Each of these podcasts delves into a particular issue and gives the listener a more nuanced understanding. Some of them summarise detailed reports, e.g. from the ESRI or OECD, which are difficult to read, and quite time-consuming. They are all intended to add to your knowledge with a minimum of effort.
Real-world applications of economic concepts and books on the subject:
The Circular Economy:
Price Elasticity of Demand and the hospitality sector:
PED and the hospitality sector in Ireland
PED and the hospitality sector in Ireland
Market Failure:
Market failure
Market failure
Price Discrimination:
Understanding price discrimination
Understanding price discrimination
Nuclear Power and economic sustainability:
Nuclear Power and Economic Sustainability
Nuclear Power and Economic Sustainability
President Trump's Tariff Policy:
Understanding President Trump's Tariff Policy
Understanding President Trump's Tariff Policy
The Bond Market:
Bond Markets
Bond Markets
Capitalism:
Movie review of Capitalism: A Love Story (Relevant to the Strand One investigation of the 2008 financial crash).
Movie review of Capitalism: A Love Story (Relevant to the Strand One investigation of the 2008 financial crash).
National Income Statistics:
National Income Statistics
National Income Statistics
The Irish Housing Crisis:
An overview of the Irish housing crisis in 2025
An overview of the Irish housing crisis in 2025
The Chicago School of Economics:
The Chicago School of Economics
The Chicago School of Economics
The Road to Serfdom:
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek
The Road to Serfdom by Friedrich Hayek
Fiscal Frugality:
Fiscal Fragility: Ireland's Corporate Tax Concentration Risk.
Fiscal Fragility: Ireland's Corporate Tax Concentration Risk.
Relevant publications AI-ed into podcasts:
- The Ireland Strategic Investment Fund (ISIF), 2014 to 2024.
- CSO Report: Measuring Ireland's Progress 2023 (published April 2025) (The CSO produce excellent reports that are easy to read yet highly detailed. The SEC regularly use their infographics in the exam. Click here to view this detailed report).
- ESRI Forecast Winter 2024 (You can access the full report here).
- ESRI Forecast Spring 2025 (The full report is available here).
- ESRI Quarterly Economic Commentary Autumn 2025 (Click here for the full report).
- OECD Economic Survey Ireland 2025 (full report available here).
- Central Bank Report Q1 2025 (Central Bank reports are well written and contain plenty of clear diagrams, some of which appear on the exam paper. Click here if you wish to view this one).
- Overview of the Irish economy from April 2024 to April 2025 (Leaving Cert. specific)
- Papal Encyclical on Economics written by the late Pope Francis
- Irish Fiscal Advisory Council Report December 2024 (Click here for the full report).
- The Draghi Report on EU Competitiveness 2024 (the full report is available here).
- Irish Fiscal Advisory Council Report June 2025 (Click here to read the full report).
- Report on the basic income pilot scheme for artists 2025. (If you want to access the full report, click this link).
- The Summer Economic Statement 2025 (click here to access the report in full).
- National Development Plan Review 2025
- IMF Report on Public Expenditure in Ireland 2025 (click here for a short summary of the report).
- The EU-USA Trade Deal (read a summary of the key points here).
- Report on Stakeholder Engagement and Emerging Themes on Infrastructure, published on July 29th, 2025 by the Department of Public Expenditure, Infrastructure, Public Service Reform and Digitalisation (full report available here).
- AI in the Irish Economy, 2025 (full report available here).
- Budget 2026 (a detailed summary is available here).
- ECB Report on Balance of Payments, August 2025 (full report available here).
- The Sovereign Individual. This book, written by William Rees-Mogg and James Dale Davidson and first published in 1997 focuses on libertarianism, decentralisation, and the decline of the nation-state due to the rise of the internet and cyberspace. A major prediction highlighted in the text is the supremacy of digital currency or cybermoney over government-issued fiat money.
- Future Forty. Ireland's Long-Term Economic and Fiscal Outlook. A bullet-point summary of this document is available here.
- Delivering Homes, Building Communities, 2025 to 2030. The Irish government's plan to build 300,000 homes by 2030. A detailed summary of this report is available here.
- The new tenancy laws in Ireland. These changes take effect from March 1st, 2026 and are likely to have a significant, though I believe negative impact on the rental sector in Ireland.
- The Critical Infrastructure Delivery Plan sets out the Irish Government’s diagnosis of why major infrastructure projects take so long to deliver, and proposes a system-wide reform package aimed at speeding up the delivery of critical infrastructure—namely water, electricity, and transport. It was published in Ddecember 2025. The full report can be accessed here.
- Irish Economic Review of the Year 2025.
- A video review of the Irish economy in 2025 is available here.