Banner
Editorials

    • Good Budget in tougher times

      The boom is over. The pace of economic growth is slipping. In his Budget yesterday, the Tánaiste and Minister for Finance, Brian Cowen, cut next year's forecast for the growth rate in real Gross National Product to 2.8 per cent. On this basis, the economy in 2008 will experience its slowest rate of economic expansion since 1993. p

    • Defeat for Chávez

      The key fact about Sunday's surprise defeat of President Hugo Chávez's proposal to change Venezeula's constitution was the massive abstention of his own supporters. Compared to the seven million votes he received in the presidential election last December, only 4.3 million voted in favour of these changes. Overall turnout was down from 70 to 56 per cent. His opponents rallied some 30 per cent of the electorate to give them a very narrow victory of 50.7 to 49.3 per cent. p
    Opinion

    • Budget of promise invests and incentivises

      Economic growth may be slower so we must manage resources better but Ireland is still ahead of other EU nations, writes Bertie Ahern p

    • Stamp duty reform is gamble, public sector reform is a must

      Brian Cowen is betting that the economy will improve significantly before the electorate return to the polls, writes Mark Hennessy p

    • Sad fate of Irish pin-up girl

      This column is about Katy French, the young model who at the time of writing is in hospital, seriously ill. She celebrated her 24th birthday last week with a commercially sponsored party. In her short career to date, which seems to consist of promotional and advertising work as well as lingerie modelling, Katy French has sought and won a great deal of public attention, an extraordinary amount of it hostile, writes Ann Marie Hourihane p
    An Irishman's DiaryBack to Top

    • An Irishman's Diary

      Continuing our annual series, we track down the people who featured in our Budget "case studies" of 10 years ago and find out what happened to them since, writes Frank McNally p
    Martyn Turner's CartoonBack to Top

    • Click on image to view larger version

    Weekly Index
    MPrice Watch
    Innovation
    THealth
    WCommercial Property
    Motors
    An Teanga Bheo
    TProperty
    Science Today
    FThe Ticket
    SMagazine
    News Features
    Weekend
    Obituaries
    Archive
    Click a date to view the paper on that day
    PreviousNext
    MTWTFSS
    Advertisement
    Crosswords and Sudoku
    PuzzlesSudoku and interactive Irish Times crosswords
    What does this mean?
    What is Premium ContentIndicates Premium Content, which is available to subscribers.
    PDF downloads
    PDF downloads Download today's front page or TV listings page as they appear in The Irish Times
    Article Index
    Mon | Tue | Wed | Thu | Fri | Sat