The Biggest Talking Point of the Fianna Fail Ard Fheis is…
…No, not Brian Cowen’s speech. Or even Noel Dempsey’s sulphuric warm-up act. Or Mary Hanafin’s impressive act. Or the worrying age profile. Or the subdued atmosphere. Or the extraordinary profile given...
View ArticleDemocracy and Economics
The reason Ireland’s credit-rating has gone down is largely to do with the guarantee to the banks and the fact that we really couldn’t meet the debt if they all collapsed at once. That’s my reading of...
View ArticleReshuffle – early verdict
I’ve written a piece of analysis for the online edition, which should be going up about now. Here is it (written slightly less informally than the blog). There was never even a remote possibility that...
View ArticleWelcome to the Age of Uncertainty
They say you can’t compare opinion polls from different companies but I’m never exactly sure why and people will do so anyway. Thus it is comforting for the Yes side that today’s Millward Brown...
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