My talk for the social media summit is here.
More or less randomnly, and thanks to a conversation my wife had with a TD and a Monk, I made […]
Parents are crossing their fingers and their toes. Novenas are being said. Girls are outperforming boys. The scramble for places […]
Like most of my generation, I live in, and on, my iPhone 6. This is not hyperbole. The fantastic (and […]
Here's my lecture on life cycle inequality (.pdf) for the Queens University Summer School on social welfare and social policy (.pdf). This was […]
Below are my slides (in .pdf) from the closing keynote of the Applied Stock-Flow consistent Macro-modelling summer school. I'm told a video […]
Donald Trump may be a sham, but his tax plans could expose the sham that makes us one of the […]
The decision last week by the Bank of England to cut interest rates to 0.25 per cent to offset some […]
We are just starting to see the effects of Brexit on the British and Irish economies, and guess what? It’s […]
Can you trust charities any more? In an inefficient and poorly regulated sector with huge overlap in terms of service […]
Today, I’m writing as an academic and as the Acting Chair of the Higher Education Authority, because I think it’s […]
There’s something Dickensian about the contrasting approaches of the Irish and British governments to the Brexit crisis. Remember Dickens’s opening […]
The shock of Brexit has not yet faded. It may take years to fully absorb the consequences of what has […]
For once, Ireland’s civil servants got it exactly right. No, I haven’t been hitting the Blue Nun early. Honest. The […]
At present, we are days away from Britain’s decision to stay within the EU or to leave it. The polls […]
We have bankrupted the state three times since 1950. Each time the broad pattern was the same: an international shock […]
