Over the past few days, I have received all sorts of economic forecasts of 2013 penned by economists in large financial outfits who are confidently telling me what is going to happen next year. Most of these guys were the same people who didn’t foresee this crisis,...
Can you imagine if all the casual sociopaths that you knew in school, the sort of lads that you’d generally give a wide berth, could buy guns with the same ease as they buy Mars bars or laptops? Imagine if all the small time psychopathic drug dealers, not the big...
Spent Sunday morning on Marian Finucane’s show, with Maureen Gaffney, Brendan Howlin, Tom McGurk, Stephen O’Byrnes & Philip O’Connor, discussing last week’s news. Part 1 & Part...
I recently had the weird experience of being sandwiched between Gerry Kelly of Sinn Fein and Jim Allister of the Traditional Unionist Voice. Don’t ask! Ahead of my seasonal visit to Belfast this week and amid the furore over the Union Jack, here’s a funny...
By far the most important statistic to come out in Ireland in the past few days is yet more evidence of the relentless rise in the number of people falling into mortgage arrears. Since 2006, this column has been arguing that the inverse of a house price bubble is a...
On a lighter note, John Caddell of Phantom FM was foolish enough to invite an economist in to DJ the other day – we had a great chat and lots of fun. Listen...
