Showing posts with label Irish economic policy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Irish economic policy. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 2, 2018

1/10/18: Irish Times on Enterprise Ireland Venture Capital Programs

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Recent article in the Irish Times looks at some of the industry views on entrepreneurship in Ireland and Enterprise Ireland funding progr...
Thursday, December 26, 2013

26/12/2013: Strategy for Growth 2014-2020 - A Fruitcake of Policy?

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This is an unedited version of my Sunday Times column from December 22, 2013. It is a well-known fact that virtually all New Year’s re...
Saturday, June 15, 2013

15/6/2013: Irish Health Pricing Policy: Stupid, Short-Termist & Costly

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Per Irish Times article , the Government is planning to impose a massive price hike on hospital beds, leading to health insurance prices h...
Monday, October 10, 2011

10/10/11: The Gathering

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According to the latest CSO data, 6,037,100 foreign visitors came to Ireland in 2010 and in January-July 2011, there were 3,696,000 oversea...
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Sunday, March 6, 2011

06/03/2011: The Programme for Government - Part 1

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Here are some of my comments (notice - not criticisms, by comments - these are thoughts in progress) on the FG-Labor Programme for Governmen...
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Thursday, May 20, 2010

Economics 20/05/2010: No comment needed

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This is in just now from Ryanair: Starts IRELAND LOSES RYANAIR HANGAR AND UP TO 200 JOBS TO GERMANY AND FRANKFURT HAHN AIRPORT (Thursday, 20...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

Economics 13/03/2010: Why Farmleigh report falls flat

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I must confess, last week produced a bumper crop of new (and old) 'proposals' for fixing Ireland. Tasc had one (the Letter of 28) - ...
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Monday, October 12, 2009

Economics 12/10/2009: Bertie's quote of the day...

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Help us, but as we deal with the fallout of the Green Party disastrous attempt to save face on economic policy, here is a quote of the day f...
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Wednesday, August 5, 2009

Economics 05/08/2009: Irish Exchequer - back into the furnace for a fresh meltdown

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On to the Exchequer Returns for July 2009 , then. As I predicted well back in February-March 2009, we are on track to reach the milestone of...
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Friday, July 3, 2009

Economics 03/07/2009: Exchequer returns

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So we have June Exchequer returns. Pretty nasty stuff, though some say it’s all ok. Here is why I disagree: Much of the effect in flatter...