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August 29th, 2007
Promoters take over as file-sharing bug bites
This weekend, many of the 40,000 people who will travel to Stradbally for the Electric Picnic probably still remember the thrill of getting your hands on a new vinyl album. Even for part-time, uncommitted musos, the new album with its cover, inside sleeve, lyrics and design was a prized procession to be treasured, shared with mates and above all, taped ferociously. A little later, the CD took over, but the buzz and the hype was almost the same.
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August 27th, 2007
Labour’s time for hard graft
As the Irish economy winds down, perhaps people will see merit in an often discarded party.
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August 22nd, 2007
A little less accountancy and a little more carpentry is what we all need
This week thousands of Irish teenagers will be accepting university places. For most, this will open an exciting phase in their lives when they will make life-long friends, learn a bit, have a laugh and begin the process of growing up. Government policy aims to send 80pc of our school leavers to some form of university or other. So this is an experience that more and more Irish school leavers will enjoy in the years ahead.
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August 19th, 2007
Crunch time for Ireland Inc
Our reliance on the property market is being cruelly exposed as the global financial crisis gathers pace.
It’s like discovering your husband downloads porn from the internet. You think you know someone and then, wham, reality hits.
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August 15th, 2007
Money talks and, right now, the North is doing most of the talking
What did they think the Belfast Agreement was about? What did you think the St Andrew’s Agreement was trying to engineer? Where politics leads, economics follows, and vice versa.
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August 12th, 2007
All the cheap credit went to our heads; now we must pay the bill
The chaos of the last few days in the financial markets is the upshot of making profits from lending money to people who cannot afford to pay it back.
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August 8th, 2007
Madness behind the Irish plantation of England
The Irish plantation of the English countryside is in full swing. It is hard to know what Elizabeth the first – the instigator of the plantation of Ireland – would make of it.
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August 5th, 2007
Working mothers caught in their own childcare Catch-22
Sarah feels awful dropping off her daughter every morning. The child’s only eight months old, but what can Sarah do? She’s in a trap. She works, but most of her cash goes on childcare.
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August 1st, 2007
Family dynasties: the foundations on which the economy will thrive
In the past few days there has been a lot of commentary about collapse of share prices on the ISEQ index. Pages have been devoted to what it means for pensions, whether it is justified and what are the likely implications, if any, on the real world.
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