“The point about a free press as presided over by O’Reilly’s INM is that editorial content is a matter for journalists, not proprietors.” So says Eamon Dunphy in his April 12th Irish Times article about…
Monthly Archives For April 2008
Wedded to a Single Option and Forsaking All Others: A Critique of the Current Drive for Same Sex Marriage
… “just because an institution or a practice is rooted in tradition does not make it right.” This statement appears in the position paper of MarriagEquality, the campaign to extend civil marriage to same sex…
The Red Herring Diet Plan
That ol’ red herring – Labour’s links with trade unions – is raising its head again. Kevin Rafter suggests the Party’s 21st Century Commission (an internal review body) should: ‘ . . . look at…
Interview: Dr. Heinz Brandenburg on Political Bias in Irish Media
In the third of our interviews on the media I talked to Dr. Heinz Brandenburg of the Department of Politics and International Relations at the University of Aberdeen, about political bias in the Irish…
Book Review: David Graeber’s Possibilities
I’ve been promising/threatening to provide a review of David Graeber’s new book, Possibilities, for a few weeks, but a number of factors intervened to postpone it. First, a bunch of books arrived on my doorstep…
Carme Chacón Give Me Morning Sickness!
The latest travesty from the Zapatero circus which we laughingly call the government is the news that the pregnant minister for defence, who is a woman (but not a lady), has imposed strict censorship on…
The Mood Song of the Poverty Deniers
Shane Coleman doesn’t believe. CORI recently published its exhaustive Socio-Economic Review 2008 – a 240 page report detailing all aspects of poverty in Ireland. Contained therein was the startling fact that there are over 720,000…
The ‘Good Family’ Criminals
Last week, Cork man Trevor Casey was sentenced to thirteen years in prison for the rape and sexual assault of two teenage girls. During sentencing, the judge referred to a letter from Labour Deputy Kathleen…
An Appalling Vista
ISME’s recent Business Trends Survey makes for grim reading. Employment is down. Sales, investment, orders, and exports are all down. And owners and managers of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are extremely nervous, as well…
Pretty Ugly in Pink
Once again, the socialist prime minister of Spain, the moron Zapatero, has made a laughing stock of our country by including seven middle-aged women in his cabinet, making it the first mostly female cabinet in…
Interview: The Paper Round Pundits
In the second of our interviews with independent commentators on the Irish media, I asked Simon McGarr and Fergal Crehan of the Tuppenceworth blog and fellow blogger Copernicus of Midnight Court about their Paper Round…
Interview: Chekov Feeney on The Press Council and the Defamation Bill, 2006
As part of a series of interviews on the Irish media by independent commentators, I asked Chekov Feeney, who writes on the Irish media for Village magazine, about the newly formed Press Council, the forthcoming…
Book Review: Travail Flexible, Salaries Jetables
Travail Flexible, Salaries Jetables: Fausses questions et vrais enjeux de la lutte contre le chomage – Michel Husson (ed.) Editions La Découverte, Paris, 2006 Over the past decade, France has displayed something of a split…
The Truth About Irish Wages
The new union UNITE (the merged ATGWU and AMICUS unions) has just published a report on Irish wages that is sure to prove controversial. It flatly contradicts the prevailing consensus that Irish wages are somehow…
Sins of the Father
Dublin Opinion
- In God’s Country May 12, 2013Working on the last few pages of a chapter for a book edited by Colin Coulter and Angela Nagle. I’ve just been rigid with anger over the last couple of weeks - more than usual - and I think the process of writing this chapter is the reason why. This little paragraph sums it up […]Conor McCabe
- Fishy Talks Galway, 13 May 2013 May 12, 2013Speaking tomorrow in Galway before Donal O’Kelly’s performance of Bat the Father, Rabbit the Son. The title of the talk is: All the Devils are Here - A Short History of the Irish Entrepreneur. All welcome. […]Conor McCabe
- The Indo: Think I Know The Choice I’d Make.. May 9, 2013[…]Conor McCabe
- Alan Ahearne, Johnny Boy May 6, 2013Alan Ahearne, Central Bank of Ireland & NUIG, writing in 2006 that Ireland’s property bubble was caused by condoms. […]Conor McCabe
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