29/11/11 – A turning point in British history | Paul Mason Paul Mason on good form talking about the “Autumn Statement”. And don’t kid yourself that Britain is somehow immune, either, from the “government by…
Monthly Archives For November 2011
Into the Double Dip with a Cup of Earl Grey
The domestic economy is headed into a double-dip recession according to the ESRI. And that’s just the beginning of the bad news. Government ministers and certain commentators will put it down to the Eurozone crisis (‘we’re…
Extended Interview with Padraig Yeates, author of Lockout: Dublin 1913
Worth highlighting… Two UCD students Aoife O’Neill and Michael Smalle recently completed an extended interview with Padraig Yeates, author of Lockout: Dublin 1913, which has now gone viral (in the nicest possible way). The full…
Laura Figazzolo and Bob Harris | Global Corporate Taxation and Resources for Quality Public Services
[The full report is available as a 144-page PDF. The "Double Irish" "Dutch Sandwich" is mentioned. This post contains the introduction] Global Corporate Taxation and Resources for Quality Public Services Edited by Laura Figazzolo and…
‘Another World Is Possible’ Event @ Irish Seed Savers Centre in Scariff, Co Clare on Sat Dec 3
As Eyre Square remains ‘Occupied’ by citizens anxious to change the way the system works, the Scariff-based Irish Seed Savers Association (ISSA) and Galway One World Centre (GOWC) are hosting an all day gathering which…
Shock News: EU is a largely technocratic regulatory body!
Marx & Philosophy Review of Books | Review of Anderson’s The New Old World In 2000 when he was relaunching the New Left Review Perry Anderson claimed “For the first time since the Reformation there…
Dublin Council of Trade Unions March Against Austerity 26th November 2011 | Trade Union TV
Dublin Council of Trade Unions March Against Austerity 26th November 2011 On November 2nd Ireland handed over €700 million to the unsecured bondholders of Anglo-Irish Bank. Over the next nine months, €3.5 billion in total…
For Business, Golden Days; For Workers, the Dross
This NYT piece confirms what Michael Burke and Michael Roberts have already shown. Corporate profits are up as wages are driven down, taxes are lower than expected and the economy (along with public service provision)…
No, no, no. Ireland is, alas, not an austerity role model | Real World Economics Review
No, no, no. Ireland is, alas, not an austerity role model | Real World Economics Review Larry Elliot is wrong in his chirpy assessment of the Irish economy today, lazily suggesting that Ireland has become…
Time to Get Tough on Marriage
Our Minister for Social Protection has finally got around to one of the most pressing issues facing Ireland today. Last Friday, Joan Burton announced new legislation on the issue of sham marriages. She wants to…
Flying Blind in a Storm Without Radar or Fuel
The Minister for Finance has said there was a need to have ‘an informed debate’ on the issue of the proposed VAT rises, and ‘not simply resort to rhetoric’. No one would disagree except that only…
Budget 2012 is a Budget of Choices
This is an article by Patrick Nulty, the recently elected Labour TD which was published yesterday in the Mail on Sunday. Even though we are stuck with the EU-IMF bail-out, the Minister for Finance has…
The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf
The shocking truth about the crackdown on Occupy | Naomi Wolf The power of the banking industry is one backed by the violent action of the state against its citizens. Or as Naomi Wolf put…
US investment strike | Michael Roberts
US investment strike | Michael Roberts Michael Roberts on the latest US data and the continuing investment strike. Similar to Michael Burke’s finding about corporate profits in Ireland in tandem with a continuing investment strike,…
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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