Paul Sweeney: There is some good news on the Irish economy from Eurostat. But hidden in the text is a warning to another member state, Luxe...

Paul Sweeney: The Minister for Health Simon Harris insists that “his ‘golden share’ in the new €300 million State-funded national materni...

Nat O'Connor: Various lobbyists have used the opportunity of Brexit to repeat their frequent calls for Ireland to lower its income tax r...

Katja Lehto-Komulainen:  In Rome , EU leaders pledged to build a “prosperous and sustainable Europe” where “economies converge”. Fine words...

Sinead Pembroke: For decades now, the retail sector has become synonymous with part-time, low-paid and insecure contracts. However, this ha...

James Wickham: There’s a lot of building to do: Ireland needs a housing building programme, a renewal of infrastructure, investment in pu...

Paul Sweeney: With the many controversies around the very poor management of the Guards,  it is worth seeing what the Irish policing servic...

Paul Sweeney: They say if Daniel O’Donnell left Donegal, the average income in the county would fall. It is still low even with Daniel livi...

Alicja Bobek:  Since the financial crisis, and through the recovery, we hear more about the increase of precarious work. Precarious employme...

Nat O'Connor: At Belfast  Imagine! Festival of Ideas and Politics , I hosted a session:  Could Northern Ireland be an independent me...

Paul Sweeney: De-regulation, privatisation, outsourcing, low taxes, bad housing policy, speculation, regressive tax policy, and poor public...

Andrew Watt:  In 2011 Colin Crouch wrote a noted book entitled The strange non-death of neoliberalism . In it he discussed why neoliberalism...

Paul Sweeney:   The Government strategy for privatising AIB has focused solely on the art of the deal – the price, how much to sell, and whe...

Jan Cremers:   Since the introduction of the European internal market, company law has been increasingly judged in terms of its impact on ‘c...

Proinnsias Breathnach: The role of intellectual property (IP) rights in the tax avoidance strategies of multinational corporations (MNCs) i...

Paul Sweeney: There has been a lot of media discussion recently about the increasing possibility of robots displacing workers.  W...

Nat O'Connor : Programmer, investor and essayist Paul Graham has written a thoughtful  counter-argument about economic inequality (link)...

Paul Sweeney: A major speech made by the Taoiseach last Thursday 16 th February on proposed changes in Irish economic policy was lost in ...

James Wickham:  Is there only one way to run a company?  If any group of people get together for a common economic activity, must they orga...

Sinéad Pembroke: As anyone who has a family-member in need of homecare knows, private homecare is very expensive. But like childcare, what ...