A FALLING oil price is good for Western economies, at least in the short to medium-term, but it is not necessarily good for stock markets.

The caption under a photograph on page seven of yesterday’s edition (Dec 2) described me as having “defended Labour’s role in cuts”. Any reading of the accompanying article by Juno McEnroe would demonstrate that I did exactly the opposite.

Delegates at the Labour Party's annual conference have voted to replace the property tax with a site value tax.

It’s accountability time for the troika, according to members of the European Parliament who plan toinvestigate just how they carried out their jobs in the four programme countries, including Ireland, over the past three years.

THE European Parliament failed to halt the decline in voter interest as the elections registered its lowest ever turnout over the past 20 years at 43%.