The current easing is not driven by new supply - buyers have reached the limit of what they can afford and the homes ...

Check out some of the other great posts in this blog.

By our own high standards, educational results in Ireland are slipping. But not all the problems are technology-related ...

Ireland’s housing crisis is escalating. Rents rose 4.4 per cent in the first quarter alone, the same amount as the whole of last year. Rents are now 7.8 per cent higher than a year ago, 40 per cent ...

As England and Norway battle it out in the World Cup on Saturday evening, it is worth focusing on one economic story that sums up the different philosophies of both countries. In the late 1960s, both ...

It’s keep-the-head-down time. In the week when Donald Trump’s latest hissy fit has led to the imposition of 10 per cent tariffs across the board, no country wants to appear on his mercantilist radar ...

Half Julius Caesar, half Mattress Mick, Donald Trump has just declared economic war on the rest of the world, but what exactly did he say? Whisper it quietly, but in Ireland, given how bad things ...

When you are in a crisis, the choice is never between good and bad – it’s always between bad and worse. Ireland has a housing crisis. We have far too many people and not enough homes for them. We ...

À La Mort Subite (Sudden Death) is one of the most celebrated cafes in Brussels and was a regular haunt of Jacques Brel, Belgium’s most influential cultural export. Singing theatrically in French, ...

From a macroeconomic perspective, maybe for the first time ever, the major problem in Ireland is a supply side problem: demand is surging, but supply is not responding. It is not a case of deficient ...