Shane Coleman doesn’t believe. CORI recently published its exhaustive Socio-Economic Review 2008 – a 240 page report detailing all aspects of poverty in Ireland. Contained therein was the startling fact…

The new union, UNITE (the merged ATGWU and AMICUS unions) has just published a report on Irish wages which is sure to prove controversial. It flatly contradicts the prevailing consensus…

Somewhere on a distant planet a group of people employed by the National Irish Bank labour away on a publication which you may have come across, ‘The Emerald Isle: The…

Last week the Labour Party leader, Eamon Gilmore, TD, made the first tentative steps towards putting the party on the economic policy ‘map’ in his speech before the SIPTU National…

Spare a thought for Robert O’Byrne. He resents being made ashamed that he is a member of the middle class. He complains that when the homeless die in the streets,…

Paedar Kirby is one of the leading proponents of the theory of the ‘competition state’. The concept is that the state subordinates the welfare needs of it citizens in favour…

Man, it’s hard just to live. Bank of Ireland Private Banking has just produced its second ‘Wealth of the Nation’ report, which is a strange title because really it’s about…

Conor McCabe is doing excellent work on the Census over at Dublin Opinion, undermining lazy analysis that passes into received wisdom, by just . . . well . . looking…

The always readable Richard Delevan has a bit of fun in his recent Sunday Tribune column, tweaking the noses of liberals and would-be radicals (or, at least, Fintan O’Toole and…