Budget 2026 - Don't let it boil over
Budget 2026 seems to be a little less hyped than budgets from previous years. The public finances are in surplus. It won’t be an austerity budget. It probably won’t be marked by the frenzy of pre-election type giveaways from recent budgets. Inflation is moderating, incomes are generally rising again...
NERI Opening Statement to the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Services Reform and Digitalisation and Taoiseach on the 'Impact of Tarriffs on the Irish Economy and Related Policy Discussion'
Opening Statement by NERI Co-director, Dr. Tom McDonnell to the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Services Reform and Digitalisation and Taoiseach (16 July 2025) on the 'Impact of Tarriffs on the Irish Economy and Related Policy Discussion'.
NERI Opening Statement to the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Services Reform and Digitalisation and Taoiseach on the 'Impact of Tarriffs on the Irish Economy and Related Policy Discussion'
Opening Statement by NERI Co-director, Dr. Tom McDonnell to the Joint Committee on Finance, Public Expenditure, Public Services Reform and Digitalisation and Taoiseach (16 July 2025) on the 'Impact of Tarriffs on the Irish Economy and Related Policy Discussion'.
We need a New Economic Model – North and South
The global economy is entering into an era of instability and uncertainty and our economic policies (both North and South) are going to have to adjust if our economies and societies are to flourish in this new reality. There are many positive aspects to economic performance on the Island of Ireland...
'The ‘birthplace of aircraft leasing’: Ireland, aircraft leasing and tax arbitrage'
Lecture Format: Mr. Cillian Doyle, PhD student, Trinity College Dublin and Adjunct Professor in Finance, Jim Stewart, Trinity College Dubiln made their presentation. Subsequently, there was a Q&A...
Presentation & video from the NERI seminar -The ‘birthplace of aircraft leasing’: Ireland, aircraft leasing and tax arbitrage
The NERI seminar titled 'The ‘birthplace of aircraft leasing’: Ireland, aircraft leasing and tax arbitrage' was presented by Mr. Cillian Doyle, PhD student, Trinity College Dublin and Adjunct Professor in Finance, Jim Stewart, Trinity College Dublin. It took place on Wednesday 16 April 2025 at 15.30...
13th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference - presentations & videos
The 13th Annual NERI Labour Market Conference in association with the Ulster University Economic Policy Centre provided a forum for the presentation of research papers on labour market issues (North and South of Ireland & international). It was held in Ulster University, York Street, Belfast, BT15...
What new data tells us about market education and healthcare in Ireland
In this blog and its associated Report Series No. 38 and Research InBrief No. 91 'Productivity in the context of healthcare', Chris Smart, NERI economist discusses the Irish economies healthcare and education. Healthcare and education are two large and growing sectors in the Irish economy. While a...
NERI and trade unions should lead demand for an all-Ireland Eco-Social contract
In this NERI blog, Professor Mary Murphy, Department of Sociology, Maynooth University presents on an eco-social contract to underpin an all-Ireland model of development. Find her presentation and video from the 12th Annual NERI Dónal Nevin Lecture that took place on Thursday 5 December 2024 where...
Where is the strategy? An uninspiring and questionable budget
In this blog, NERI Co-director, Dr. Tom McDonnell gives his opinions on Budget 2025. Fiscally questionable Budget 2025 contained a range of spending increases and tax cuts totalling about €10.5 billion of which €2.2 billion was once-off in nature. Ostensibly the public finances are in great shape...