Examines how the Celtic Tiger, an economy that was hailed as one of the most successful in history, fell into a macroeconomic abyss necessitating an unheard of

Paul Sweeney surveys the processes and economic circumstances that have worked to produce the modern Irish economic miracle. He also casts a critical eye on the

All across Ireland, thousands of people are living in apartments and houses with serious fire safety and structural defects. Some of these have made the news, m

Ireland's Celtic Tiger economy has been held up as a model of successful development in a globalized world, offering lessons for other late developing countries

The death of the Celtic tiger is not an extinction event to trouble naturalists. There was, in fact nothing natural about this tiger, if it ever really existed.