Friday, Jan 27th 2012
Community Platforms Proposals on Taxation
Tom O’Connor, Economics Lecturer in CIT endorses the Community Platforms recently launched tax reform proposals 4 Steps 2 Recovery.
The proposals by the Community Platform will help the economy to recover in 2011
• The €3 billion in tax increases will prevent further cuts in current and capital spending, which will help [...]
I recently posted a satirical response to An Taoiseach’s call for poets to do the state some service, and I would now like to return to the question in a more direct way. The call was widely reported because it coincided with the installation of Harry Clifton as Ireland Professor of Poetry, most notably it [...]
Seven Towers, in association with Salmon Press, presents the Dublin launch of ’Dreams for Breakfast‘ by Susan Millar Du Mars and ‘Frightening New Furniture‘ by Kevin Higgins.
Venue: Chaplin’s Pub, Hawkins Street, D2
Date: Saturday, September 25th
Time: 5pm
T: 0872283351
Key Trends in the World Economy: July US trade deficit second worst since economic recovery began
John Ross always provides a different perspective in terms of analysis of the global economy than you get in almost all of the business papers.
"Most media commentary on the July US trade figures continued to concentrate on very short-term month-by-month [...]
This is an article I’ve just come across as part of the chapter on industry and natural resources. I think it’s a good companion piece to the Dublin Shell To Sea campaign’s Someday Independent.
The article’s below the fold as it’s a bit long. It dates from 6 February 1974. The more things change, the more [...]
Every June, the schoolchildren of the Greater Manchester area nominate and vote for their Lollipop Lady of the Year. Lollipop Ladies are a British institution, known abroad variously as Crossing Guards, School Crossing Supervisors, Crossing Patrol Operatives, Pediatric Pedestrian Transverse Street Enablers, Lollipop Men (in Muslim countries), and, in France, as Les Otaries Effrayantes. We [...]
Book Review:Yeats and Violence: Michael Wood (Oxford University Press, 2010)
Violence moves restlessly through Yeats’ poetry. It is there in ‘The Magi‘ (written in 1913) with its Three Kings who ‘Being by Calvary’s turbulence unsatisfied’ wait for something more, another disturbance of the world order, a revelation of sorts, intimating an appetite for violence.
The violence in [...]
Last Tuesday, Sept 7th, France virtually came to a standstill through large scale strikes and demonstrations against the intentions of the Sarkozy elit to increase the pensionable age from 60 to 62 !! For many of us living in Ireland, and in the UK, facing the prospect of pensions at the age of 65, 66, 68 [...]
EU-India Trade Invaders | Corporate Europe Observatory
A new joint report from Corporate Europe Observatory and India FDI Watch reveals how, in the negotiations for a trade deal between the EU and India, the EU Commission and the Indian government have handed the agenda over to corporate lobby groups. This big-business-first agenda will put at risk [...]
On Monday Michael Burke put up an excellent post on the news that the 10-year government debt climbed to 5.7% by close of trading on Friday. Since then of course, we know that yesterday it climbed to over 6%, reaching levels unseen since just before the 750 bn EU bank bailout was put in place [...]
