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Patrick Honohan

@phonohan.bsky.social

Former Governor, Central Bank of Ireland. @PIIE.com; @tcdeconomics.bsky.social; @CEPR.org

Patrick Honohan @phonohan.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

I like the Great Europeans for the new euro banknotes. I also like the birds, but they are inextricably linked with the Kafkaesque office buildings. So for me it has to be be Callas, Curie, Leonardo and …

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Patrick Honohan @phonohan.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Lough Conn from above Maasbrook Schoolhouse, Co. Mayo, Easter Sunday 2026.

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Patrick Honohan @phonohan.bsky.social · 09/08/2025

Mackerel sky, Dublin tonight.

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Patrick Honohan @phonohan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Thanks so much to Philip Lane, Agustin Benetrix @tcdeconomics.bsky.social, Alan Barrett @esri.ie ie and all the distinguished participants for my birthday conference @ria.ie and this absorbing special issue of my favourite journal.

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Patrick Honohan @phonohan.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

And the patterns are fairly persistent:

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Patrick Honohan @phonohan.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

And one sector provides an interesting exception to the lackluster 2019-2024 sectoral real earnings growth in Ireland. It's the Information and Communication sector (shown below as IT), already with relatively high weekly earnings and still racing ahead as it has for many years.

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Patrick Honohan @phonohan.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

If it's economics that drives voting in general elections, the question for Ireland today is whether it's microeconomics or macro. (See the NYT piece by @fotoole). These graphs quantify the contrast between rocketing aggregate employment growth and below peak average real earnings.

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Patrick Honohan @phonohan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

What a change globalization brought for Ireland. This annual data going back eighty years shows how, when fiscal policy was brought under control and globalization got under way in the early 1990s, the dynamics of the Irish economy changed utterly.

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Patrick Honohan @phonohan.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Take a look at the jump in Irish employment. 100,000 in the past twelve months alone. Will the approaching de-globalization clouds be the peak of this roller-coaster?

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