Ciarán Casey
@ciaranmcasey.bsky.social
Economic historian at UL. Author of 'The Irish Department of Finance, 1959-1999' and 'Policy Failures and the Irish Economic Crisis'.
Every night RTÉ is playing some classic movie in the middle of the night and each time I promise myself I'll just go to bed. They do it every Christmas
December 30, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Every night RTÉ is playing some classic movie in the middle of the night and each time I promise myself I'll just go to bed. They do it every Christmas
The footage RTÉ unearths to accompany reporting on the newly-released state documents is almost invariably more interesting than the files themselves.
December 28, 2025 at 9:14 PM
The footage RTÉ unearths to accompany reporting on the newly-released state documents is almost invariably more interesting than the files themselves.
Upping your spending growth target from 5% to 6% and calling it a fundamental change is impressively creative.
The Rainbow govt targeted 2% real spending growth and got close. McCreevy set 4% nominal and got nowhere near it. We've been much more like the latter
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The Rainbow govt targeted 2% real spending growth and got close. McCreevy set 4% nominal and got nowhere near it. We've been much more like the latter
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Harris promises ‘fundamental change’ in budgeting with new 6% spending rule
Coalition publishes new Medium Term Fiscal and Structural Plan, setting out spending for next five years
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December 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Upping your spending growth target from 5% to 6% and calling it a fundamental change is impressively creative.
The Rainbow govt targeted 2% real spending growth and got close. McCreevy set 4% nominal and got nowhere near it. We've been much more like the latter
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
The Rainbow govt targeted 2% real spending growth and got close. McCreevy set 4% nominal and got nowhere near it. We've been much more like the latter
www.irishtimes.com/business/202...
Just appalled at the way the vote on this went. Three major parties without anything approximating a soul
"Across every single region in Ireland and across every age group, there is large majority (72%) support for a ban on fox hunting ... In fact, there doesn't seem to be any real-life support for fox hunting at all, from any sector."
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Saoirse McHugh: There is no urban-rural divide on a fox hunting ban
Polling conducted by Ireland Thinks shows that 72% are against fox hunting, while only 2% of us have ever engaged in it, writes Saoirse McHugh
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December 18, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Just appalled at the way the vote on this went. Three major parties without anything approximating a soul
Future civilisations will marvel at this image. Sages will debate its meaning
December 7, 2025 at 1:38 AM
Future civilisations will marvel at this image. Sages will debate its meaning
It's spectacular that he's survived scandal after scandal, breaking every rule of politics, but for his supporters inflation is the Rubicon.
‘It’s a Democrat hoax. They’re the ones who drove the prices up,’ the US president said, as he pushed back against voter frustration over the cost of living that is eroding his polling numbers on.ft.com/4iD8utY
December 4, 2025 at 2:40 AM
It's spectacular that he's survived scandal after scandal, breaking every rule of politics, but for his supporters inflation is the Rubicon.
Props to the sole boys to do music and Spanish for the Inter Cert in 1942 (both passed)
November 27, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Props to the sole boys to do music and Spanish for the Inter Cert in 1942 (both passed)
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Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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November 15, 2025 at 12:16 AM
Dark forces are preventing us fighting the climate crisis – by taking knowledge hostage | George Monbiot
It shouldn't need reiteration but most of the kids who ended up in industrial schools were just guilty of being poor.
November 12, 2025 at 5:27 PM
It shouldn't need reiteration but most of the kids who ended up in industrial schools were just guilty of being poor.
'The Irish political system is designed so that elected representatives are in constant contact with our communities'
The crux of the problem. It doesn't take constant contact to identify what the problems are. Capturing the marginal votes makes for bad policy
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The crux of the problem. It doesn't take constant contact to identify what the problems are. Capturing the marginal votes makes for bad policy
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Opinion: The Fianna Fáil I joined was the party that got things done. What happened to us?
Presidential election debacle will soon fade but not delivering urgently on matters impacting people’s lives will not
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November 3, 2025 at 2:02 PM
'The Irish political system is designed so that elected representatives are in constant contact with our communities'
The crux of the problem. It doesn't take constant contact to identify what the problems are. Capturing the marginal votes makes for bad policy
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
The crux of the problem. It doesn't take constant contact to identify what the problems are. Capturing the marginal votes makes for bad policy
www.irishtimes.com/opinion/2025...
Anti-vaxers in 1940s Ireland
October 31, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Anti-vaxers in 1940s Ireland
Or, perish the thought, be young?
Opinion: Our young people are the future – the next President of Ireland should empower them share.google/IYEIDTXsKnHc...
Opinion: Our young people are the future – the next President of Ireland should empower them share.google/IYEIDTXsKnHc...
Opinion: Our young people are the future – the next President of Ireland should empower them
The next president should carry on a tradition of celebrating young people’s achievements in Ireland, writes Avril Ryan of Gaisce.
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October 25, 2025 at 11:41 PM
Or, perish the thought, be young?
Opinion: Our young people are the future – the next President of Ireland should empower them share.google/IYEIDTXsKnHc...
Opinion: Our young people are the future – the next President of Ireland should empower them share.google/IYEIDTXsKnHc...
