Another year at the movies and another good one. Too often we hear jeremiads about the decline of cinema and the lack of good films out there (of course, such gripes are usually based on…
Monthly Archives For December 2008
YouTube – Rocky Road To Dublin Peter Lennon Documentary
YouTube – Rocky Road To Dublin Peter Lennon Documentary Peter Lennon's 1967 documentary that was effectively banned for decades from RTE. An angry exposé of the stifling de facto theocracy then in place, it competed…
Is No Place Like Home!!
Si. Is Manuel!! (Is not my hand though) The Christmas is approaching nearby, and is time for everyone who have a home to go to to go there, escept for the homeless, who probly go…
We Need More Than Umbrellas in a Hurricane
There is much in Michael Taft’s ‘Towards a New Economic Narrative‘ that most socialists can agree with. The state must take measures to protect the majority of its population from the ravages of unemployment and…
Cutting Beneath the Radar
Last week’s resignation by Equality Authority head Niall Crowley has focussed belated attention on a round of Budget cuts which, at the time, went largely unnoticed – certainly by the general public. In October, the…
December 15th Evening: The Recession Diaries
You know it’s getting bad when one of the leading bank economists goes on the national airwaves and suggests that the nation pray. On Morning Ireland we had a number of informed commentators giving us…
As the Story was Told: How Irish Media Reports on Climate Change
It is a common enough for blogs, independent magazines, message boards and independent news sources to take issue with how the mainstream media reports on climate change. The argument is that mainstream media is still…
The Climate Change ‘Debate’
“This debate will go on and on. It’s been an interesting discussion and hopefully we’ll come back to it again.” [Miriam O'Callaghan, RTE's Prime Time, 25th November 2008] Miriam O’Callaghan concluding a recent Prime Time…
Steve Early | Is Obama Backing Off a Crucial Pledge to Labor? Bait and Switch on the Employee Free Choice Act"
Steve Early | Is Obama Backing Off a Crucial Pledge to Labor? Bait and Switch on the Employee Free Choice Act” "While running for office, Obama said he strongly backed the Employee Free Choice Act…
Getting Off the Long Run Roller Coaster: A Response to Michael Taft’s 10 Proposals
Michael Taft’s 10 point plan for addressing the profound problems which face the Irish economy is an excellent starting place for discussion of the response of the left. Its major strength is that it recognizes…
red mum | Facebook organised vigil tomorrow: Wednesday, Dec 10
red mum | Facebook organised vigil tomorrow: Wednesday, Dec 10 If you are in Dublin on Wednesday, December 10th at 6.30pm please come along to Dail Eireann where a candlelit vigil (part of the ongoing…
The Real News Network – Bailouts and stimulus are not enough
The Real News Network – Bailouts and stimulus are not enough Leo Panitch says that the banks should be a public utility. As it is they can only function in the long term with the…
Recession Is Shaping Up to Be the Worst Since the 1940s – NYTimes.com
Recession Is Shaping Up to Be the Worst Since the 1940s – NYTimes.com Oh merde: "This recession, which officially began in December 2007, now appears virtually certain to be the longest downturn — and possibly…
The War We Don't Want to See – The New York Review of Books
The War We Don’t Want to See – The New York Review of Books There is a lot about the current wars in Iraq and Afganistan that people do not want to face: "In late…
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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