When it comes to corporate tax rates, Ireland may soon be forced to pick between 100,000 job losses or guarding our international reputation. Which will the government choose? The situation has been described in a new submission to the Department of Finance by the Consultative Committee of Accountancy Bodies Ireland (or CCAB-I). https://twitter.com/agoodall4/status/1437722098357649416 In a […]
This, make no mistake, is very good news: The number of people in hospital with Covid 19 has fallen below 300 for the first time in a very long time: https://twitter.com/MountainAsh2020/status/1437558992969076740 Good news, though, should also prompt some soul-searching. After all, it was not supposed to be like this: In a letter sent by the […]
The real question here is not, in truth, “could he win”, so much as “why on earth would he want to run for the job in the first place?”. Nonetheless, he told the Irish Independent at the weekend, he is not ruling it out: “I’ll see what state I’m in in 2025. At the moment, […]
How fortuitous for Micheál Martin that on Sunday, the Mail on Sunday should publish a highly ill-advised and mean-spirited column by somebody called Niamh Walsh, which took aim at the clothing choices made by the female members of the Fianna Fáil parliamentary party at their think-in last week. Make no mistake, the article in question […]
Perhaps nothing symbolised Ireland’s protracted Covid lockdowns more than the ubiquitous horse box. For long the symbol of provincial backwardness in Ireland, Covid saw the emergence of the improvised horse box cum coffee outlet. Suddenly, no urban space was complete without its own chic equine-themed coffee outlet dispensing lattes and the like to Ireland’s most discerning […]
It is perception that matters most in the arena of contemporary consensus politics
Inquest in January
The abortion protesters usually behave impeccably, often in fact prayerfully
A test case may be warranted here at least first before the domestic courts.
If you’re in your late thirties, like me, then you are just about old enough to remember the evils of inflation, and the problems it wrought on the Irish economy in the late 1980s and early 1990s. As the value of money decreased, prices went up. As prices went up, the Government tried to make […]
Zappone’s pushiness is largely a measure of the ease with which she has always got her way with our pushover politicians.
Amach! is listed as a charity and employed one person in 2019.