Sinn Féin is benefitting from the suspension of disbelief
Opinion
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Champions needed
Strong, principled women like Christine Buckley are essential for cultural change
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Hypocrisy about whistleblowing
Official Ireland is indifferent. This time about Donegal
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By John Gormley. Debacle is the word most often used to describe the setting up of Irish Water. I always took the view that the need for water charges was self evident, but I could never see the justification for the establishment of yet another quango. Fine Gael and Labour, who pledged in their respective […]
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Debt’s dominion
Is Ireland’s level of debt sustainable? The Troika drew attention to our high public debt in their final review of Ireland’s bailout programme. The first few weeks of 2014 have seen good news on Ireland’s cost of borrowing on the bond markets and the decision by Moody’s ratings agency, after all the others, to upgrade […]
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The enjoyment of good health is unevenly distributed across Irish society. People living in deprived communities and on lower incomes experience poorer health and live shorter lives. Evidence is emerging of the negative impacts of New Austerity on the health and wellbeing of the population.
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Third Level Education Founders
Over the last two decades, Irish economic growth has been driven by financial and investment bubbles. Each one was fuelled by the ad hoc nature of our policymakers’ responses to shifts in global economic trends and their penchant for fetishising international policy fads. by Constantin Gurdgiev In the mid-1990s, propelled by the US-led dot.com industry […]