Thank god someone is talking common sense. Tom O’Connor, economist at the Cork Institute of Technology, was on Morning Ireland arguing that rather than cutting expenditure, we should be looking…
Out for pints with a friend who treats Exchequer monthly returns like the Racing Post – forever checking the forms of the various revenue streams and then predicting the next…
Some people ask me – why is everything collapsing? Okay – so there aren’t a whole lot of houses being built. Can that possibly explain this sudden drop? The last…
Apologies for being away for so long – work pressure and all. And what a time – recession time! It’s hard to know what is more depressing: the fact of…
Commentary on Irish Political Economy by Michael Taft, researcher for SIPTU