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This will be the Coalition’s most politically difficult budget. The Covid-19 budgets were the most dramatic and risky – vast sums were being...
Be careful what you believe. A month of budget spin lies ahead. And this year it will be worse than ever as the political system tries to come to...
Let’s take a look behind the headline census figures published this week by the Central Statistics Office, showing 500,000 Irish adults living with...
Helping you to live your best life is big business now. We are living in what has been called the “experience economy”, where we are being sold...
The curious tale of two sums of money – €120,000 and €150,000 – dominated the week. These are the amounts by which Ryan Tubridy’s pay was...
The playbook in response to the interlinked cost-of-living and housing crises is now predictable. Sinn Féin calls for something, the Government...
Over the years, the Irish economy has tended to be either up or down. Booming or crashing. And so it is understandable that we focus on the dangers of...
It is all too easy to get caught up in the short-term news in the housing market – the just-published house price figures, the European Central...
Twenty years. That is the length of time it takes to plan and build a new rail line in Ireland, Green Party leader Eamon Ryan observed this week....
Despite the billions sloshing around this is going to be a tricky budget for the Government. Expectations are high, not least because of promises from...
There is something about State companies and their mix of often-confused mandates, politically appointed boards and ministerial meddling which always...
In 1990, when I was a couple of years in business journalism, I wrote a report on tax payments from multinationals in Ireland rising sharply. All my...
In a week when motorists were queuing to save a few euro on a fill-up of petrol or diesel, and figures showed grocery prices up by over 16 per cent...
A central job of politics is how to raise and spend money. Ireland’s rollercoaster economic history has made this contested territory. The legacy of...
The risk that the big budget surpluses forecast over the next few years will be frittered away is real. Politicians are always tempted to spread money...
The risk that the big budget surpluses forecast over the next few years will be frittered away is real. Politicians are always tempted to spread money...
The pressure on the Government to “do something” about high prices led to a particularly acute outbreak of performance politics. The retailers...
The squeezed middle. Generation X. The forty-somethings. The people who pay for everything. Call them what you want, but there is one group in the...
The Department of Finance has been talking down the health of the public finances in recent years, warning that it could all go wrong if corporation...
Some things stop you dead in your tracks when you are scrolling online. This week on Twitter, Fine Gael launched a petition calling on energy...
This banking crisis is lingering on and this weekend officials across Europe will be nervy. Pressure on Deutsche Bank, the big German institution on...
The past week or so has shown yet again that no one really knows anything.
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We should not be even slightly surprised at the extent of debt writedowns offered by AIB – and by other banks – to highly indebted customers. The...
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