In a world of negative interest rates, worries about deflation and anaemic growth, one could easily form the impression that price growth or inflation has become a thing of the past, something to be housed in a financial history museum
When the Fine Gael-led minority government took office three-and-a-half years ago, few believed it would last this long. Along the way, there has been a change of taoiseach, the resignations of two cabinet ministers and the passage of three budgets
It is easy to get lost in the welter of economic statistics that the modern, data-led capitalist ...
All political lives end in failure, Enoch Powell once observed. But he never comprehended the mor...
Quite simply those opposing Brexit, plus those opposing a no-deal Brexit, must find a way to arrest the momentum building behind a crash-out scenario on October 31
When it comes to healthcare, our propensity for aspirational report writing has been dwarfed by chronic implementation deficit disorder
In the fantasy world of Brexit, we are invited to believe that the more things stay the same, the...
Ryanair made a seminal move in late 2017 to recognise unions. Since then, there has been a sense ...
The relationship between a state and its citizens is a complex, subtle and slowly evolving one. B...
The 50th anniversary of Operation Banner should serve as a warning to us all: any short-term cris...
The geo-strategic contest between the US and China has entered a new and unpredictable phase. Las...
Up to now, the warnings from various institutions have been dismissed: the Bank of England, the c...
Financial markets are unpredictable. Stocks go up and down, investors come and go, profits rise a...
Last week, the government announced it was overhauling the much-criticised television licence fee...
Nothing like the National Asset Management Agency was ever created before in Ireland, and arguabl...
