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An Irish Hospital is No Place to be Sick

“The one thing I want for the country I love is a health system that is accessible to every citizen regardless of their wealth.”

- Mary Harney, Minister for Health and Children, 29th September 2004.
It is no understatement to say that the health system in this state lurches from crisis to crisis like some uncontrollable […]

Either Rocking the Cradle or the System; Women in Irish Politics

It is a sad fact of reality that women, despite making up 51% of the population, only hold less than 13% of seats in the Dáil, leaving Ireland ranking 59th out of 120 nations examined for parliamentary representation of women in 2006. Apologists for this pitiful situation will of course either a) blame the […]

Latest Essays

The Many Faults of Co-Location

The simplistic idea behind co-location - to create extra space for public patients in public hospitals by transferring the... More »

Lisbon and Immigration: Why Ireland Voted No

The category ‘immigrant’ has been systematically substituted for the category ‘worker’, only to be supplanted in its turn by... More »

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Class and Ireland - Part 1

It is not the poverty
Of soil in Leitrim that makes me raise my hat
To fools with fifty pounds in... More »

September 3rd Morning: The Recession Diaries

IBEC’s Turlough O’Sullivan has an unfortunate ideological quirk but it is treatable.  It seems he can’t say the words... More »