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The aim of this website is to provide commentary, information, and intelligent discourse about the Irish economy.

iea_logo_whitebg-243x300The opinions expressed on the site are personal to the individual contributors; the website per se does not institutionally endorse any of the opinions expressed on the site, nor do the employers of the contributors.  The site is run on behalf of the Irish Economic Association, whose current President is Prof. Anne Nolan of the ESRI.

You may contact the site administrator at s dot coffey at ucc dot ie.

A few operational notes:

  1. First-time commentators are held in the ‘moderation’ queue – while this is cleared fairly rapidly, please be patient if there is a delay.
  2. On occasion, a comment from even regular contributors gets sent to the SPAM queue. We also clear this quite rapidly but there is no need to re-post your comment if it is does not automatically appear: please be patient. Where comments are allowed on a post, please refrain from comments that digress too far from the goal of providing commentary, information, and intelligent discourse about the Irish economy. Also please refrain from ad hominem comments – these will be deleted.
  3. All comments are sent via email to the original contributor of the post and they have the option of deleting it at that point.
  4. Commenters should be aware the contributors of the blog post can see the email address that you have given. They can also see your IP address. Sometimes this just is a string of numbers. Sometimes it clearly includes the name of your employer’s network. Hopefully, this isn’t a problem for most people, and I can assure you that all contributors here would treat such information with the utmost discretion. Still, you should be aware of the limits of anonymity that prevail here.

2 replies on “About”

Why is there a need for anonymity at all on a website like this. As with many other sites, I suspect it would benefit if everyone had to say who they were, as well as saying what they think

Brendan, sorry, I just saw this comment today. The IEA Council decided to allow anonymity to continue as it does have some benefits–some people are members of the civil or public services, or they are otherwise barred from commenting as ‘themselves’. The identities of all the commenters through emails and IP addresses are known to the forum moderators like myself, so in extremis we can seek them out.