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Will Ireland concede on Irish corporation tax? Interviewed on BBC World Service “World Business Report”

By ⋅ December 9, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

BBC World Service “World Business Report” asked me “What will Ireland say if EU leaders insists it increases its corporation tax rate in line with other European countries?” BBC World Service “World Business Report” (mp3)

Lehman Brothers: has the sector learned anything?

By ⋅ September 14, 2009 ⋅ One comment

September 15th marks one year since Lehman Brothers – an investment bank that I worked for in the 1990s – was allowed to crash and burn. What, if anything, has the financial sector learned since then? Well, if President Obama’s opinions are anything to go by it’s not much.  Today he told an audience in downtown [...]

Is capitalism dead?

By ⋅ September 6, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

This was the subject of yesterday’s Leviathan at Electric Picnic. www.leviathan.ie As usual, David McWilliam’s was the charming, entertaining MC and he put some tough questions to the panel: brave-for-showing-his-face-instead-of-Fianna-Fail  Green Party TD Eamon Ryan; socialist, journalist and activist Eamon (get out the pikestaffs for the revolution) McCann;  journalist and author Dan O’Brien of The Economist Intelligence [...]

Students’ advice for Irish government

By ⋅ February 26, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

Lectured some university students today in News Reporting and asked them to talk directly to the government – using Post-It notes. After class, I was going on BBC2 NI’s show Hearts and Minds as a guest along with Martin Mansergh. I told them I would give them to him after the show. It didn’t happen [...]

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