Australians get a bigger societal bang for their government spending buck. There’s barely an Irish family that doesn’t have a ...

In contrast, Irish radicals who covet extreme social, political or economic change have (so far) found their aspirations ...

From a macroeconomic perspective, maybe for the first time ever, the major problem in Ireland is a supply side problem: demand is surging, but supply is not responding. It is not a case of deficient ...

What a week to be thinking about the world and geopolitics! I’ve never seen anything like this. It’s not clear whether you, me or anyone else can stomach 3½ more years of this carry on. Recently this ...

Half Julius Caesar, half Mattress Mick, Donald Trump has just declared economic war on the rest of the world, but what exactly did he say? Whisper it quietly, but in Ireland, given how bad things ...

The dysfunctional state of Ireland’s housing market was perfectly illustrated by the recent collapse of a derelict cottage on Dublin’s Grand Canal. As hard as it might be to believe, this property is ...

No matter what some people might argue, Ireland needs immigrants. This economy and society cannot survive without them. From healthcare to high-tech, construction to hospitality, the country would ...

Not that many people know that The Wizard of Oz, one of America’s most-loved films, is based on the arcane economic world of monetary policy. L Frank Baum’s novel is a disguised critique of the folly ...

We are about to be “tariffed” and this will have a significant impact on Ireland’s economic model, entirely based as it is on open, free and ubiquitous trade, the more the better. There’s nothing we ...

How did Ireland arrive at this misunderstanding of economic prerogatives? The conversation centred on trying to understand why a government in a European democracy that is facing serious ...

In the 1998 movie The Horse Whisperer, Robert Redford is a man with a special ability to communicate with horses and, using a combination of emotional intelligence and body language, put them at ease, ...