Sometimes a proposal comes along that is so simple you say to yourself, ‘Why didn’t I think of that?’ That’s what I said when reading ICTU’s ‘Economic Outlook: Narrowing the…

ISME’s recent Business Trends Survey makes for grim reading: employment is down; sales, investment, orders, exports: all down. Owners and managers of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are extremely nervous.…

Policy makers really have a problem. They know that Ireland is a high-cost country but they seem to be unable or unwilling to figure out why. Forfas surveys all manner…

If someone were to stand up at a trade union meeting and start on about the ‘class war’ most people would just turn away and stare at their fingernails. We…

If someone proposed doubling payroll taxes on businesses, a ton of rhetorical bricks would fall upon them (increasing costs, undermining competitiveness, blah, blah, blah). If that someone were to say…

I was taken aback when the recent ‘crime’ figures were produced and not a peep was heard from the ultimate ‘law and order’ party, Fine Gael. They do pride themselves…

In other countries, there is a business class. In Ireland, we have, instead, a whinging class – or at least whinging spokespersons for the Irish business class. And they have…