Losing weight doesn’t have to be a major undertaking, providing you’re willing to make the necessary tweaks to your everyday habits that mean the difference between oh-boy! and o-bese. The U.S. National Institutes of Health report that a net loss of a mere 231 calories every day for a month is enough to guarantee a [...]

Brian Keegan from the Chartered Accountants Ireland says that finding €500 million in tax revenue for Budget 2011 will be ‘very difficult to find’. There are no easy choices, he writes in the Sunday Business Post. He does flesh out two ideas - a flat-rate property tax which could raise €500 million and a reduction [...]

According to Brian Cowen today, NTMA’s Oliver Whelan has “made it very clear that we are seen as a stable economy, forging ahead with taking decisions.” This was said in relation to Moody’s decision to downgrade Irish debt to Aa2 from Aa1. So, while rating agencies carry the usual health warning considering their part in [...]

Statement from the Communist Party of Ireland
The announcement by Bank of Ireland that it would be cutting its workforce by 750 jobs to be imposed over the next two years is clearly just the beginning. These job losses come on the back of thousands of jobs already gone from the financial services sector and at [...]

IBEC has just released a ‘report’ (which Finfact’s Michael Hennigan has described as ‘a marketing brochure’) that highlights the Irish economy’s strengths – educated labour force, low-tax regime, falling prices, etc. They probably released this as an antidote to their previous economic commentary which revised downwards key domestic indicators (GNP, investment, etc.). So, it was [...]

There is a new Think Piece on the TASC website co-authored by one of our regular contributors, Justin Frewen.
Called The Socio-Economic Realities of Mental Health, by Justin and co-author Dr. Anna Datta, the paper can be downloaded from the TASC site here.
“An ever-growing body of research indicates that the failure to adequately tackle mental health [...]

Remember a few months ago, when ICTU proposed postponing the target year for Maastricht compliance to 2017? There was a widespread rending of garments and universal condemnation of this most irresponsible and reckless proposition. I recall an interview with our erstwhile Minister O’Dea who went apoplectic at the idea predicting economic Armageddon and the wrath [...]