Shane Ross TD, a non-party right-wing member of the Dáil (Irish Parliament) has taken a brave step that is consistent with the rare evidence...

The Irish Department of Finance has published updated projections for the public finances. The current deficit reduction plan rests on rela...

John Moran, the new Secretary General of the Irish Department of Finance has issued a revision of a  'strategy' document for the p...

These are posts to two threads on the Irish economy blog: A Guest Post By Gavin Barrett: The Zero Impact Treaty? Some Observations About ...

Robert J. Shiller is Arthur M. Okun professor of economics at Yale University and a Fellow at the International Center for Finance at the...

Bird & Fortune - Financial crisis - Silly Money, Nov 08: Part 2/2 Bird Fortune - Financial crisis - Silly Money, Nov 08:

Irish Times columnist Fintan O'Toole writes today on the Eurozone Fiscal Compact treaty and the Irish referendum. He says banning K...

Philip R Lane, a professor of international macroeconomics at Trinity College Dublin,  wrote  in today's Irish Times on the fiscal compa...

Ireland is a very conservative place and the cocktail of inertia and an attitude resistance to change, often powered by vested interests, i...

The Irish appear to have little interest in reform despite economic crash and any changes in colonial era systems depend on continuing pres...

As the minutes tick toward midnight on Saturday and you are running out of conversation topics, why not bust out some trivia about the scie...

Democrats go after Mitt Romney with a scathing new ad that suggests the Republican presidential hopeful will say anything to get elected:

Greg Mankiw, a professor of economics at Harvard University says: "Chapter 19 of my favourite textbook has a case study on the economic...

Mark Twain, the American writer, was reputed to have said that a fool and his money are soon parted! The Rhine river by German artist An...

WorldIrish.com , a website for the Irish, or anyone who has an affinity with Ireland, "harnessing the power of existing social netw...

Richard Bruton speaking to a US-Irish conference in Dublin today, said he is working on a plan to create 200,000 net new jobs - -  effective...

A recent thread on the Irish Economy blog has been prompted by a comment from Paul Krugman, New York Times columnist, on austerity in Ire...

The American Tort Reform Association (ATRA) says Palm Beach, Florida-based personal injury lawyer Craig Goldenfarb has taken to trolling for...

There is no doubt that some people revel in bad news while others thrive on the public attention that messages of gloom bring them.  This...

The suggestion in the Irish Times that the Government may give additional powers to an agency such as MABS, the money and budgeting advice ...

Prof. Morgan Kelly delivered the Hubert Butler Annual lecture on Saturday in Kilkenny as part of their Arts Festival. This is a contribut...

Last week, Moody's, the credit ratings agency, downgraded Ireland's sovereign debt to below investment grade or 'junk' stat...

The following is a post to a thread on German and Irish competitiveness in recent years. Standard & Poor’s reported in 2009 that in ...

The following is from an Irish Economy Blog thread on an article in The Wall Street Journal: It’s odd that two academics could produce su...