Today is a day of national strike by Ireland’s public sector workers. Speaking about today’s strike on yesterday’s Morning Ireland, Aine Lawlor and Shay Cody of IMPACT came very close to blows – verbally, of course – when discussing current trends in...

The latest Daft report is out today, with a commentary by Charlie Larkin of Trinity College and the Swan Group. The report covers the rental market up to the end of October. The main finding is that rents are at their lowest level since the Daft index...

One of my favourite scenes in the Simpsons is a dialogue between Mayor Quimby and one of his advisers, as an angry mob of citizens outside chants “Down with Taxes! Down with Taxes!” but also refuses to countenance any reduction in public spending (in...

In the last couple of weeks, the IMF have released their latest World Economic Outlook, entitled ‘Sustaining the Recovery‘. The last two Outlooks have been researched and published at times of huge economic uncertainty, April this year and October last...

Technical issues with the measurement of inflation… surely the dryest of dry topics, right? Well, I guess everything’s dry until it becomes a multi-billion euro issue, at which point it becomes very interesting. I’d be surprised if too many...