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April 23, 2013 by Seán Whelan
By Sean Whelan, Economics Correspondent “The Commission does not believe that cutbacks are the solution to Europe’s challenges. But, yes, sound public finances are an essential part of sustainable growth”. – Jose Manuel Barroso, Friends of Europe Roundtable, October 2011 … Continue reading
April 23, 2013 by David Murphy
By Business Editor David Murphy Householders will have to pay water bills in future. It is not entirely clear when that will happen. But the big question is whether they will be paying for an efficient well-run service? A draft … Continue reading
April 17, 2013 by Seán Whelan
By Seán Whelan Economics Correspondent The good news from Olivier Blanchard, the chief economist of the IMF and main author of its World Economic Outlook, is that only ten advanced countries have such big debt and deficit problems that they … Continue reading
April 16, 2013 by Seán Whelan
by Seán Whelan, Economics Correspondent. Michael Noonan invited the Brussels-based economic think tank Bruegel to contribute a thought provoking paper to the ECOFIN meeting in Dublin Castle last Friday on Europe’s growth problem. Director Jean Pisani-Ferry and economist Zsolt Darvas … Continue reading
April 9, 2013 by Seán Whelan
by Economics Correspondent Seán Whelan Dublin Castle is the venue for this week’s meeting of EU Finance and Economics Ministers, along with Commissioners Olli Rehn and Michel Barnier, and the governors of the euro zone’s central banks. Fresh from … Continue reading
April 8, 2013 by David Murphy
by Business Editor David Murphy Later this month the Department of Finance will update its forecasts for the Irish economy. Economic forecasts matter; yet they are frequently wrong and fail to predict important developments.
March 25, 2013 by David Murphy
by Business Editor David Murphy The revised Cypriot bailout is startling. Not only does it aim to sort out the banking mess, it also intends to extinguish part of the Cypriot economy and replace it with something else; but what? … Continue reading
March 19, 2013 by David Murphy
by Business Editor David Murphy On the surface, the Cyprus bailout may have seemed relatively straightforward. The island originally requested aid in 2011, and it was intended to be a small rescue. Yet the Cypriot aftershock now risks undoing all … Continue reading
March 15, 2013 by David Murphy
by Business Editor David Murphy The Central Bank’s deputy governor Matthew Elderfield appears to be strong-arming the banks into cutting deals with some over stretched borrowers. The lenders don’t want to admit that is what is happening, but judging from … Continue reading
March 13, 2013 by Seán Whelan
By Seán Whelan Economics Correspondent With all the comment – some bordering on the hysterical – about Department of Finance boss John Moran’s answers to questions on mortgage repossessions at the Public Accounts Committee last week, I thought it … Continue reading
The first bottom-fermented beer - Pilsner - was brewed 170 years ago. World Report's Rob Cameron on his love/hate relationship with it
Oxford Dictionaries has crowned 'omnishambles', which was coined on a satirical British television programme, as its word of the year
In the latest part of the Ambassador series, Cormac Ó hEadhra interviews Denmark's Ambassador to Ireland
The National Roads Authority says the most dangerous bends in the country are to be made safer
Petrel Resources claims there could be over one billion barrels of oil off the south-west coast of Ireland
