Tomorrow Fintan O’Toole, Irish Times Deputy Editor, Author, Angry chap, and all-around ledge-bag will be giving a seminar from 4.30 to 6 in GL1-01 in the Library. Everyone interested in Irish public policy and public life should head along, it will be well worth it.
Update: A recording of the seminar is here.
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In today’s Irish Times, Fintan O’Toole calls for a bold restructuring of the Irish economy to cope with what will almost certainly be it’s worst performance in GDP terms for 60 years.
Fintan proposes a basic effective income tax of 25% on every one, with high earners having their incomes capped at 80,000 for [...]
I’m not the world’s biggest rap fan, but this is brilliant.
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Not entirely sure how I missed this, but my colleague Dr Tony Leddin has a piece called How wage agreements eroded competitiveness in the Irish Times describing the recent history of Ireland’s attempts to get to grips with the spiral of wage increases following inflation following wage agreements. It seems clear from [...]
Click below to listen to Dr Stephen ‘Absolutely-Context-Irish Times‘ Kinsella, Gerard O’Neill, and Ray Hammond spout off to Rachel English about Ireland in 2050. I wrote an article about it, you know.
I had a great time at the interview, though I was quite nervous. Rachel was excellent, and I learned a lot from talking to [...]