This is the oped, as filed, in the 13 July 2008 Irish Mail on Sunday. The things I didn’t have space to get into in this column include thoughts on a slight gender split that will be a caveat, but it doesn’t affect the main point: the difference between conditions in Ireland and the rest [...]
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Why Irish Emigration Won’t Be Like the 1980s
July 14th, 2008 · 6 Comments
Tags: Business · Daily Mail · Ireland · column · economics · irish politics · politics
Could an Irish bank go bust?
July 9th, 2008 · 7 Comments
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My piece in the Wednesday Irish Daily Mail:
So as it turns out, gloomy economists aren’t the only ones who think the Irish government might have to bail out a bank. The Moody’s rating agency has built in the assumption of a rescue [in the unlikely event one is needed, which it [...]
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My Recession Two Cents
June 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Slightly bumpier version of my piece in today’s Irish Daily Mail:
Richard Delevan
Exporting, instead of selling houses to each other, is the only real way to grow our way out of the hole we’re sinking into. Selling software, green innovations and services to the world is the way we get back to a position of strength.
Sphere: [...]
Tags: Daily Mail · economics
Getting to “Yes”
June 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment
This column originally appeared in the 8 June 2008 Irish Mail on Sunday (not available online). Bonus material after the jump:
Trust in you? (In the print edition, accompanied by a still from the Jungle Book - certainly a first for an OpEd of mine, not counting extemp ones delivered aloud including, ‘time for bed’)
Richard Delevan
You’re [...]
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How Brian Cowen Can Avoid Being Gordon Brown
May 4th, 2008 · No Comments
first published in the 4 May 2008 Irish Mail on Sunday…
Richard Delevan
Some of us were left cheering the British election results. One result in particular. An eccentric, rumpled right-of-centre journalist openly fond of a tipple can win a big majority, high office and the power to smite the very urban annoyances that were once just [...]
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Gordon Brown: Cautionary Tale for Biffo?
April 8th, 2008 · No Comments
This article first appeared in the 6 April Irish Mail on Sunday:
Richard Delevan
Once upon a time, everybody liked the old boss. He had emotional intelligence, a touch of glamour and a talent for outfoxing adversaries so successful that the very idea of outright opposition seemed pointless, frivolous, and churlish. People were prosperous and proud of [...]
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