I am Full Professor of Economics at the University of Limerick, Ireland,  Head of the Department of Economics, Co-Director of the UL's Immersive Software Engineering programme, and Research Associate at the Rhodes Centre for International Finance at Brown University. I am a member of the Irish Government's AI Advisory Council.

I am Economic Advisor to An Taoiseach, Simon Harris.

My research is archived at Orcid and citations, etc., at Google Scholar. My academic CV is here as html, and here as PDF. That's me looking a bit grumpy over there to the right. You can sometimes, although rarely, find me on Bluesky.

I was Chief Economics Writer for The Currency.news for five years, and before that a columnist with the Sunday Business Post for four years, and before that a weekly columnist with the Irish Independent for six years. Fifteen years of column writing, about 48 columns a year, has given me a specific expertise on the Irish economy. I have also written for the Guardian and the New York Times. I have twice won Economic Commentator of the Year for my columns.