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Fiscal Compact Referendum : why I am voting “maybe”….
A number of people over the last while asked me how I intend to vote in the forthcoming referendum on the fiscal compact. At the moment I am firmly in the I don’t know camp. I have previously blogged...
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The Fiscal Compact, LTRO and sovereign debt
This post is a longer version of an oped published in the Irish Examiner Saturday 3 March 2012 So, another European referendum looms, with all that heat and lack of light that we can expect based on...
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Eolas: Knowledge is power on the Fiscal Compact
The below is a version of an invited opinion piece done for Eolas magazine, an information magazine for senior public officials. The fiscal compact treaty, an intergovernmental but not EU treaty, is in...
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Euro crisis will require some hard choices to be faced.
This is a version of an opinion piece originally published in the Irish Examiner Sat 14 April 2012. See http://www.irishexaminer.com/business/euro-crisis-still-very-much-alive-and-pressing-190499.html....
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The Fiscal Compact and Ireland
I was asked to address the Oireachtas Subcommittee on European Affairs on the issue of the Fiscal Compact, and did so this morning (18 May 2012). Below is the briefing note which I forwarded to the...
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Holding my Nose and voting Yes
This is an expanded and linked verison of a column published in the Irish Examiner Saturday 12 may 2012....
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Catherine Murphy, Article 27 and the Seanad.
One of the things that must most irk senators and dail members is the way that debates get guillotined. Catherine Murphy TD had proposed to table some amendments in the debate on the Seanad abolition...
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What Ireland’s crash tells us about bankers views on Scottish Independence
The next week is going to be fascinating. I have no idea how Scotland will vote, for or against independence. I have no idea how I would vote were I there. Economically, there is probably a somewhat...
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What might radical politics look like in an Irish context?
So Renua has been born, a new Irish political party. New ideas and new blood are always good ideas in democracy, and even if there is not a whole pile of it evident so far the principle should be...
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