Inequality in Ireland today
Robert Sweeney 11/02/2019
A previous blog looked at the broad contours of inequality in Ireland today. What we found was that (i) inequality has grown here (ii) Ireland now ranks in the middle among European countries as other countries have become much more unequal and (iii) Ireland has unusually high levels of market inequality. Here we probe the matter further by …
The Entrepreneurial Irish State
Paul Sweeney 31/01/2019
Perhaps the most sucessful example of the entrepreneurial state in Ireland is IDA Ireland. It is a state agency which has been incredibley successful …
Nationalism and nation
Colm O'Doherty 28/01/2019
I am a long-term admirer of Fintan O’ Toole’s writing but in his recent analysis of the factors which triggered Brexit (Not just the economy, …
Precarious work leads to precarious lives
Sinead Pembroke 24/01/2019
Precarious work precarious lives: how policy can create more security – a report recently published by FEPS-TASC – reveals that precarious work …
Inequality in Ireland today
Robert Sweeney 16/01/2019
With continuing housing crises, health crises, inadequate childcare, climate change inaction, there’s no shortage of public policy emergencies …
A divided state
Paula Clancy 02/01/2019
Dr. Paula Clancy is founding director of the independent, progressive Think Tank TASC (Think Tank for Action on Social Change) which she helped set …
Privatisation Pendulum Swings Back.
Paul Sweeney 20/12/2018
In my last blog in November, we saw that privatisation is being reversed in the UK, the original home of the Thatcher ideology of “rolling back the …
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Michelle Maher
Dr Michelle Maher completed her PhD on the Irish pension system in 2016 at Maynooth …
Alicja Bobek
Alicja Bobek has a PhD in Sociology from Trinity College Dublin, an MA in Sociology and …
Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He is a …