Repudiated in Ireland, the author found a receptive audience among writers such as Bellow, Roth and Mailer

Higgins has resorted to tiresome name-calling of the reactionary left, including their favourite term of abuse ‘neoliberal’

The most important number in the latest national accounts is noticeably off target

Prof Frank Barry describes World Bank estimates of low profit tax as ‘rubbish’

Report cites over 170 budget lines in ‘innovation space’

Think-tank points to labour market reforms and need for more competitiveness

But think tank says Government policies do not focus enough on long-term unemployment

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Jobs markets of fellow euro zone peripherals gives cause for despair

Exports and consumer spending rise but GDP growth fails to meet projections

Opinion: Weakness in Paris and Rome and irrelevance of UK make Berlin more vital

The Irish labour market performance has not matched that of Austria since 1950

Laws to criminalise the purchase of sex and place a floor under alcohol prices are not needed

Fall due to steep decline in bank bailout costs, down to €280m from €6.8bn in 2011

Largest ever increase in Dublin prices in June highlights two-speed market

Pent-up demand may explain the latest trend but repossessions could see price falls

Analysis: Seniors got more from the boom and have given less back as belts tightened in the bust

Comment: Business interaction doesn’t only reduce the propensity to violence out of self-interest – it brings people together

CSO figures show one in 10 over-65s were living on breadline in 2011

However, there is a long way to go

Zone returns to growth after longest recession since euro was created in 1999

GDP expands by 0.3 per cent in second quarter, marking end of downturn

Decline comes despite continued fall in household debt to lowest level since 2006

Household debt stands at €37,572 per capita, its lowest level since the end of 2006

Analysis: GDP figures due tomorrow may confirm the European economy has grown between the first and second quarters

Bottom-up pressure for reform is indispensable

Numbers suggest effects on manufacturing sector of international slump may be waning

Government budget goals remain broadly on track over first seven months of 2013

Criticism of Cabinet council is misplaced

Raft of new figures give little reason for optimism about recovery

Credit provision to businesses hits new post-crash low

Despite a continued gradual improvement in the labour market, consumers are spending less

Adjustment of €5.1 billion for 2014-15 is ‘necessary to maintain confidence of lenders’

Social insurance contributions are very low here compared to the average in the euro zone

CSO figures show a decline of 6,000 firms in 2011 compared to the year before

Pascal Saint-Amans makes comments in the wake of UK and US accusations about multinationals Irish tax situation

For the first time since crash five years ago prices were higher than a year earlier

Downsides are many but debt issue is crucial

It is about time we started asking why more people don’t start their own businesses

Recovery, delayed adjustment or stagnation

Think tank’s medium-term report urges Government to proceed with €3.1 billion cuts-and-taxes plan

Analysis: despite incisive work, the think tank can get it wrong; and its latest report is sadly lacking

Colin Murphy’s production ‘Guaranteed’ does a brilliant job of challenging the consensus about the events of September 2008

While Ireland’s economy remains stagnant, Europe is showing some signs of life

Analysis: The best thing the Government could do for the young would be to end the public-sector hiring freeze

Tax and spending figures remain broadly on track despite economy’s weakness

Analysis: A small budgetary buffer provides relief in the Department of Finance

Fall in consumer spending on the previous quarter is largest on record

Figures for balance of payments show rebalancing of economy continues

New figures on economic activity show no sign of recovery

Questions about Anglo remain in the sorry saga of Ireland’s banking collapse

Most measures of economic activity contracted in first quarter of 2013, CSO figures show

Irish officials in bilateral talks with key states in Brussels ahead of bank resolution summit

Former advisor to Brian Lenihan says people on low-interest loans are being subsidised by those who aren’t

Ireland’s low tax revenues are a result of low taxes on less well off, according to new study

Ireland’s EU position stronger, but big risks remain

A widespread rise in governments’ bond yields puts Ireland’s bailout exit at risk

Pharmaceuticals sector is in a period of flux as blockbuster drugs reach the end of their period of exclusivity

Analysis: closing the deficit means contractionary stance must continue

The still-powerful club was founded as a response to the economic crisis of the 1970s

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Rate of immigration to Ireland remains above the broader OECD average

As with economic growth, forecasting with any precession the property market is impossible

New report finds much remains to be done in moderning central and local government

Some sectors require more involvement by the state and some sectors less

Meaningful checks on those yielding power are needed

Study says house prices may be below fair values

Deficit narrows in first five months of 2013 ; spending broadly in line with projections

Recession has not led to cuts accordiing to central bank study

Property market continues year-long period of broad price stability

CSO data shows houses in capital worth 1.3% more than in April 2012 as prices up nationally by 0.8% in April

Former attorney general says decisions on EU treaty change contravene Constitution

We have a long history of sidelining those who dissent from the consensus in order to close down debate on important issues

Things were looking disastrous but recent job boost is great relief

Most of 7,700 jobs added to economy in first three months of year part-time rather than full-time

ISME describes situation as ’chronic’ despite 20,500 increase in numbers working

It also took issue with the “dysfunctional features of the institutional mortgage landscape

Future rises in the rate of tax on homes is unlikely if global trends are followed here

Ajai Chopra sets out the case for ambitious deepening of the euro zone

Central banker urges financial institutions to tackle ‘non-performing mortgage debt’

Given the importance of the sector to the Irish economy, the Government needs to be proactive in facing down threats

Over three years most experts expect prices to recover modestly

Rising number of bad loans is one of the main challenges says Central Bank Report

An anti-EU polemic by a former Eurocrat is flawed by its shrillness of tone

Chemical and pharmaceutical exports continue to suffer

Lack of lending is hindering recovery but debate on attitudes to enterprise is needed

Ireland’s bailout has been a success, Portugal’s a “potential” success and Greece’s a failure

Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development publishes report

Study finds younger people worst afflicted by unemployment, mortgage debt and negative equity up to 2010

Investors too positive in good times and too negative in bad

Imbalances in the euro zone need action from the core as well as the periphery

Total tax take for 2013 almost exactly as forecast

However budget forecast involves a lot of variables

The biggest single change to population projections is the return of the old scourge of emigration

The stability pact update (SPU) contains some of the most detailed budgetary information published by the Government

Department of Finance release first formal projections for spending and tax revenues beyond 2015