The euro zone’s contagion calendar
Today (Nov 15th): Is the bailout on or off? Well, that depends on what you mean by “bailout” – according to Brian Cowen, it’s a “pejorative term”. He prefers to say that the Government is “engaging...
View ArticleThe red line in corporate communications
After two years of cuts and cut-threats; after a week of high-level Government stuttering, evasiveness and alleged ”pejorative terms”; after days of being left in the dark, finally the nation’s...
View ArticleThe export factor
Another press release reaches us from the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation. Is it just the thing to brighten up our afternoons? According to Minister of State for Trade and Commerce Billy...
View ArticleCowen accepts the bailout but not the responsibility
As a result of an ill-judged edit, viewers of the national broadcaster missed the liveliest and most telling part of the press conference held tonight at Government Buildings by the current Taoiseach...
View ArticleStill waiting for “new faces” in Government, S&P downgrades Ireland
Poor Frank Gill. The Standard & Poor’s sovereign debt analyst was one of the first people to set our democracy alarm bells ringing when in March 2009 he surmised there was a need for “new faces” in...
View ArticleDial D-A-I-L for economic carnage
“What can the Government do to boost growth?” it asks on a fold-it-and-keep wallet-sized summary of “the National Recovery Plan, 2011-2014″. There will be plenty of room for it in our wallets anyway...
View ArticleThe National Pensions Reserve Fund: an obituary
The National Pensions Reserve Fund (NPRF), which has died aged nine from infanticide caused by multiple stab wounds, was born under the premise that it would prepare the Irish State for a pensions...
View ArticleRejoice! We are free! says the Heritage Foundation
Ireland is the seventh freest economy in the world, according to the conservative US thinktank the Heritage Foundation, an organisation for which the ability of millionaires to transform themselves...
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Would-be entrepreneurs shun the great shake-out
Enter the dragons... with presenter Richard Curran. Photo: RTE So it turns out the Chinese word for crisis is not actually opportunity.* For some employees facing redundancy this has nevertheless...
View ArticleBudget 2012: What have we learned? A 20-point guide
1. Budget 2012 is the Twilight: Breaking Dawn of budgets: gruesome set-pieces, unconvincing delivery of lines and should never have been split into two parts. 2. With no careers available to speak...
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