John FitzGerald: Curbing skilled immigration from outside the EU would be a serious mistake
Calls to reduce such immigration to ease pressures on infrastructure would only makes things worse
Patrick Honohan
Trackers: The People v The Banks. Riveting insight into misery inflicted by Irish lenders
Television: Absorbing documentary is full of faceless villains acting with reckless abandon
Ireland’s post-crash employment trajectory is remarkable
CSO’s data on labour market reads well in context of slowing global demand
Governments must act fast when the economic winds turn
A short, sharp shock is far more preferable than a prolonged slump
There is one risk to Ireland’s future progress that dwarfs even pandemics, terrorism and tariffs
The ‘hidden curriculum’ of nod and wink in the civil service leads to widespread disregard for public money
Ireland surfed the wave of globalisation as long as we could. Here’s what we should do next
Donald Trump certainly poses a threat to the Irish economy but there is much the State can do to safeguard our economic welfare
Patrick Honohan: Ireland’s tax system might have been inspired by Alice Through the Looking Glass
What may have seemed a pragmatic way of simplifying tax assessment for Apple in the early days was leveraged into a huge tax-avoidance scheme
NTMA spends €37bn mopping up legacy of notorious IBRC promissory notes
State keen to close the door on the last of the debt used to prop up Anglo Irish Bank and Irish Nationwide whose failure triggered the financial crisis
Is the housing market about to turn?
There are signs globally that the Covid-induced surge in prices is abating
Cliff Taylor: Why is the State giving €200 to people with bulging bank accounts?
Idea State can protect us all from inflation is dangerous fallacy
Fintan Drury: Brian Cowen put country first, party second
The former taoiseach's friend and adviser on Cowen’s troubled final years in politics
Are Central Bank mortgage rules containing home prices or fuelling crisis?
Lack of supply and undeveloped rental market key factors in house price growth
The pricey isle? How standard of living in Ireland compares with EU
Smart Money: Headline GDP figures suggest that Irish people are well-off but are we?
Ireland ranks 13th in EU living standards survey
Figures focus solely on consumption and excludes multinational accounting which inflates Irish GDP
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Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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