Blog Archive

Paper by Niamh Hardiman - Impact of the Crisis on the Irish Political System

Slí Eile 29/11/2009

Slí Eile: The paper by Niamh Hardiman last Thursday has been widely acclaimed as a signficant contribution to the debate on political economy. You …

Ireland and Dubai

Paul Sweeney 29/11/2009

Paul Sweeney: The Irish economy could collapse? Is this possible? The editorial in Saturday’s Financial Times (28th November 2009), on Dubai, …

4th Principle: Defend public services in health, education, welfare and housing

Slí Eile 26/11/2009

Slí Eile: In recent previous blogs I have suggested a number of high-level Principles to inform a progressive alternative to the current TINA. Here …

Guest post by JJR: Shifting the tax burden from business to employees will not create jobs

JJR 26/11/2009

JJR: Fine Gael frontbenchers may not take their lead from the Obama administration, but when White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel, said last year …

New report shows over €8 out of every €10 of pensions tax relief goes to top earners

Gerard Hughes 25/11/2009

Gerry Hughes: In a series of reports on our pension system, TASC and the TCD Pension Policy Research Group have argued that the tax relief on pension …

Getting behind the Madoff Curve?

James Wickham 24/11/2009

James Wickham: One convenient justification for high pay is that the more people are paid, the harder they work and the greater their output will be. …

The hall of mirrors

Michael Taft 24/11/2009

Michael Taft: A number of commentators have referred to the fact that Irish public expenditure is ‘rising faster’ than almost any other European …

Privatisation costs

24/11/2009

"Privatising healthcare is a costly business. Increasing privatisation in Ireland has coincided with an increase in health spending of, on average, …

A Social Dis-Grace

Slí Eile 23/11/2009

Slí Eile: "Why, then, is there such an emphasis on cutting public expenditure and on the McCarthy Report (when services in health, education, …

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