Blog Archive

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, …

The Collapse of Ireland’s Finances (again): A Reinterpretation

Robert Sweeney 19/02/2016

Robert Sweeney: As the election season reaches full swing, the inevitable claims of who did what and when, and what this means in the future …

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