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Colm McCarthy: Venezuela suffers double misfortune

It is highly unusual for the IMF to stand aside as it has done, or been forced to do, in Venezuela, and long-term observers of financial crisis management are suspicious.

OPINION 1 July 2026

Colm McCarthy: Venezuela suffers double misfortune

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Colm McCarthy: why we have too much local democracy

Colm McCarthy: why we have too much local democracy

VIEWPOINTS 24 June 2026

Colm McCarthy: struggling Starmer's sea of troubles

Colm McCarthy: struggling Starmer's sea of troubles

VIEWPOINTS 17 June 2026

Colm McCarthy: policy silos are leading to housing sprawl

Colm McCarthy: policy silos are leading to housing sprawl

Colm McCarthy: policy silos are leading to housing sprawl

VIEWPOINTS 10 June 2026

Colm McCarthy: Ireland’s aviation success story

Colm McCarthy: Ireland’s aviation success story

Colm McCarthy: Ireland’s aviation success story

VIEWPOINTS 3 June 2026

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Colm McCarthy: inflation myths?

Colm McCarthy: inflation myths?

Constant complaints in Dáil debates about the crushing increase in food prices also miss the point.

VIEWPOINTS 15 April 2026

Colm McCarthy: shuffling civil servants around is not a policy

Colm McCarthy: shuffling civil servants around is not a policy

The Public Spending Code has subsequently been abandoned for all practical purposes and there is no system of oversight for large capital projects.

VIEWPOINTS 15 April 2026

Colm McCarthy: strengthening Ireland's energy security

Colm McCarthy: strengthening Ireland's energy security

Moneypoint is almost fully depreciated – it was commissioned over 40 years ago and has further limited life if operated sparingly.

VIEWPOINTS 15 April 2026

Colm McCarthy: Amid uncertainty, prudent progress is needed

Colm McCarthy: Amid uncertainty, prudent progress is needed

The last few years have seen a persistent pattern of failure to deliver on budget-day limits on spending, themselves generous, alongside a steady dripfeed of tax giveaways.

VIEWPOINTS 15 April 2026

Colm McCarthy: hauliers unlikely allies for farm organisations

Colm McCarthy: hauliers unlikely allies for farm organisations

The farm tractors do very little mileage, while the truckers do a lot, far more than the average of 15,000 kilometres per annum of private motorists.

VIEWPOINTS 15 April 2026

Colm McCarthy: good reasons for green diesel system

Colm McCarthy: good reasons for green diesel system

The Government appeared complicit in the popular notion that the lower rate of excise on green diesel is a conscious concession to the agricultural community.

VIEWPOINTS 15 April 2026

Colm McCarthy: Import prices, like the weather, are just things that happen

Colm McCarthy: Import prices, like the weather, are just things that happen

There is a logic to having higher, not lower, taxes on the big trucks which have been blocking the country’s roads.

VIEWPOINTS 15 April 2026

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After more than two decades working with GPS technology, Tipperary contractor and dealer Robert O’Shea has witnessed precision farming become an increasingly important part of everyday farm management

How FJ Dynamics is supporting smarter decisions in the field

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