Ireland remains vulnerable to a handful of giant foreign-owned firms, economist Jim Power has warned.

Irish politics has been in a state of flux since the unusual general election of February 2016, writes Jim Power.

We need to spend more money on public services and we need to reform in a serious way the manner in which they are being delivered, writes Jim Power.

Housing and public services must be fixed first, writes Jim Power.

Having promised in his leadership election campaign to help those people who get up early in the morning and who work and pay taxes, Leo Varadkar’s bluff will be called in October when his finance minister presents the first budget of their joint stewardship of the economy, writes Jim Power.

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