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George Lee
Slí Eile 14/02/2010
Slí Eile: In the spirit of playing the ball and not the man...there may be more to George Lee than George Lee. Recent media reports …
The State of the US
Nat O'Connor 28/01/2010
Nat O'Connor: I'm sure I'm not the only one who watched President Obama's State of the Union address to Congress. (Various versions of it are on …
Banking inquiry: Guest post by Pat Rabbitte TD
26/01/2010
Over the next week, progressive-economy@TASC will be carrying a series of guest posts by party spokespersons on the banking inquiry. The first post …
The Irish Credit Bubble
Slí Eile 29/12/2009
Slí Eile: Here is a link to an interesting paper by economist Morgan Kelly at UCD.
Reforming the Public Servic: More on Govt Prog
Slí Eile 28/12/2009
Slí Eile: Continuing on the Renewed Programme of Government - the Section on Reform of public services (p33) contains some good (and long overdue …
New Year Resolutions?
Slí Eile 26/12/2009
Slí Eile: Remember the Renewed Programme for Government (early October)? In the meantime we have had Budget 2010. Following earlier blogs on the …
Hunter commentators and the vanity of ignorance
Colm O'Doherty 17/12/2009
Colm O'Doherty: It’s true, every cloud has a silver lining. The ongoing political crisis - stemming from the failure of politicians to increase …
Budget 2010: public sector pay cuts in context
Paul Sweeney 14/12/2009
Paul Sweeney: As reported by the Financial Times, the Greek Prime Minster admitted on Friday December 11th that the Greek public sector has systemic …
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Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …
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Vic Duggan is an independent consultant, economist and public policy specialist catering …
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Robert Sweeney is a policy analyst at TASC and focuses on issues surrounding Irish …