The CSO has just published the first quarter National Accounts. If you want to avoid the spin go straight to Michael Burke’s cogent analysis on Progressive-Economy. Here I just want to look at one long-term…
Monthly Archives For June 2010
Green Party Saving The Nation – Only the Dog Breeding Bill remains
At this time of hardship, unemployment, emigration and even negative equity, the Greys have secured a famous victory and guaranteed their place in history. Last night, in a nail-biting near-finale they and their coalition partner…
Ireland's Economy Is Still Being Managed by People Too Incompetent to See a Massive Housing Bubble | Beat the Press
Ireland’s Economy Is Still Being Managed by People Too Incompetent to See a Massive Housing Bubble | Beat the Press It might have been worth pointing this out in an NYT piece telling readers how…
John J. Mearsheimer — Sinking Ship
John J. Mearsheimer — Sinking Ship Israel’s botched raid against the Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla on May 31 is the latest sign that Israel is on a disastrous course that it seems incapable of reversing. The…
FT.com | Spanish banks rage at end of ECB offer
FT.com | Spanish banks rage at end of ECB offer Spanish banks have been lobbying the European Central Bank to act to ease the systemic fallout from the expiry of a €442bn ($543bn) funding programme…
Cuts won't reduce the deficit – investment will | Left Foot Forward
Cuts won’t reduce the deficit – investment will | Left Foot Forward Michael Burke on the contradiction of Thatchers legacy – how public spending actually rose during her time despite savage cuts and how this…
Why I use ‘middle class’ as an insult | Cath Elliot – CiF
Why I use ‘middle class’ as an insult | Cath Elliot For the vast majority of people, well those who haven’t read Marx anyway, class is increasingly defined by how much material wealth a person…
Better Scrutiny Of The Rich Set Would Be Good For Us All
The number of Ireland’s rich, measured as those having investable assets of $1 million or more, rose by over 10 % last year. To top it off ‘Ireland is perceived to be ahead of the…
Spinning Our Way To Prosperity. The Recession Diaries – June 28th
Adrian Weckler is doing what journalists should be doing – investigating stories rather than report press releases. We have, of late, been subjected to an avalanche of job-creation announcements. Take one example: Weedle, a Dublin-based…
Where’s the Sacrifice?
Performance Poetry goes Live, Wild and Nationwide with Dave Lordan and Elaine Feeney Writers and performers Dave Lordan and Elaine Feeney are to tour their much anticipated new books with their Where’s the Sacrifice? tour…
IPRT Forum to address exploding prisoner numbers, as numbers reach 4,317
The Irish Penal Reform Trust, Ireland’s leading voice for penal reform, will today host an Open Public Forum, entitled Exploding Prisoner Numbers – Causes, Effects and Solutions. The event, which is chaired by the Inspector…
This Shambolic Republic
Book Review: Ireland’s Economic Crash, by Kieran Allen, The Liffey Press Kieran Allen’s excellent analysis of Ireland’s recession, the first that this writer has encountered from an Irish Marxist, is predicated on a single simple…
The 2010 TASC Annual Lecture, delivered by Professor Kathleen Lynch
On the 17th of June last Professor Kathleen Lynch, Professor of Equality Studies at the School of Social Justice at UCD, gave the 2010 TASC Annual Lecture at the Royal Irish Academy. It was called…
Irish Housing, 1981 – 2006: Take A Bow To The New Revolution
Irish housing statistics are notoriously vague. There is no accounting system for new housing units – rather, the CSO has to rely on figures from the ESB with regard to new connections, and from that…
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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