Friday, Jan 27th 2012
Below are recordings of the principal speakers at the CPI meeting on the Budget, which took place in the Merrigan Hall, Abbey Street, on Thursday. The speakers were Michael Taft, Cian O’Callaghan, Cathleen O´Neill, Eoin O’Broin, and Eugene McCartan.
They won. We lost. Get over it. Now let’s change it.
There are any number of outrages in the 2010 budget - large ones and a plethora of small ones that will only become evident when the details see the light. These will be dressed up in all sorts of fashionable clothes. My favourite is ‘this [...]
This article is the first of a two part examination of the Trade Related Intellectual Property System (TRIPS) and how it operates to the advantage of the economies in the Northern hemisphere (or “North”), principally the US and the EU, and to the disadvantage of those in the Southern hemisphere (or “South”). Part one below [...]
Sinead Pentony | Why no standard-rating pension tax relief in Budget 2010?
TASC Statement on the failure of the government to bring in standard-rating pension tax relief in Budget 2010.
“TASC has proposed standard-rating pension tax relief – which disproportionately benefits higher earners – and using the resulting savings of around €1 billion per annum to universalise [...]
As a classical musician involved in pro-Palestinian activism, I frequently encounter the assumption that I am an unconditional admirer of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra (WEDO). My reservations on this score tend to produce shocked disapproval: How could I not enthuse about such an idealistic project, particularly since it was co-founded by the late Edward Said, [...]
It’s budget day and all Irish eyes will be focused on Minister for Finance, Brian Lenihan’s Dail speech to find out exactly what is being cut, by how much and to what extent living standards will be reduced. The Irish government is playing a long game, they say, by putting the pain up front and [...]
The much anticipated second installment of the 100 films of the decade. Part 1 can be found here.
Man on the Moon (Milos Forman – USA, 2000)
Milos Forman followed up his Larry Flynt biopic with one of another American curio, comedian Andy Kaufman. You don’t have to think Kaufman was an undisputed comic genius [...]
Desperate Times Call for Desperate Housewives!!
By the time you are read this, most probably the peoples of lovely pissing Ireland will once again be slovenly paupers dressed in rags with begging bowls and long unkempt hair and straggly beards and cheap trainers. This is will be because the Irish government is today introducing its most [...]
Irish Election » Tell Them to Expel the Papal Nuncio!
We want you to tell the Minister and your local TD exactly how you feel about the behaviour of the Vatican toward the investigation.
Fill out the form below either leaving our template letter (which will look like this in the email) or drafting your own comments. [...]
The Real News | Honduran Elections Exposed
Honduran coup regime’s claims of more than 60% participation in free and fair election revealed as fraud
