Financial Justice Ireland

24/08/2026

We are excited to announce the return of our Culture Night walking tour of Dublin's International Financial Services Centre!

Join Financial Justice Ireland for a walking tour of Dublin's Docklands to explore how the financial district drives ecological breakdown. We will guide a lively walking tour that blends protest and performance at the heart of the city’s financial district.

Together, we will discover how the IFSC is playing an outsized role in setting our planet ablaze with wildfires, guzzling fossil fuels with dirty investments, and diverting clean energy into limitless data centre expansion.

Our speakers will invite us to consider how these interlocking crises can be resisted by illuminating pathways toward a just transition that places human flourishing and well-being ahead of profit, growth-at-all-costs economic thinking, and ecological devastation.

Featuring a wide range of brilliant speakers and timely perspectives, this is a tour not to simply attend but to join. Expect to walk, question, and sing!

Our tour begins at 5pm, Friday September 18th at the James Connolly Memorial Statue, opposite Liberty Hall. We will finish at 7pm.

The full programme and contributor details will be updated shortly at financialjustice.ie

Tickets are freely available through the link below:

https://www.financialjustice.ie/get-involved/events/there-is-no-planet-b-an-ifsc-walking-tour-in-a-time-of-climate-breakdown/

13/08/2026

05/08/2026

A worthy intervention from our colleague Alex Cobham at the UN tax convention in New York.

Alex speaks for all civil society organisations when he points out that cross-border tax abuse continues to plague public economies.

Only international cooperation can push back on the damage illicit financial flows continue to cause.

As Alex points out, illicit financial flows have a clear, comprehensive definition at the UN.

It's therefore worrying to hear UN delegates considering narrowing terms that would open the door to increased tax abuse.

This would undo previously agreed principles of cooperation that remain crucial to tax and financial justice.

The Fifth Session will take place at the United Nations Headquarters in New York from 3 to 13 August 2026.

04/08/2026

The UN tax negotiations are underway in New York.

This piece by Jayati Ghosh stresses a policy change we need to see agreed upon at the UN level: taxing economic activity where it occurs.

Such a move would limit tax abuse by powerful multinationals and add huge sums to public revenue.

The UN now has a real opportunity to shift the balance of global inequality.

As Ghosh writes, ''it is worth remembering that democracy itself emerged from the struggle for fair taxation, reflected in the principle of “no taxation without representation.” For decades, multinational corporations have been shifting profits out of the countries where they are generated into accounting “nowhere” zones. This has led to widespread economic insecurity, creating fertile ground for billionaire-backed authoritarianism.

The UN Tax Convention offers a different path, asserting that the shops, offices, factories, and workers that generate global profits matter. By restoring the link between where profits are made and where they are taxed, the Convention advances a modern form of taxation with representation and carries forward one of democracy’s oldest principles.''

Jayati Ghosh urges global policymakers to back a groundbreaking UN tax treaty that would end profit shifting.

28/07/2026

We've a new blog up!

It covers the intervention from 60 leading tax and tech experts who asked Ireland to step down from leading negotiations on these topics during its EU Presidency due to a conflict of interest.

We also spoke to one of the signatories, Dr. Nessa Ní Chasaide of Maynooth University, formerly the Coordinator of Financial Justice Ireland (then the Debt and Development Coalition).

She told us that, “The letter reflects an important, united stand by scholars of tax and tech around the world. We are collectively expressing concern about Ireland’s compromised position within the EU on these issues. While Ireland is certainly not the only problematic actor within the EU on global tax reform, Ireland has a track record of being a ‘hold out’ EU state, such as in relation to the global minimum tax for example. Ireland is a huge beneficiary of corporate tax avoidance by large US firms. This must be made clear in relation to its chairing role during the EU presidency.”

Leading experts publish a letter highlighting substantial conflicts of interest in areas of tax and tech regulation. Ireland took up the mantle of EU Presidency on July 1st, a duty it will hold for 6 …

20/07/2026

It was really great to collaborate with the Centre for Global Education on commissioning and jointly publishing research undertaken by Harm-Jan Fricke.

The research investigates challenges and opportunities for discussing the structural reality of neoliberalism in development education and global citizenship education.

You can find out more below:

Attention to Economic Neo-liberalism in Development Education and International Development on the Island of Ireland Exploring the Elephant in the Room: Attention to Economic Neo-liberalism in …

16/07/2026

📢 Call for Tender: Consultancy Services – Events & Public Engagement Support

Comhlámh is seeking a consultant to support the coordination, delivery and promotion of a programme of events, workshops and public engagement activities taking place between September 2026 and April 2027.

We are looking for someone with experience in event coordination and public engagement who can help create welcoming, inclusive and participatory spaces that support dialogue, learning and action on global justice issues.

The consultancy will involve supporting a range of activities, including public events, engagement initiatives, learning opportunities and events taking place in locations across Ireland.

📅 Contract period: September 2026 – April 2027
⏰ Deadline for applications: 5pm, 5 August 2026

Full details, including the Terms of Reference and submission requirements, are available here: https://comhlamh.org/blog/call-for-tender-request-for-consultancy-services-events-and-public-engagement-support/

Please share with anyone who may be interested.

13/07/2026

A group of 60 leading academics has urged Ireland to recuse itself from files on tax during its EU Presidency due to its “questionable track record regarding the protection of EU digital rights and the EU’s fiscal base.”

The letter said, “Ireland’s reliance upon giant non-EU firms creates insurmountable conflicts of interest, as evidenced by the country’s track record in the area of data regulation and taxation.”

A group of leading university professors have urged the Irish EU presidency to sit out of negotiations on EU tax and digital laws, pointing to "insurmountable conflicts of interest".

08/07/2026

PRESS RELEASE

At first glance, soaring temperatures may seem far removed from the sober tax discussions that took place in Dublin on the 6th and 7th July this week, where senior officials from EU finance ministries, the European Commission and the Council Secretariat began talks on the European Commission's latest package of tax reforms. In reality, the connection is direct.

Addressing climate disruption requires public investment on a scale not seen for generations. How governments raise revenue determines whether they can invest in sustainable development, support communities through a just green transition and meet international commitments.

Financial Justice Ireland is concerned that the European Commission's Taxation Omnibus package will not strengthen our collective capacity to meet these challenges.

Announced last week, the Omnibus aims to simplify parts of the EU's corporate tax framework and make it easier for businesses to comply with tax rules across borders. Clear, coherent tax systems are important.

Businesses benefit from certainty, and tax administration should avoid unnecessary complexity or duplication. But ‘simplification’ should not come at the expense of fairness.

Commenting on the commencement of Ireland's EU Presidency and the Tax Omnibus, unveiled by the EU Commission last week, Vicky Donnelly of Financial Justice Ireland said:

''Ultimately, a fairer global tax system is not a concession to the Global South; it is in everyone's interest. In an interconnected world, tax justice strengthens public finances, reduces inequality and creates the resources needed to invest in climate-resilient societies.''

''Climate justice and tax justice are not separate struggles. They are different expressions of the same question about how we build economies that serve people and protect the planet, rather than concentrating wealth and power in the hands of the few.''

Full statement available below:

As Ireland assumes the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, it has an opportunity to shape not just the agenda for the next six months, but the values that underpin it. As Ireland assumed …