Blog Archive
Good News on Climate Change
16/03/2016
Paul Sweeney: It is not often that we get good news on climate change, but a report from the International Energy Agency is positive and interesting. …
Lifetime Community Rating and Inequality
Nat O'Connor 13/03/2016
Nat O'Connor: We are coming up to the first anniversary of Lifetime Community Rating (LCR) in private health insurance and it is timely to consider …
Wealth rising at the top
Rory Hearne 09/03/2016
Rory Hearne: The increasing concentration of wealth at the top of society has become a major economic, social and political issue. It is surprising, …
The price of car dependency
James Wickham 08/03/2016
James Wickham: Three almost random stories about Dublin’s transport disaster. The first two show what happens if there is little investment in …
An EU Mirror Held Up To Ireland’s Economic Policies
07/03/2016
Paul Sweeney: In this final blog on the recent EU report on Ireland, a few more issues will be examined.We Irish are fascinated with how other …
The EU on Ireland's Lack of Investment and the Improving Irish Labour Market
Paul Sweeney 03/03/2016
Paul Sweeney: I continue my examination of the recent EU report on Ireland EU Country Specific Recs. Ireland. It recommends three priorities for EU …
Why the EU Commission is right to call for increased public investment in infrastructure
Paul Sweeney 01/03/2016
Paul Sweeney: The new EU report on the Irish Economy EU Ireland report 2016 makes for interesting reading, if only to see how Brussels views our …
Open government mid-term report shows need for sustained momentum behind reforms
Nuala Haughey 01/03/2016
Nuala Haughey: An independent report charting progress (and lack of progress) on Ireland’s open government reforms will be published in Dublin this …
Political accountability needs written record of government decisions
Nuala Haughey 29/02/2016
Nuala Haughey: The Oireachtas Inquiry into the Banking Crisis reviewed about 500,000 pages of documents from various bodies including banks, …
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Contributors
Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
Sean McCabe
Sean holds an B.Sc in Applied Physics from Dublin City University and an M.Sc. in …
Kirsty Doyle
Kirsty Doyle is a Researcher at TASC, working in the area of health inequalities. She is …