The Office Is the Dose
Henry Adams in 1907 called power a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim's sympathies. Twenty years of neuroscience have confirmed it with …
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The Wealth Tax Ireland Already Has
Ireland implements a 15% minimum effective tax on multinationals via OECD Pillar Two. The same logic applied to individuals worth over 100 million euros is …
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What the Finance Minister Already Knew
Paschal Donohoe reviewed Piketty's Capital and Ideology in The Irish Times in March 2020 and concluded Piketty triumphs. The Irish political class has read the …
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Ireland's defence is cyber, and the politics needs to catch up
Three quarters of Northern Hemisphere subsea cables pass through or near Irish waters. The Defence Forces have just signed a €60 million Thales sonar contract …
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Three years to house everyone: a working financing model
A working financial model for ending Irish modern homelessness in approximately three years: capital cost, financing terms, the transition profile, and the comparison with continuing …
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The shape of access: what 84,178 lobbying returns tell us about Irish public policy
84,178 returns across 11 years on the Irish lobbying register. The access patterns are visible in the data. Business lobbies dwarf labour and civil society. …
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Mapping the Irish right: what is forming, and what has been there all along
What 'the right' actually means in Irish life in 2026, mapped carefully: distinct strands, the recent drift, the electoral picture, structural drivers, and the empirical …
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The arithmetic of not building
Around €900 million flowed from the Irish State to private emergency-accommodation providers and HAP landlords in 2024, producing no permanent public asset. The same money …
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What the ESRI says, and what the State does
The ESRI is the State-funded independent research institute Ireland established in 1960 to provide evidence for public policy. The State engages its work selectively — …
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The landlords came back
Ireland is the country that won the Land War and removed landlordism across eighty years. In 2013 the State legislated a new landlord class into …
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There is no excuse: Ireland already built its way out of a housing crisis once
Ireland built over 60,000 social homes in the 1970s and sold most of them off in the 1980s. The current crisis is the consequence of …
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What politics in Ireland actually is
A working definition of Irish politics in 2026: the party whip, the parish pump, the cross-party consensus, the lobbying architecture, and the gap between the …
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