Tag: Economics
We Are Living Way Beyond Our Means
Amid rising energy costs, it is worth considering how there can be such a severe cost of living crisis in such a wealthy country as Ireland. This is because much of the cost of living crisis is predicated on a...
The Department of Finance’s Doomed Savings Scheme
The State should stop punishing ordinary investment and calling the workaround reform Barra Roantree and others have already made the economic case against Simon Harris’s proposed savings scheme. Their objections are relatively straightforward and well-founded: the scheme is being presented as a...
The legacy of Berkeley’s Querist in Irish Protectionist thought (Part 2)
This second article on Berkeley's protectionism is to highlight his influence on the country's contribution to economic writing. This is a syndicated piece with permission from the writer Aistí Ó Chraobh, following the previous article on the subject. ‘Mr. de...
The Querist: George Berkeley’s National Economic System
The following first appeared on the Substack ‘Creeve Rua’ and is syndicated with the permission of the author. While the trite cultural spat over George Berkeley’s colonial legacy interests me little, I’m glad the Bishop has been thrust into the limelight again,...
A Fiscal Policy for the Irish Right? The Abolition of the USC & Reformation of Government Spending
The lot of right-wing populism in Ireland is primarily focused on the changing social fabric of the nation. As the government repeatedly and consistently alienates voters with its high tax, high migration, high rent society, political traffic will drift towards...
‘Ye Wife Swapping Sodomites!’ E Michael Jones’ and ‘Degenerate Moderns’
"Hither flock all the crowd whom love has wrecked Of intellectuals without intellect And sexless folk whose sexes intersect...." - Roy Campbell, 'The Georgiads' Introduction “G’way, ye wife swapping sodomites.” - Úna Bean Mhic Mhathúna The mere mention of Dr....
David McWilliams is Wrong About Immigration. A Critical Response.
Introduction Last Sunday, David McWilliams published a piece in the Irish Times, wheeling out the familiar argument that immigrants are an unambiguous economic blessing to the host country. The piece is nothing original, those familiar with the politics of immigration...
Quinn Country: The Wrath Of A Slighted Chieftain?
The documentary introduces itself with an image of a forgotten wasteland, the border region. A land of old laws and old customs. A land with no regard for metropolitan laws or liberal opinion. Abandoned by both governments, North and South....
Éire Nua: Gaelic Corporatism’s Lost Future?
The following first appeared on Substack and is syndicated with the permission of the author. With the impending reality of the next Irish government being formed by Sinn Féin, I felt that it would be instructive to analyse some of...
Cost of Living Protests: The Left Plays the Populist Game
Two years of the Irish Left hiding behind NPHET’s skirt came to an end this weekend as Dublin saw mass mobilisation for a march against the Cost of Living Crisis. Headlined by Taoiseach in waiting Mary Lou MacDonald and the...