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Monthly Archives For September 2010
Armageddon Sunday morning
Armageddon Sunday morning & to the angel of the church in Pergamos write; These things saith he which hath the sharp sword with two edges King James Version, Revelation, 2.12 I dream of the collapse…
Banshee: Journal of Irish Women United – Looking Left, DCTV
DCTV programme on the seminal Irish feminist journal, Banshee, which was produced by Irish Women United in the 1970s. Contributions from Anne Speed, who was a member of Irish Women United, and from Clare Butler…
2010 FEPS/TASC Autumn Conference
Details of the 2010 FEPS/TASC Autumn Conference have just been announced for those interested in attending. Full program and list of speakers is available here. The booking form, which you have to complete and return…
“The strike is the most worthy and sacred expression of politics”
This is an interview published in El Público today with Luis García Montero and Joaquín Sabinaby that Hugh Green translated this morning and posted on his own blog. I’m cross-posting the full post with the…
Pretending to be Taoiseach
Pretending to be Taoiseach Nearly all politicians are dummies and mimics, as are most junkies and drunks. Also in nature predators learn off their roles by long-settled rote and so do their victims. Dissent is…
Communist Party of Ireland News
Europe wide day of action in protest against the cuts and austerity measures being imposed by the EU Commission and carried out be national governments. Please assemble outside the Anglo-Irish Bank headquarters St Stephen Green…
Tax Justice Network: Message to the Irish government: European Solidarity is Not a One-Way Street
Tax Justice Network: Message to the Irish government: European Solidarity is Not a One-Way Street Two EU Parliamentarians have issued a stark warning to the Irish government over its tax policies. Markus Ferber and Sven…
Service Exports: This Nation’s Saving Grace?
There’s a whole new narrative around exports at the moment, in the Irish Times anyway, which is effectively a mouthpiece for the government’s economic policy at present and as good an indicator as any of…
William Slattery Imparts Wisdom to the Nation. The Recession Diaries – September 27th
William Slattery of the financial services company State Street, and a member of the McCarthy Committee, has offered some advice to the nation in its time of need. With unemployment climbing ever higher, with 250,000…
THE WHITTAKER/LEMASS REVOLUTION: PUSHING ON AN OPEN DOOR AND CALLING IT INNOVATION
Despite the popular perception of Ireland as a closed, backward economy until the arrival of Whittaker and his economic program, the State had always had a relatively open economy. Even in the 1950s, the value…
Michael Burke | Comment is free Dublin’s brave slashers have sent Ireland back into recession
Michael Burke | Comment is free Dublin’s brave slashers have sent Ireland back into recession Michael Burke is writing in the Guardian about the Lib/Con coalitions plans to emulate Ireland and argues that by comparing…
Don’t Mock the Afflicted: Exploit Them for Literary Gain
In rather feeble attempts to demonstrate their erudition and unsuccessfully prove that they have a sense of humour, members of the medical profession have in recent years been generating articles for publication in which they…
Why Are We Being Forced Into It?
Last Friday afternoon the Irish Independent published a story about a potential Greek-style EFSF-IMF bailout for Ireland which seems to have been based entirely on the section in the Barclay’s report that first made the…
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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