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December 2010

The route to bailout

As Ireland accepts international support, Eamon Quinn analyses how we got here. Bailout as a word has its uses to…

January 2010

The Programme for Government and the Budget made moderate changes to the health care system. Given the chance, opposition parties…

January 2010

The new British Ambassador, Julian King, speaks to Meadhbh Monahan about his desire to see Ireland and the UK working…

January 2010

A climate change law and a more central role for the committee is “critical.” Formed in 2007, the Joint Committee…

January 2010

The huge facade of Hawkin’s House in Dublin, the headquarters of the Department of Health and Children, reflects the wide…

January 2010

Brendan Howlin represents Wexford and is Deputy Leader of the Labour Party. He was first elected to the Dáil in…

January 2010

Macdara Doyle, of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions (ICTU), analyses Budget 2010 and argues that it is a “charter…

January 2010

Fergal O’Brien, senior economist in IBEC’s policy division, argues that by “frontloading” the fiscal adjustment into the 2010 Budget, the…

January 2010

Eamon Quinn analyses government reasoning for the harsh Budget. Most years the back-page documentation from the Department of Finance gives…

September 2009

As the decisive day approaches, Peter Cheney reviews Lisbon’s current status and weighs up its chances of success or failure…