Friday, Jan 27th 2012
Where: Industries Hall of the RDS in Dublin City
When: Saturday, 30th October (ALL-DAY)
‘Claiming our Future’ is an event to stimulate the emergence of a cross sectoral community of interest and action for a more equal, inclusive and sustainable Ireland. We are organising this event because we are deeply dissatisfied with the direction of Government policy [...]
Ireland/Spain Update - Paul Krugman
Regular readers may remember that I’ve written a few posts — here and here — about bond yields in Ireland and Spain. Both had big housing bubbles and busts; but their post-bust politics have been very different, with Ireland quickly adopting austerity, Spain being much more grudging. And for a while [...]
The Usurper Bendedict: Don’t worry, is just a bit of wind, queen.
Queen: Si, but I think I may have follow through, usurper.
The usurper Bendedict is on the fake papal visit to Britain this week in an attempt to butter up the Queen and Prince Phillips and divert attention away from sundry ill-doings and goings-on [...]
While a nation was parsing the Taoiseach’s metaphorical breathalyser results, the work of providing a clear alternative to his Government’s failed fiscal strategies continued apace. The Community Platform launched its 4Steps2Recovery campaign. It proposes a fiscal package of €3 billion of tax increases for the next budget - a package that would primarily impact on [...]
Using evidence-based policy to build better and safer communities
Instead of throwing increasing amounts of taxpayers’ money at an ineffective prison system, we should be investing in communities by way of prevention and early intervention strategies, addressing the marginalization associated with offending behaviour, and thereby reducing crime.
This is the core message which the Irish Penal Reform [...]
The question of populism and radical change has re-emerged in American politics, first with Obama and now with the tea party movement. However, it was another story that recently caught my eye. The New York Times carried a story about Republican ‘agents’ (or ‘operatives’) encouraging homeless people to stand unopposed in the Green Party primaries. [...]
Details of the one-day conference and how to get regular updates on the situation in Columbia from Grupo Raíces can be found at the end of this article.
When Alvaro Uribe stood down as president of Colombia in August 2010, the BBC’s correspondent claimed that the right-wing leader “may go down as one of Colombia’s [...]
Stephen Wilkinson | Are Cuba’s communist days finally over?
Good analysis of the economic changes being made in Cuba, following the announcement that Cuba is to reduce its state workforce by 500,000 by the middle of 2011.
"Cuba is to remain a one-party communist state for the foreseeable future.
This leads some to suggest that the Cubans are [...]
Anne Costello of the Community Platform argues that Progressive tax reform will promote economic activity. It will retain consumer demand, protect jobs and protect low and middle income earners.
The Government is planning to cut €3 billion from public spending in the coming budget. They say there is no alternative. The Community Platform, a network of [...]
In a way the contribution that has remained with me the most from my very limited attendance at the Desmond Greaves school was William Kingston. Kingston, who is Professor and Research Associate at the School of Business Studies in TCD and has specialised on issues of public policy and administration, set out his stall as [...]
