The Irish experience of fiscal retrenchment under crisis conditions poses new questions of governance, the evolving …. The government is required to formulate and implement extremely tough choices, particularly since Ireland entered an EU …

problems manifest in European peripheral countries, especially Ireland, Spain, and Greece, have roots in domestic policy …

The international economic crisis hit Ireland hard from 2007 on. Ireland’s membership of the Euro had a significant … which Ireland experienced the crisis. The prior configuration of domestic policy choices, the structure of decision … crisis. Indeed, this paper argues that Ireland has had to manage not one economic crisis but three – financial, fiscal, and …

political factors which weakened the capacity of the Irish political system to respond and which exposed Ireland to a worse …