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Tumbleweed time in the Irish Stock Exchange
So the Irish Stock Exchange held a conference with EI on why companies should consider floating . As Simon Carswell says, its now time for the ISE to think long and hard about what it is it wants to...
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What have the Romans, sorry Researchers, ever done for us?
Another day another paean to applied science… well, a thinly disguised call for more money to go to engineering. Coz, they make stuff y’know, not like basic researchers or heaven help us AHSS (arts,...
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Do you want the Civil Service to run Universities?
This is an significantly extended version of an OpEd published by myself and Charles Larkin (whose name appears missing) in the Irish Times. The Universities (Amendment) Bill 2012 is a shutting of the...
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Public Sector, Private Sector, Public Money, Private Money
I spoke yesterday at the Irish Proshares Association ( a branch of IBEC), along with Jim Power and Constantin Gurdgiev. A gloom of economists indeed.Part of the discussion after our presentation got me...
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Can investors not afford firesales or just dont want to engage in them?
Property prices in Ireland have dropped precipitously and yet we still see few (apart from those that Alssop Space) enough investment properties (buy to lets) coming on the market deeply discounted....
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Plan B needed, times three, for the dangers ahead
This is an extended and linked version of an Irish Examiner oped published 24 November 2012 Irish governments over the years , and especially in the last few, have not exactly shown themselves to be...
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The Garda should take pay cuts to maintain numbers – discuss
So it seems that the police are running out of money, with reports (here, here) that the force will not have the funds this year to pay for its complement. The commissioner has stated before that he...
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Universities are not Innovation Bootcamps
This is an extended version of an opinion piece published (here, paywalled) in the Sunday Business Post Sunday 8 September 2013, authored by Charles Larkin and myself. Irish universities remits and...
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Irish Banks : Arrears, Deposits, Bail-in and Interest Rate Editon
This is an edited and extended version of a column in The Irish Examiner 26 October 2013 There is a great book on marketing titled “the long tail” , which stresses that instead of trying to hit...
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Disruptive Innovation and Irish Universities post-Leporte
History and business are rarely taught or even studied together. That’s a pity. Economic history, as subject, has disappeared down the memory hole. What is more worrying perhaps is that the methods of...
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