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PSC: Compulsory or Mandatory? Housing Out Of Hand, Strategic Communications
From E-voting to water charges, there have been plenty of examples of governments getting into hot water over a 'sensible' plan emanating from the ci…
8 years, 11 months ago
Housing Crisis: Time for the State to Build
Can we fix a housing market bedevilled by perverse incentives and bottlenecks?How important have lobbying, vested interests and ideology been in dete…
8 years, 11 months ago
Britain's Border Proposal, Preparing for Failure, Craughwell 2018
Britain has just released a negotiating paper with details of how it sees a future UK-EU border on this island operating. Here with hot takes are Fia…
8 years, 11 months ago
Inside Story - Simon Carswell Visits Ireland's Ghost Estates
Ghost estates - residential building developments began during the boom and abandoned when the crash came - became synonymous with the excesses of th…
9 years ago
Brexit: Fintan O'Toole & Jeffrey Donaldson on Dublin's Tough Talk
DUP MP Jeffrey Donaldson and Irish Times columnist Fintan O'Toole discuss how well Taoiseach Leo Varadkar is playing Dublin's hand in the rather comp…
9 years ago
Sophie Long on Varadkar, Brexit and the DUP
Former Progressive Unionist Party member and feminist academic Sophie Long gives her view on Taoiseach Leo Varadkar’s recent comments about Ireland’s…
9 years ago
Don't Party Like It's 1999
When Government returns to its work in the autumn, the difficult and politically dangerous work of managing our economic recovery by means of the bud…
9 years ago
David Goodhart On Rethinking Political Divides
In his book "The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics", journalist David Goodhart attempts to provide a framework for un…
9 years ago
Water Refunds, GNI in A Bottle, Brexit Pessimism
Fine Gael have found the money to repay water charges to those who complied back in 2014, marking perhaps the final chapter in a terrible humiliation…
9 years ago
End of Term, Paschal's Loose Change, The Observing Taoiseach
The summer break is looming in Leinster House and TDs are rushing to get things legislation through after an underwhelming term. Minister for Finance…
9 years, 1 month ago