IIreland Read More Ireland has too much money and is fiscally incontinent – The Irish Times2026-04-11 Is Ireland the worst run country in Europe? How can we waste so much public money so quickly…
EEconomy Read More Even if it could, would the Central Bank want to encourage more lending? – The Irish Times2026-02-19 Sir, – David McWilliams castigates the Central Bank of Ireland, which “is supposed to run monetary policy in…
EEconomy Read More The Irish banking system is not working – and that rarely ends well – The Irish Times2026-02-14 Where does money come from? Who creates it? Can it run out? These are the sorts of questions…
BBusiness Read More In a trade war between the EU and the US, what happens to a city like Galway? – The Irish Times2026-01-24 The one thing that successive Irish governments want to avoid is having to make a choice between Europe…
EEconomy Read More Could France go bust? One of Europe’s biggest economies has pimped itself out to the world – The Irish Times2025-09-06 “Gradually and then suddenly,” is how Ernest Hemingway described bankruptcy in his 1926 novel, The Sun Also Rises.…
NNews Read More A lesson from The Godfather as Wall Street backs crypto assets it once dismissed as a ‘fraud’ – The Irish Times2025-07-26 One of the joys of writing a weekly column is the unusual tributaries explored, often sparked by real-world…