When their grandson, Mark Carney, was in charge of sterling as governor of the Bank of England, he kept a print of Aghagower ...

Ireland’s housing crisis is escalating. Rents rose 4.4 per cent in the first quarter alone, the same amount as the whole of last year. Rents are now 7.8 per cent higher than a year ago, 40 per cent ...

When you are in a crisis, the choice is never between good and bad – it’s always between bad and worse. Ireland has a housing crisis. We have far too many people and not enough homes for them. We ...

Half Julius Caesar, half Mattress Mick, Donald Trump has just declared economic war on the rest of the world, but what exactly did he say? Whisper it quietly, but in Ireland, given how bad things ...

From a macroeconomic perspective, maybe for the first time ever, the major problem in Ireland is a supply side problem: demand is surging, but supply is not responding. It is not a case of deficient ...

How did Ireland arrive at this misunderstanding of economic prerogatives? The conversation centred on trying to understand why a government in a European democracy that is facing serious ...

Demography is destiny. The single most important statistic in any developed economy is the population size. When planning for the future, the most critical forecast concerns the number of people in ...

It’s keep-the-head-down time. In the week when Donald Trump’s latest hissy fit has led to the imposition of 10 per cent tariffs across the board, no country wants to appear on his mercantilist radar ...

The dysfunctional state of Ireland’s housing market was perfectly illustrated by the recent collapse of a derelict cottage on Dublin’s Grand Canal. As hard as it might be to believe, this property is ...

In 1992, I moved into a flat on Parliament Street in Dublin city centre. Back then, the four residents of the refurbished 18th-century building were the only people living on the street. Yes, you read ...

Is Ireland the worst run country in Europe? How can we waste so much public money so quickly in so many ways? Has there ever been a country that has achieved so little from so much spending? Apologies ...