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Articles from September 2009

John O’Brennan | Lisbon: A Communications Failure Among the Irish Political Hierarchy

An article by Donagh of Dublin Opinion • September 30th 2009

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 dominated by senior government ministers and a top echelon of civil servants.”
John O’Brennan, a lecturer in European politics and society [...]

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 parties across Europe and from the European Trade Union Confederation (which groups together virtually all trade unions across Europe). This [...]

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 in quite those terms before, not least because I suspect the future for the Green Party may not even be [...]

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 class’ occupations were being badly affected. Architects were one such profession and clearly there’s not much use for this group [...]

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 for our position but are agreed on what now follows.
Contrary to a common argument from our opponents, the Treaty is about much [...]

Constantin Gurdgiev| Anglo Moving Staff and Loans to NAMA

An article by Donagh of Dublin Opinion • September 29th 2009

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 in anticipation of the yet to be voted upon NAMA.
For example:

100 staff members are being transferred [...]

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 France, having won an academic scholarship.
Set during the colonial period, one of the things that stand out in the novel [...]

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 this goes beyond ‘what wage levels are best’; it is about defining what the critical issues behind our competitiveness and [...]

Hugh Miles | LRB Blog: The al-Megrahi Case Continue

An article by Donagh of Dublin Opinion • September 25th 2009

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 protesting his innocence is available here.
Meanwhile FBI man Richard Marquise responds to Gareth Pierce’s precise demolition of the case against al-Megrahi [...]

Ronan Lyons | NAMA Assumptions on Prices Not Good Enough

An article by Donagh of Dublin Opinion • September 25th 2009

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 of property to 47% from the peak, and the suggestion that property yields are high relative to European and historical averages.
According [...]

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Sins of the Father

Sins of the Father:

Tracing the Decisions

That Shaped the Irish Economy,

by Conor McCabe

from The History Press

Now Available as an e-Book.

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