Paschal Donohoe, the Minister for Finance, set up the Commission on Taxation and Welfare to ‘review how best the taxation and welfare system can support economic activity and income redistribution, while promoting increased employment and prosperity in a resilient, inclusive and sustainable way’. Picture: RollingNews
Anybody in this country under the age of 30 will not have voted in an election where it was a given that Fianna Fáil would win the most votes. Indeed, it would be hard for them to fathom that this was once one of the most successful political parties in post-war Europe. Irvine Welsh, the author of Trainspotting and a former resident of Dublin, wrote a piece in the Financial Times before the 2007...