As Budget Day approaches you will see and hear the intensity of predictions and analysis from the ever growing phalanx of pundits will increase.   As varied and inaccurate as some of these predictions may be, there does appear to be a growing consensus that

On the Late Late Show a few months back I raised concerns about the Greens attitude to collective cabinet responsibility. At the time I was talking about the Greens agreeing unpopular measures at the cabinet table and then getting their tweeting colleagues and apparatchiks to

Since I left Government nine months ago, I have committed my political thinking to finding new and innovative ways of restoring confidence in our capacity to earn our way out of our economic difficulties.   It has been the consistent and re-occurring theme of the

IBEC’s Danny McCoy summed up the current dilemma very neatly recently on RTE’s Primetime. Talking about such positives as continuing export growth and positive balance of payments, he found himself accused of just wanting to “get the good news out there”.   The IBEC Director General

To paraphrase Jim Callaghan (the former UK Prime Minister not the FF Dublin City Councillor) “Bad news can be half-way around the world before good news has got its boots on”.   Recent stories of Jim McDaid’s resignation and the holding of the Donegal South

The recent Dail economic debate turned out to be more interesting than I had expected, particularly the contributions from back benchers on both sides. Whether the 3% deficit can be achieved without running the risk of deflating the economy to destruction depends almost exclusively on the