John O’Brennan | Lisbon: A Communications Failure Among the Irish Political Hierarchy “The main source of this enduring pattern of communications failure is that European Union policy-making in Ireland takes place in a hierarchical system…
Monthly Archives For September 2009
The Labour Movement Should Be Under No Illusions About Where Its Interests Lie
Statement from Eamon Gilmore as part of Labour’s campaign to get the Irish people to vote yes in the second Lisbon Treaty referendum. The Lisbon Treaty has won support from the overwhelming majority of Socialist…
After the Green Party
Recently on the Cedar Lounge Revolution smiffy raised an interesting point which was that the future path of the Green Party might be quite similar to that of Democratic Left. I hadn’t thought about it…
Class Matters: The Recession Diaries – September 29th
What kind of recession are we having – or rather, how is it impacting on different sectors of the labour force? Some time ago we heard talk of a middle-class recession – how particular ‘middle…
Lawyers Against Lisbon
The following is a statement from Lawyers Against Lisbon We, the undersigned, have decided to vote “No” on Friday and recommend that our fellow voters do so as well. We each have slightly different reasons…
Constantin Gurdgiev| Anglo Moving Staff and Loans to NAMA
Constantin Gurdgiev | Anglo Moving Staff and Loans to NAMA Constantin Gurdgiev has been talking to a source close to Anglo Irish Bank who has indicated that the bank is making certain structural changes now…
The Plight of the Post-Celtic Tiger Irish Child
One of the most beautiful novels that I have read is The African Child by the late Guinean author, Camara Laye. This autobiographical work retraces his childhood, ending with the author on a flight to…
Hunting for Woolly Mammoths: The Recession Diaries – September 27th
In a previous post on Progressive-Economy.ie, where I disputed the economic benefits of cutting wages, Professor Alan Mathews and Pavement Trauma questioned aspects of my analysis, raising important issues which deserve a considered response. For…
Hugh Miles | LRB Blog: The al-Megrahi Case Continue
Hugh Miles | LRB Blog: The al-Megrahi Case Continue Last week the Scottish lord advocate, Elish Angiolini, unexpectedly announced that she found Megrahi’s decision to publish his defence evidence ‘deplorable’. A 300-page dossier of evidence…
Ronan Lyons | NAMA Assumptions on Prices Not Good Enough
Ronan Lyons | NAMA Assumptions on Prices Not Good Enough Ronan Lyons, economist with the property website Daft, provides a very thorough analysis of the Dept of Finances assumptions about the fall in the price…
Proinsias De Rossa | The Lisbon Treaty Does Not Threaten Irish People in Any Way
Proinsias De Rossa | The Lisbon Treaty Does Not Threaten Irish People in Any Way Proinsias De Rossa asks on his blog why No campaigners are lying: The NO campaigners want us to believe that…
Whither SDLP?
Sunday’s news that SDLP leader, Mark Durkan, would stand aside if he was re-elected as the MP for Foyle came as a surprise to almost everyone. It was assumed by many that his time as…
Steinbrück | G20 should tax financial trades
Steinbrück | G20 should tax financial trades The political answer to this crisis must encompass more than improved regulatory regimes, risk-management strategies, and capital requirements. How governments handle the burden-sharing between Wall Street and Main…
Damning Inspector of Prisons on Mountjoy Prison Report Should Act as a Watershed
Incontrovertible and devastating evidence of chronic conditions in the largest prison in the State has been released in the Report of an Inspection of Mountjoy Prison by the Inspector of Prisons, which had been published…
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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