Category: Brexit
Should Ireland Stay in the EU?
Nat O'Connor 04/07/2017
Former Irish ambassador Ray Bassett has written a detailed report for the UK think-tank Policy Exchange entitled After Brexit, Will Ireland be Next …
Ireland's Multi-interface Periphery Development Model
David Begg 15/06/2017
Theresa May’s election failure and Corbyn’s unexpected success have undermined the case for a hard Brexit. Her gamble to increase her majority in …
Economic Inequality and Populism
Nat O'Connor 09/06/2017
On 31 May, I delivered a paper on economic inequality and the rise of populism at the RIA's annual international affairs conference (Retreat from …
Brexit, Income Tax and the Social Market Economy
Nat O'Connor 21/04/2017
Various lobbyists have used the opportunity of Brexit to repeat their frequent calls for Ireland to lower its income tax rates. For example, EY …
What have Idi Amin, Erich Honecker and Theresa May in common?
James Wickham 23/01/2017
Welcome to the biggest loss of citizenship rights in recent European history... Brexit is about taking away citizenship rights from millions of …
Brexit: What does Teresa May’s veiled Brexit threat really mean?
Paul Sweeney 18/01/2017
Brexit is a slow train crash. Most damage will be done to Britain, but some damage will be done to the European project and to the other European 27 …
Brexit in Numbers for Ireland
Paul Sweeney 07/12/2016
The CSO has published a useful paper on what the exit of the United Kingdom from the European Union will mean for Ireland. We have seen that there …
Enough of the post-Trump hand-wringing
Maura Adshead 15/11/2016
A colleague who studies Russian politics tells the anecdote about the Russian economics minister, holding a press conference after the 2008 financial …
London on the Liffey? Some impacts of the relocation of financial services jobs to Dublin
James Wickham 21/08/2016
James Wickham: Post-Brexit it is widely believed that Ireland will benefit from the relocation of some financial services employment from London to …
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Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
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Robert Sweeney
Robert Sweeney is a policy analyst at TASC and focuses on issues surrounding Irish …