to assert the opposite.  Take taxation – the evidence is absolutely clear: …

Unite has produced ‘Ireland Needs a Wage Increase’ – a comparative study of Irish and European employee compensation.  The bottom-line is that Ireland is a low-waged economy when compared with…

Eurostat has a particularly grim measurement – severe material deprivation.  They take nine deprivation indicators in which people cannot afford the following items: to pay their rent, mortgage or utility…

As if we didn’t know, we now know what the Government’s intentions are regarding tax cuts: ‘Minister for Finance Michael Noonan has pledged to widen income tax bands as soon…

You’d think that the monthly release of property prices was the ultimate barometer of not only the health of the housing market but the economy as a whole.  Are they…

It is often argued that the recession has been rough on all of us but that high income groups have had it the roughest.  European Commission Director István Székely came…

This is a guest post by Michael Burke.  Michael works as an economic consultant. He was previously senior international economist with Citibank in London. He blogs regularly at Socialist Economic…