Friday, Jan 27th 2012
In September 2009 I interviewed John Throne about his own history, as well as the Irish left and working class. We talked for about two hours and after I had stopped recording, I asked John would it be ok to ask him about his expulsion from the Committee for a Workers’ International. He said yes, [...]
Sometimes a team needs a leader, to take a game into their hands and turn it around. For France, Henry was that man. A disorganised and unmotivated French side were harried and fraught by an under-valued Irish team, but extra time put the win up for grabs – and it was the French who reached [...]
One could despair. All the major political parties are supporting another round of fiscal contraction, though they may differ on the balance of tax increases and public spending cuts. In this respect, Fianna Fail has won that particular battle, we are just fighting within the parameters they have set. There is seemingly no challenge to [...]
Yesterday I talked to Michael Burke, an economist with 25 years experience working in the Financial Services sector in the UK, including a 5 years period as a senior economist in Citibank. Recently he entered the economic debate here by saying that the Government’s current strategy of cutting government spending could lead to an even [...]
Today, ICTU and TASC published the Hierarchy of Earnings, Attributes and Privilege report (PDF) or H.E. A.P report, authored by Professor Terrence McDonough of The Dept of Economics, NUI Galway, (see recent ILR podcast interview) and Jason Loughrey. You can find the full press release below. The full report deserves to be studied in detail [...]
The Musculing Mr. Nadal: Check Out His Sexpack!
Everyone in the Estímulo household this week am being debating the news that lithe, musculing Majorcan Raphael Nadal is to be back leading the Spanish team in the final of the David Cup tennis tournament final against somewhere call the Czech Republic next month in December.
On the one [...]
Below is a recording of Harry Browne at the launch of the Irish Socialist Network’s latest pamphlet, A force for progress? Five myths about the European Union. The event took place in Connolly Books, Essex St, Dublin 2.
Thinking Allowed | White Collar Crime 2 - The Regulators
Laurie Taylor continues his excellent Thinking Allowed series on white collar crime. As a former professor of criminology Taylor brings a professional interest to a fascinating topic and in this edition looks at corporate crime and the regulators who are supposed to police it. In the [...]
Sinn Féin launched their pre-budget submission yesterday with a press conference in Buswell’s hotel, and a document which it claimed would provide the road to economic recovery. Within the current debate dominated by the rethoric of slash and burn, it was good to find out that Sinn Féin are arguing against the strategy of cuts [...]
Invitation to launch of new ISN pamphlet
“A force for progress? Five myths about the European Union”
Connolly Books, 5.30pm, Tuesday November 17th
Speaker: Harry Browne
