A good idea is a good idea - or at least a partially good idea. Tom Parlon, former PD parliamentarian and currently construction lobbyist supremo (yes, the same guy who said construction workers’ should be grateful to have their pay slashed) - he’s come up with a germ of a good idea. […]

Must have been a slow news week. The Sunday Tribune reported on ICTU’s proposals to combat inflation. They claimed they were submitted to the national pay talks two weeks ago. However, the pay talks had already collapsed. In fact, this is old news. The proposals were published two months […]

If you were to correct every misconception, every mistake, every misrepresentation - every piece of sloppy journalism regarding the economic facts that spews our every day in the Irish media, you’d gum up the worldwide net. For the sake of time and sanity, sometimes you let things slide. Until, that is, you come […]

The Labour Party is proposing a Private Member’s Bill that would require the Government to draw up a national strategy to combat fuel poverty. Party spokesperson, Liz McManus, TD, said:
‘The strategy would require the Minister to specify a comprehensive set of measures to ensure the efficient use of energy and set a target date for […]