Here is one part of a presentation I made to the Nevin Economic Research Institute’s Labour Market Conference held earlier this month in the University of Limerick.  This may seem…

The Programme for Government has provision for cutting inheritance tax.  This is bleak business.  Cutting inheritance tax will be a bonanza for high-income groups.  Welcome to the new politics, inseparable…

Why isn’t this on the agenda?  Why are so few talking about it (one exception is Unite the Union, there are other civil society groups in this conversation, too)?  We…

We are potentially heading down a dangerous stretch of road ahead –leading us into the Ultra-Low spend zone.  In this zone, investment declines and, so competitiveness and productivity; health and…