It is quite difficult to comprehend the credibility granted to the economic establishment in terms of defining the options that we can adopt to address our economic problems. This is all the more extraordinary when considered against what can only be described as the worst reputational performance by any set of associated professions in history. [...]

Claiming Our Future - the task now is to convert an aspiration for equality and sustainability into tangible social change
Aiden Lloyd is coordinator with the European Anti-Poverty Network Ireland and a member of Is Feidir Linn
The Claiming Our Future event held last Saturday in the RDS in Dublin, which brought over 1,000 people [...]

The vulnerability of weaker sections of society becomes obvious in times of recession. Already it is clear that those who can least afford further income reductions will be asked once again to ‘share the pain’ in December. It is clear however, that sharing - in the eyes of the Government - is a fundamentally unequal [...]