David published this on Arab Spring in My Step last night.
Just back from reporting from Tahrir.
It was dark, heaving with people, tear gas swirling in the air, the sound of street battles on the side streets - sometimes very tense, sometimes bursting with excitement.
This is not the forum for a long detailed look at [...]

A loose translation: Aggressive Begging for Change.
This past month has been demonstrating the various ways in which the different nationalities of the world make clear their personal innate characteristics through their response to the austerity. In Greece, the technocratic corporate government imposed by the Illuminati cabal at the head of the IMF and European [...]

If Darren Scully, the Fine Gael mayor of Naas, was feeling ‘sad’ yesterday, there is every chance his melancholy has taken a turn for the worse as today has progressed. Yesterday Cllr Scully was ‘sad’ preemptively, in case anyone would think him racist for refusing to deal with ‘Black Africans’ because of their ‘aggressive attitude‘. [...]

Women make up almost 50% of the population. Yet astonishingly, only 15.1% of TDs in the Dáil are women.
The 2011 general election was one of the most dramatic in recent history, with a record 84 seats changing hands. Despite this fact the number of women elected only increased marginally on the 2007 general election. In 2007 [...]

Dear TDs, Senators, and MEPs,
As a gesture of goodwill towards the families across the country dependent on the assistance of the Saint Vincent De Paul, I ask that those of you in receipt of Children’s Allowance donate your December payment to the SVP urgent Christmas appeal which was launched on 21 [...]

We’re into the great expectations-management game again.  It happens once a year, just prior to the budget.  ‘Proposals’ are leaked or rumoured.  The media - colluding in this annual exercise - chase around for stories.  TDs, commentators, and people potentially affected are lined up for comment.  No one is any wiser but it fills column [...]

From the people who brought you Crisisjam

Next month will see the latest in a series of vicious budgets entailing almost four billion euro in spending cuts and tax increases. In the days preceding this calamity, Taoiseach Enda Kenny is scheduled to address the nation on television to offer words of comfort and inspiration. The text [...]

This was originally written for Progressive-Economy
The Minister for Finance’s comments justifying VAT increases is deeply worrying for it evinces either considerable unfamiliarity with basic economic facts; or considerable indifference to such facts in pursuit of a particular agenda.  Here’s what he had to say on RTE (22 minutes in):
‘It (the VAT increase) will apply to everybody [...]

Lately there has been some obscurity around what ODS actually stands for and what it’s internal principles or tenets are as a movement. This obscurity is to blame, in part, by aggressive attempts at ‘pushing the party line’ or usage of entryist tactics at General Assemblies by the Socialist Workers Party (SWP). These attempts have [...]

Introduction: a pattern of dependency
The collapse of the Irish economy has come as a particular shock to many people, at home and abroad, because of its seemingly remarkable success in the preceding years, the period of very rapid economic growth that saw the country, from the early 1990s onwards, described as the ‘Celtic Tiger’.  However, [...]