Colm McCarthy

4 weeks ago | farmersjournal.ie | Colm McCarthy

Just six members, France, Germany, Italy and the three smaller Benelux countries, comprised the European Union, or the Common Market as it was then called, when its structure was negotiated during the 1950s. A European system of direct support for farmers, replacing the national policies of the six constituents, resulted from the ‘grand bargain’ between France and Germany when the Common Market was established with the 1958 Treaty of Rome.

1 month ago | farmersjournal.ie | Colm McCarthy

In a report last October, the Irish Fiscal Advisory Council used the term ‘the planning and objection system’ to describe Ireland’s arrangements for land-use planning. Proposals from would-be developers must first secure permission from one of the 31 local authorities and then survive a daunting obstacle-course of potential objections at An Coimisiún Pleanála, a judicial review in the Irish courts and the further risk of appeal to the European Court in Strasbourg.

1 month ago | igeteo.mx | David Criado Ramón |Otto Bathurst |Tom Harper |Colm McCarthy

Ahora, casi tres años retirados de la serie saliendo del aire después de una carrera de nueve años, el Peaky Blinders El universo se está expandiendo una vez más. El fashionable MMO Mundo de los tanques El juego ha anunciado una asociación con Banijay Rights para lanzar el nuevo Battle Move Especial: Peaky Blindersun evento en el juego por tiempo limitado basado en la serie.

1 month ago | businesspost.ie | Colm McCarthy

Opinion People calling for a similar department here could do well to remember we already have it – the Department of Public Expenditure Elon Musk, head of the US Department of Government Efficiency (Doge): The next Trump brainwave has been well flagged by his commerce secretary Howard Lutnick: it is the recovery of the corporation tax revenue currently paid in Dublin, instead of Washington, by the US multinationals based here Elon Musk, reputedly the world’s richest man, has been appointed...

1 month ago | farmersjournal.ie | Colm McCarthy

During the bubble years before the crash of 2008, Ireland’s State debt was comfortably below the European norm and there were occasional budget surpluses. The State could borrow freely when needed, and at affordable interest rates. It all went pear-shaped with the banking bust and in just two short years the country was unable to finance itself, requiring its first-ever IMF rescue programme and the party was over. Transient tax revenues evaporated, especially stamp duty from the property bubble.