Category: Politics
Moral overload?
Slí Eile 30/03/2010
Slí Eile: No sooner was the ink dry on the Public Service Agreement (2010-2014) than the next news story broke on - NAMA. It just never dies down. …
Public sector labour costs
02/03/2010
Over the past year and a half, a number of commentators have claimed that wages in the Irish public sector are high by international comparison. How …
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 …
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Nat O'Connor
Dr Nat O’Connor is Assistant Professor of Social Policy at UCD, a fellow of the UCD …
Passerose Mantoy
Passerose Mantoy is the CEO of Chrysalis Community Drug Project, a community-based drug …
Paul Sweeney
Paul Sweeney is former Chief Economist of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions. He was a …