Ireland will not be able to grow its way out of its current debt burden without some sort of restructuring of the bank debt, according to leading economist David Blanchflower.

Bank of England Governor Mervyn King has been branded a “tyrant” by a former member of the Bank’s key interest rate-setting committee.

GORDON Brown’s hopes of heading the International Monetary Fund (IMF) were dealt a serious blow yesterday as David Cameron indicated he was ready to block his predecessor’s appointment to the role.

The Governor of the Bank of England was urged to quit today after it emerged he privately criticised David Cameron and George Osborne in the run-up to the British general election.

CALL me cynical, negative, whatever you want, but I don’t consider that this has been anything like a vintage Premier League season.

SO, sadly, I was right to highlight Saturday’s fixture as the most likely falling fence in our otherwise gentle pre-January canter.

CUTTING public expenditure or public sector wages or employment could cause havoc for the Irish economy, a top economist warned yesterday.

Finance Minister Brian Lenihan’s €4bn spending cuts will drive the economy over a cliff into a bottomless depression, a leading economist warned today.

Bank of England policymakers came under pressure to consider a half-point cut in interest rates earlier this month, it was revealed today.

The Examiner’s football correspondent Liam Mackey is taking a well-earned break floating along the Nile on a dhow to discuss tactics and the riddle of the diamond with the Sphinx. So for the next few weeks we’ve called Allan Prosser from the subs’ bench to mediate over your opinions and give the controversy pot a stir.