Apoligies for being away but workload is mounting.  I will be back on-line after Christmas.  So wishing all of you seasons’s best.

I read Business and Finance magazine so it’s hard to depress me. But a recent post on Limerick Blogger, and many (though by no means all) of the subsequent comments,…

If you’ve been around the block enough times you will learn many things: from the smile on Mrs. Murphy’s face you can guage how well she’s getting on with her…

Cathal O’Loghlin, writing in the Sunday Business Post, gave us much to ponder, outlining the difficult choices that any Minister for Finance would face given the deteriorating budget finances. But…

‘Labour’s going soft on drugs!’ ‘Labour to expel trade unions!’ ‘Labour says, yeah, what the hell, we just might join up with Fine Gael again.’ Would you want Eamon Gilmore’s…

So, the Minister for Finance, after pocketing a sizeable increase in salary, is now lecturing Irish workers about the dangers to economic growth if they dare seek higher wages. Anymore…

One of the reasons put forward as to why we shouldn’t introduce a tax on the highest income earners is that it would be a disincentive to work and enterprise,…

Just when you think you should ease up on your criticism of our native entrepreneurs (after all, its not like we can hold an election and elect a new set…

Don’t scandalise the parish by using the ‘S’ word in public. It will lose you support, relevance and the esteem of broadsheet commentators. To use the ‘S’ word is to…

Say what you will about him – war criminal, corrupt, spawn of the demons sent by Satan himself to destroy humankind – Donald Rumsfeld’s brain crushing elucidation of ‘unknown knowns’…

Not many of us have the good fortune to found a school of thought. But David McWilliams is a fortunate man. In the final episode of RTE’s Generation Game he…

With Michael Moore’s new film, Sicko, coming to cinemas here soon, we are sure to get comparisons between the American and Irish health care systems – which are moving closer…

Is anyone really surprised? Imagine: there are some wealthy people using loopholes to reduce their tax liability. Did you ever think it would come to this? The Revenue Commissioners’ recent…

Read through Enterprise-Ireland’s Annual Reports and you might think that everything’s all right on the native enterprise front. Exports are increasing, new companies are coming on stream while current companies…

‘ . . . some people are saying that the economy is ruined.  Anyone who says that knows nothing about nothing.’ Thus, Taoiseach Bertie Ahern responding to the growing concerns…

Wherever two or more are gathered in the name of the Left, the conversation will eventually turn to the corporate tax rate. This is understandable. Tesco, Burger King and property…

‘The tide of regulation had gone too far. The increasing burden of regulation is  threatening the entrepreneurial zeal that had made the Irish economy the envy of the world. It…

As a child I had a number of heroes. Willie Mays, centerfielder for the New York/San Francisco Giants with that spectacular over-the-shoulder catch, and Linus Van Pelt of Peanuts fame,…

Imagine how frustrating it would be if you came up with the formula for Coca-Cola but couldn’t bring it to market.  Its as frustrating as listening to Left spokespersons trying…

The arguments and counter-arguments regarding Aer Lingus’s decision to abandon Shannon continue unabated. But one claim is particularly intriguing: that ‘it’s a commercial decision’. In one sense this argument doesn’t…