September 10th, 2014. Minister Leo Varadkar, Department of Health, Hawkins House, Hawkins Street, Dublin 2. Dear Minister, I understand from Jonathan Irwin, whom you will be meeting on September…
Eddie HobbsMarch 12, 2017
The day Newbridge Credit Union died in 2013 after a savage run on its savings, the sense of loss of a social keystone cut deep and as widely…
Eddie HobbsFebruary 7, 2017
Consumer Rights to Data Privacy, not a moment too soon. Close of play Friday. The weekend feeling had arrived. About to turn off her PC one of the staff at…
Eddie HobbsJanuary 26, 2017
Dear Euro Lotto Winner, There’s no template and very few knocking about, who’ve ever dealt with the outcomes of sudden mega-windfalls, money that has not been learned and earned, over…
Eddie HobbsJanuary 26, 2017
2016 began with very heavy falls in equities meanwhile fixed interest Government bonds rallied even further driving more yields into negative territory, still investors piled in, guaranteed to lose money…
scarletDecember 21, 2016
The early dust is settling on yesterday’s shock win for Trump, as evident by the predicted calming of markets. This short blog adds to ours of yesterday morning, as cool-headed…
scarletNovember 10, 2016
Trump leading a divided Republican Party has taken the US Presidency and with it a Republican Party that now controls both houses, Congress and Senate. It is time for calm…
scarletNovember 9, 2016
It’s a zero sum game chasing up a rising property market with demands for higher pay, where the most powerful and well organised squeeze the least powerful and disorganised in…
scarletNovember 8, 2016
The only unknown is how much the largesse will be, but the least well-off in the most insecure jobs have always funded the higher pay and job security of those…
scarletOctober 25, 2016