As minister you can do almost anything, but you are answerable for everything
If Greece leaves the euro, the country faces years of life-altering hyperinflation and turmoil. And the eurozone faces severe instability.
The troika’s strategy has created an unsustainable debt spiral which has pushed the country to the very edge of the abyss
It’s fatuous to pretend that GPs are immune from the laws of economics
SFA Conference: The coalition needs to gear the next budget towards the backbone of our economy
We had rent control in Ireland between the 1940s and 1980s, and they didn’t work then
The lack of trust in how tax is spent is the public sector’s own fault
Ireland’s unemployment levels are falling fast, but many areas are not feeling much of the recovery
Michael Noonan’s comments about people who ‘will never work’ show how out of touch he is with the reality of what is actually happening to the long-term unemployed
Sure, there was a degree of backslapping, but the spring statement by Noonan and Howlin was impressive in a number of ways
We have gone bust three times since independence, each time largely because of the composition of our tax structure
As the banking inquiry prepares to question the big players, political grandstanding is the last thing we need
The economic threat has abated. But Germany may run out of patience with Greece
Why do you pay your taxes? One school of thought says you pay through gritted teeth b...
Nothing is normal any more as central banks intervene in markets in a big way around the globe
