Colin Murphy has a provocative column in the Sunday Business Post (January 27 – firewalled) about measuring our economy and national well-being.  The traditional measure is GDP.  The traditional yardstick…

Everyone is aware that Irish GDP figures are highly inflated and largely irrelevant.  Ditto for Gross National Income.  That’s why the CSO devised their Modified Gross National Income (or GNI*)…

A brief follow-up to my post on the Far Right's problems with immigration data.  I came in for some criticism for using the citizen / non-citizen measurement rather than the…

The far Right and their allies may not yet be a significant political force in Ireland but they are proliferating on a number of internet platforms, with the constant threat…

Today, just six working days into the New Year, the average remuneration for CEO’s in the top 26 Irish companies (which represent 95 percent of the market value of the…

There can be no doubting the urgency required to address climate change and there’s no doubting Ireland’s sluggish response.  Here is an opportunity for progressives to take the lead on…