It is hard to know where to begin a rant on this dreadful deal. I won’t and instead want to point to four external and macro consequences. Four consequences of the deal for all workers,…
Monthly Archives For March 2010
The public service deal: historic betrayal of public service union members
[Statement from the National Public Services Alliance] The “public service deal” is historic betrayal of public service union members by ICTU and its Public Services Negotiating Committee of general secretaries. National Public Services Alliance calls…
Kim Ives of Haiti Liberte | Amid Official Mea Culpas, Port-au-Prince and Washington Tussel over Reconstruction
Kim Ives of Haiti Liberte | Amid Official Mea Culpas, Port-au-Prince and Washington Tussel over Reconstruction Perhaps this is the way it is now in the age of Obama, where the words sound terrific, but…
David L. Wilson, ""Rebuilding Haiti" — the Sweatshop Hoax"
David L. Wilson, “”Rebuilding Haiti” — the Sweatshop Hoax” People in the United States tend to think irrationally about things like job creation. Many of us believe that immigration reduces the number of jobs available…
The Hole She Bangs!
Is Not How It Looks. She is Just My Assistant The appalling latest news in the world of celebrity “entertainment,” which was come out of the blue only this week, is the confession from Latin…
Minister, You do not have the authority to implement a bank bailout of this scale
[Speech by Arthur Morgan TD, Sinn Féin's Finance Spokesperson delivered in the Dail yesterday in response to Minister Lenihan's announcement of the recapitalisation details following the beginning of the process to move the loans to...
Govt bail out of banks makes taxpayer pay cost of crony capitalism
[Labour Party Finance Spokesperson Joan Burton's speech to the Dail after Finance Minister Brian Lenihan announced the details of the recapitalisation of Irish banks after loans had been taken into NAMA] The Irish taxpayer is…
An Saoi: Lies, Damn Lies & Irish Economic Statistics – A Basic Lesson in Corporate Tax Planning
An Saoi: Lies, Damn Lies & Irish Economic Statistics – A Basic Lesson in Corporate Tax Planning An Saoi on why Ireland is the centre of corporate tax planning internationally, and why companies, like Google…
CPSU AND MOLESWORTH STREET PASSPORT OFFICE
[Statement issued by CPSU, 19 March 2010. Apologies for the delay. It is reproduced here by way of balance to the Irish media coverage of protests against current government economic policy.] The Civil Public and…
Why Cuts Don’t Work
The economist Michael Burke has an article in Tribune Magazine which makes the point, for a UK audience being sold the Conservative Party line, that austerity measures are economically counter-productive, and that during a period…
Harney Remaining in Dept. of Health Illustrates the Priorities of the Government
Mary Harney has returned from New Zealand where she evidently gave some thought to coming up with another of her straw-man arguments for facing down criticism of her management of the health service. In relation…
In and Out of Crisis: An Interview with Leo Panitch, Greg Albo and Sam Gindin
Last week’s podcast from Doug Henwood’s Behind the News (embedded below) is definitely worth listening to. The entire show is dedicated to a discussion of the financial crisis with the political economists Greg Albo, Sam…
UNLIKELY RADICALS: IRISH POST-PRIMARY TEACHERS AND THE ASTI, 1909-2009, by John Cunningham
Ostensibly an official history, John Cunningham’s study of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland (ASTI), and its relationship with the education system, also touches on four key elements of Irish society over the past…
MPs cash-for-influence: the inside story | Prospect Magazine
MPs cash-for-influence: the inside story | Prospect Magazine The director of the Dispatches program on Cash for Politicians thought that Labour MPs might just twig the name of the fake company (considering it's left-wing fame),…
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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