Before you know it, everything is reduced to a morality match about the occupiers and the occupied so that landlords, ...

And who will pay? Well, the young of course, via higher and higher house prices. The Department of Finance says that ...

Ireland acts as if the good times will last forever – and is drifting toward populist economics and bloated spending ...

Today, the key battle for the Australian worker’s living standards is the same throughout the English-speaking world: the ...

The dilapidated state of our cities and towns is an embarrassment. The sight of such urban vandalism should make us wince. With a homeless crisis, vacant buildings, no matter how outdated, are a ...

When it comes to business, one of the best descriptions of the Irish I have ever heard is that we prefer to be liked rather than feared. Affable, reasonably generous, good fun and chatty, most of the ...

Half Julius Caesar, half Mattress Mick, Donald Trump has just declared economic war on the rest of the world, but what exactly did he say? Whisper it quietly, but in Ireland, given how bad things ...

From a macroeconomic perspective, maybe for the first time ever, the major problem in Ireland is a supply side problem: demand is surging, but supply is not responding. It is not a case of deficient ...

One of the joys of writing a weekly column is the unusual tributaries explored, often sparked by real-world events. Today I’ve been watching old clips of The Godfather, in particular Marlon Brando’s ...

We are about to be “tariffed” and this will have a significant impact on Ireland’s economic model, entirely based as it is on open, free and ubiquitous trade, the more the better. There’s nothing we ...