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🗣️ "Are we going to have a conversation, on the level that you are about deportations here, about the crisis of male violence against women in this country?” - News Correspondent, The Journal Eimer McAuley
#TonightVMTV
#TonightVMTV
October 22, 2025 at 10:02 PM
🗣️ "Are we going to have a conversation, on the level that you are about deportations here, about the crisis of male violence against women in this country?” - News Correspondent, The Journal Eimer McAuley
#TonightVMTV
#TonightVMTV
I have a question here
Northern Ireland has confirmed its first sighting and capture of an Asian hornet
First Asian hornet found in Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland has confirmed its first sighting and capture of an Asian hornet.
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October 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I have a question here
I'm going through the government reports for the past century and the introduction of the school medical service is one of the most interesting things. The public health problems were jaw-dropping, even after years of operation. Here's the results from the inspections in Dublin, 1936-7
October 7, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I'm going through the government reports for the past century and the introduction of the school medical service is one of the most interesting things. The public health problems were jaw-dropping, even after years of operation. Here's the results from the inspections in Dublin, 1936-7
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‘Throwing more money at it won't solve the housing crisis. We need more workers.’
Ahead of Budget 2026, Dr Ciarán Casey shares how ‘the proper time to have built infrastructure and housing here was during the last crash’.
Read on, in the Journal.ie: www.thejournal.ie/readme/housi...
#StayCurious
Ahead of Budget 2026, Dr Ciarán Casey shares how ‘the proper time to have built infrastructure and housing here was during the last crash’.
Read on, in the Journal.ie: www.thejournal.ie/readme/housi...
#StayCurious
October 5, 2025 at 10:59 AM
‘Throwing more money at it won't solve the housing crisis. We need more workers.’
Ahead of Budget 2026, Dr Ciarán Casey shares how ‘the proper time to have built infrastructure and housing here was during the last crash’.
Read on, in the Journal.ie: www.thejournal.ie/readme/housi...
#StayCurious
Ahead of Budget 2026, Dr Ciarán Casey shares how ‘the proper time to have built infrastructure and housing here was during the last crash’.
Read on, in the Journal.ie: www.thejournal.ie/readme/housi...
#StayCurious
Leaving this closed for four years is appallingly stupid. We're right beside it and it's magic. It's a cliff, you get rockfalls. Make it as safe as you can but just get on with it
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County Council pours cold water on promising Bray-Greystones coastal path report
Popular 7km coastal route was closed in 2021 following rockfalls and erosion
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October 3, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Leaving this closed for four years is appallingly stupid. We're right beside it and it's magic. It's a cliff, you get rockfalls. Make it as safe as you can but just get on with it
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In today’s Irish Examiner, Dr Ciarán Casey, Assistant Professor UL’s Kemmy Business School, argues that when it comes to inheritance tax, ‘capitalism just rewards those who already have capital’.
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#StayCurious #Budget2026
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#StayCurious #Budget2026
October 2, 2025 at 2:13 PM
In today’s Irish Examiner, Dr Ciarán Casey, Assistant Professor UL’s Kemmy Business School, argues that when it comes to inheritance tax, ‘capitalism just rewards those who already have capital’.
Read on: www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
#StayCurious #Budget2026
Read on: www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
#StayCurious #Budget2026
Who was the first Amazon guy who said 'yeah, I'd better put this in the bin for safe keeping'?
October 2, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Who was the first Amazon guy who said 'yeah, I'd better put this in the bin for safe keeping'?
Very much the approach Jesus took with his own designer clothing and contempt for the left
In local news, Dublin socialite Cruella de Vil says her “Dalmatian handbag was deliberate.”
“I wanted to expose the hypocrisy of the left who don’t love dogs; they just hate the rich,” she says.
“I wanted to expose the hypocrisy of the left who don’t love dogs; they just hate the rich,” she says.
September 27, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Very much the approach Jesus took with his own designer clothing and contempt for the left
My review of Frank Barry's recent book, Industry and Policy in Independent Ireland, in Irish Historical Studies
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Industry and Policy in Independent Ireland, 1922–1972. By Frank Barry. Pp 232. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2023. €85. | Irish Historical Studies | Cambridge Core
Industry and Policy in Independent Ireland, 1922–1972. By Frank Barry. Pp 232. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2023. €85.
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September 19, 2025 at 11:17 AM
My review of Frank Barry's recent book, Industry and Policy in Independent Ireland, in Irish Historical Studies
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Could a small amount be put aside in the Budget to paint the internal walls in university buildings please? I'll go round and do it all personally if necessary
September 16, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Could a small amount be put aside in the Budget to paint the internal walls in university buildings please? I'll go round and do it all personally if necessary
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In the Irish Examiner, Dr Ciarán Casey, Assistant Professor in Economics at UL’s Kemmy Business School, writes how a ‘lack of vision has wasted Ireland's unplanned tax windfall’.
Read on: www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
#StudyatUL #StayCurious
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#StudyatUL #StayCurious
September 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
In the Irish Examiner, Dr Ciarán Casey, Assistant Professor in Economics at UL’s Kemmy Business School, writes how a ‘lack of vision has wasted Ireland's unplanned tax windfall’.
Read on: www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
#StudyatUL #StayCurious
Read on: www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/comm...
#StudyatUL #StayCurious