Colm
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Colm McCarthy is a contributor to the Irish Farmers Journal.
Colm McCarthy on 19 Sep 2018
Climate change targets
The planet as a whole shares a single atmosphere, to the alteration of which Ireland contributes one-fifth of one per cent of worldwide emissions.
Colm McCarthy on 12 Sep 2018
Brexit – time for super-fudge?
A no-deal outcome can be avoided with a kind of super-fudge, writes Colm McCarthy.
Colm McCarthy on 05 Sep 2018
No rational case for having so many post offices
One has to wonder how many people are really discommoded if their next trip to the post office must coincide with their next shopping journey to the nearest town, or their next trip to the bank?
Colm McCarthy on 29 Aug 2018
How Labour paid the price for promises it couldn’t keep
The 2016 electoral realignment in Ireland and the inability to form other than a minority government is largely the handiwork of unelected ECB officials in Frankfurt.
Colm McCarthy on 22 Aug 2018
The Charter of Nimbyism and the housing shortage
The best way to restrict windfalls for those who possess residential land around Dublin is to ensure that there is plenty of it, which means zoning everything out to the far horizon.
Colm McCarthy on 15 Aug 2018
Colm McCarthy: future options for vehicle taxes
There is no proposal to tax rural dwellers, long-distance commuters or anyone else on the basis of distance travelled and there will be no such new tax in October’s budget.
Colm McCarthy on 08 Aug 2018
More coherent land use policy needed
The opposition to a coherent land-use policy in the southeast of England is hysterical. It is echoed word-for-word around Dublin, without even the consolation of a true-blue Tory party to blame
Colm McCarthy on 01 Aug 2018
Next October's budget must be used wisely
The Irish economic recovery is already getting long in the tooth – it is tempting fate to presume that there can be no interruption.
Colm McCarthy on 25 Jul 2018
Brexit – avoidable air travel disruption looms
Brexit is not an entirely rational process and unintended consequences are cropping up all over the place.
Colm McCarthy on 18 Jul 2018
Colm McCarthy: asking the wrong housing questions
Local and national politicians have chosen to perpetuate the crisis through perpetual objections to every proposal for residential construction that comes along.
Colm McCarthy on 11 Jul 2018
Dáil gossip should be cut to allow real stories be covered
A functioning democracy needs a healthy press, both print and broadcast. Colm McCarthy discusses.
Colm McCarthy on 27 Jun 2018
May has a drink at last chance saloon
European leaders will conclude another summit meeting in Brussels on Friday. The next summit after that is in October, the last chance saloon for an orderly deal on British withdrawal from the EU.