I know I keep blogging about the folly of Northern Ireland wanting to cut its corporation tax rate of 12.5%,  but I admit that I
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The Economic Advisory Group in Northern Ireland (a quango) has strongly endorsed the demand for  a cut in the corporation tax in Northern Ireland to 12.5% to
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The Northern Ireland Select Committee  of the House of Commons  has suggested today that the corporate tax rate in Northern Ireland should be cut to 12.5% to match
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The House of Commons Northern Ireland has just announced that: There is a convincing case for reducing the corporation tax rate in Northern Ireland, not
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It’s perverse that the SNP wants to cut Scotland’s corporation tax rate to match Ireland’s. As the Belfast Telegraph reports today: Demands for higher corporation tax in the Republic won’t impact the
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As the Telegraph reports: Moody’s has downgraded Ireland’s debt rating, citing “weaker economic growth prospects” and “uncertainty” created by EU solvency tests. Ireland’s sovereign debt
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Ireland’s banks are bust. They were foreseeably bust a long time ago. The failure is spectacular by any standards. The accounts of Irish banks had
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There’s widespread coverage of the fact that Ireland’s had a fifth go at estimating how but its banks are, and has upped the estimate to
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The Guardian reports: Ireland’s embattled banks need to be bolstered by an extra €24bn (£21bn) — some €13bn of which needs to be used to
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