Yesterday evening, Karl Whelan of Irish Economy entered the wages and competitiveness discussion which stemmed from Philip Lane’s post written as a reaction to David Begg’s op-ed column in the Irish Times yesterday. Whelan provided his usual thorough, nuanced analysis which reads like a mainstream economic cheat-sheet on every aspect of the issue for the [...]

Spare a thought for Mary and Sean. Both work full-time - not great paying jobs but together they pull in 60K with overtime. They need it. They bought a house three years ago, paying over the odds, but with a one-year old child they had to leave their one-bed flat. Their second child came along [...]

Here’s the fourth and final programme in the Looking Left series, and the topic is the newspaper of the Communist Party of Ireland, the Irish Socialist. Cedarlounge has a great post on the paper here.
The panel is made up of Dr. Ann Matthews, Tom Redmond, Mick O’Reilly, and myself, and is presented by Daniel [...]

Is Not About the Yank!
In much the same way that the queen of England thinks that her country is smell of fresh paint, so all professional cycle jockeys are thinking that France is smell of Domesto and ¡Cillit Bof! This is because every year, when the Tour de France is passing through, the towns and [...]

Although the debate about the Lisbon Treaty is starting to hot up there is one matter that has not got that much attention, yet, perhaps because it is for an election which may or may not proceed. Should the Irish people vote yes in the Lisbon Treaty, however, the post of President of the European [...]

On the One News at One, RTE’s business editor David Murphy concluded his piece on the National Treasury Management Agency’s Annual Report:
‘The other problem is that the credit rating agencies have downgraded Ireland’s debt. International markets will want to see serious spending cuts so the country can stop bleeding money day after day.’
There are three [...]