The ASTI dispute throws into sharp relief a number of elements of how we disorganise our State.

The budget last week was a bland and pallid affair, designed to try to create an illusion of prosperity, a Potemkin Village of a performance.

Cassells’ report has cleared up the higher education funding landscape but many questions remain, says Brian Lucey.

In the EU negotiations Enda Kenny faces a number of problems.

Would you trust a banker?

In ancient Rome there was a political office called the Censor.

The rich are, and have always been, different. I suppose we should be grateful that they are now just stealing our money, not actually eating us. So, there has been some progress.

Insanity, we are told, is doing the same thing time and again and expecting a different solution. By that definition — and this will come as no surprise to anyone who has watched the slow-motion train wreck that is the eurozone — the ECB is insane.

People often wonder what use are economists. In terms of climate change, this is a particularly appropriate question.

Ten years on and we still don’t know what a tracker mortgage is, despite all the financial water under the bridge, and the collapse of the banking system.

A new centre for entrepreneurship — the Hincks Centre — has been established at Cork Institute of Technology aiming to inform national policy and education in the entrepreneurial sector.

A GENERAL increase in global IT spend over the coming months could significantly benefit the jobs market here, a conference has heard.

A COLLEGE lecturer has secured a High Court apology and damages in settlement of the first libel action arising out of defamatory emails.

BUDDING entrepreneurs are being inspired by the successful business people of the past through a new website which celebrates innovation in the south-east region.

THE Government will need to find €150 billion over the next five years to steer the country out ofrecession — the equivalent of doubling the current tax take.

ENTERPRISE Minister Micheál Martin has promised that Dungarvan will be made a priority area for job creation.