Economic Management Council

You’re unlikely to find anyone in Iveagh House, the Dublin headquarters of the Department of Foreign Affairs, who thinks Brexit is a good idea. Yet Br(...)

Unless there is a radical resetting of relations between the two sides of the Government, there seems to be little future for the Government. A compl(...)

The Troika returned to Dublin this week to check we can still run the economy, and there is sure to have been mixed feelings among the delegation as r(...)

Some fuss has been made of Enda Kenny’s status as the first Fine Gael leader to be re-elected as Taoiseach. This detracts slightly from the legacy of (...)

New legislation for affordable housing and laws to ensure judges are selected on merit are among the promises set out by the Government’s two newly ap(...)

The old joke goes that the best way of spreading a story is to tell a politician a secret. Like journalists, many of the political class are terrible (...)

In all probability, we are facing the political equivalent of one of those Depression-era dance marathons. The choreography will be more Lanigan’s Bal(...)

Hungarian venture The Turley family has bought out US firm Fagen’s 50 per cent share of their joint venture, Ethanol Europe Renewables, says the Sun(...)

Tomorrow the President will convene the Council of State to consider the International Protection Bill. The Dáil considered only 16 of the Bill’s 81 s(...)

The economy will have reached safe haven within two years, the Minister for Finance has said. Michael Noonan said the biggest risk Ireland faces is e(...)