With people are returning to work after the bank-holiday weekend, here are some thoughts on reducing the working week – so that people can enjoy the equivalent of a bank-holiday…

The small town of Somerset, Kentucky had a problem. It was a potentially popular tourist destination because of its proximity to Lake Cumberland but local businesses and residents struggled with…

During the Cold War, lack of reliable information about Soviet Union politics forced Western analysts to seek out alternative signs  and portents:  the removal of portraits, the rearranging of chairs,…

Following on from my recent blog about the squeezed middle which showed that middle income groups received less than the national share of income than the EU-15 average (due to…

We have a housing crisis, a homeless crisis, a health crisis, an investment crisis; our education system is under-resourced, our indigenous enterprise sector is out to lunch and the Dail…

Seamus Coffey has been digging up some numbers which he self- deprecatingly refers to as one more ‘silly addition’ to what can be done with income distribution statistic. But silly…

An interesting piece of information came out from the CSO last week, three days before polling day. It showed increases in employment falling to a trickle. Are we seeing a…

So what’s it going to be? Coalition? Minority Government? Extended stalemate?  What we do know is that support for the Government collapsed – by over half. Labour’s decline was anticipated,…

So what’s it going to be? Coalition? Minority Government? Extended stalemate?  What we do know is that support for the Government collapsed – by over half. Labour’s decline was anticipated,…