Does the Brexit vote, with all its contradictions and incongruities, represent an anti-establishment vote? The Brexit campaign was a struggle between two wings of the Tory party (including its breakaway,…
The bin charges debacle is spiralling into chaos. We have areas where two or three or four bin companies operate and other areas where companies are threatening to leave; escalating…
The Committee on Housing and Homelessness have produced their report. It is a credible piece of work, especially given the short-time frame and the challenge of agreeing recommendations on an…
When is an economy out of recession? When it returns to and exceeds the level at which it entered the recession. The economy exited the recession in 2014 – the…
Some commentators have recently challenged the assertion that there is no recovery outside Dublin. Dan O’Brien does up the numbers and show, with the exception of the West and recently…
Commentary on Irish Political Economy by Michael Taft, researcher for SIPTU