Over at Dublin Opinion they're calling the leader of the Opposition terrible names – names I never read in the Bible.  What exactly did Enda Kenny say to deserve this? …

Truly, a tale of two economic cities.  First, the Irish Times heads an article 'Wage Increases Higher than EU Average in 2007'.  Citing a recent European Industrial Relations Observatory survey it…

Yes, yes and yes again.  'What Ireland did in the 1990s is something that had never really been done before by anyone. We imported development. Most modern economies plugged foreign direct…

The Irish Times leader writeris in an upbeat mood – or, at least, sliver-lining gazing.  With the prices of oil and basic food commodities falling, this hopefully will take some…

Must have been a slow news week.  The Sunday Tribune reported on ICTU's proposalsto combat inflation.  They claimed they were submitted to the national pay talks two weeks ago.  However, the pay…

What a trooper – Denis O'Brien riding shotgun through the radioactive land that is our economy to bring us the good news of recovery and redemption.  The masses have waited…

Just when you despair of sensible commentary in our media, along comes someone like Carl O'Brien, Social Affairs Correspondent of the Irish Times.  Writing today, he puts the educational challenges…

Fidel Castro once said that in the classless society there would be no need for universities because all society would be a learning experience.  I don't think he was being…

The rain conjures up many things for people: depression, wet clothes and dreams of a sunny Mediterranean village with cheap wine and grilled prawns.  I share in that but there…

What a dog's dinner. Education Minister, Bat O'Keefe, flew his 'bring back tuition fees' kite.  It was immediately shot down by the Greens, the PDs and, even, Minister Hanafin.  Then the…

It must be great to be a spokesperson for employers.  You can just plonk yourself in front of a microphone and say anything that comes into your head, no matter how outrageous or…

A lobbyist for a group gets paid to promote that group's agenda.  For business lobbyists that means putting on the poor mouth, sackcloth and ashes, maintaining that companies can't afford…

If you see Charlie McCreevey walking down the street, dining in a fashionable café, or panhandling outside Government Buildings – arrest him. You have the power – the common law…

GET RICH THE IBEC WAY!  If you accept our new low-low offer, you too can be better off by €2 per day.  You heard right – a big €2 per…

So the pay talks have ‘collapsed’, or as one commentator on Newstalk put it, ‘the social partners are entering into a period of trial separation’.  The Taoiseach wants to meet…

It was an interview of two halves.  On Morning Ireland, FAS economist Brian McCormick made an excellent point in the first half of the interview, discussing the inexorable rise in…

Did anyone catch the curious symmetry?  On the day that unemployment, once again, shot up, AIB announced their half-yearly profits.  Two different worlds on this small island. Not that there weren’t…

It was only a matter of time before the business sector opened up another front in the recession wars.  Hamburger king Pat McDonagh of Supermac has accused the Government of…

The bloggers over at Dublin Opinion are forever uncovering gems.  Their latest little dig, courtesy of Conor, brings us ‘Charley’s March of Time’– an animated promotional film produced by the British…

So, ‘curbing’ public spending growth is the only option.  Thus spake Paul Tansey in last Friday’s Irish Times.  Working from figures supplied by the Department of Finance, he attempts to…