Irish Economy:  Sir Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, gave a speech last night in which he said: "Such is the scale of th...

Colm McCarthy, UCD economist, wrote in The Sunday Independent yesterday: "Spare a thought for Clare County Council. On Monday, it em...

Eamon Gilmore, Ireland's Tánaiste (deputy prime minister) this week told an international audience via CNBC, that Ireland...

The Irish Economy blog has a thread on a comment article today in the Financial Times by two Spanish academics, who call on the prime min...

In early 2009, I compared the broken governance systems in Japan and Ireland even though both countries have got new governments after lo...

Irish Economy 2012: Daft.ie reports today that while the average asking price in the capital did fall in Q2 (by 1.2%), taking the first ha...

Ireland is among countries where private sector workers face huge falls in pensions income. In the period 2001-10 in the 34 mainly OECD de...

An article by Derek Scally, German correspondent of The Irish Times, on Chancellor Merkel, was published on June 02, 2012. This was my ...

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...