Back in 2007 I wrote an article for An Phoblacht about a debate within Sinn Fein on taking a position on coalition with Fianna Fail. I ventured a view that having upwards of 20 TDs…
Posts By Vincent Wood
Austerity To Crush The Labour Movement
The crisis that has brought us to the dire economic situation we face today is not one caused by a few rogue bankers or reckless policy decisions made by successive Finance Ministers. The Elephant in…
Leading With The Chin
The progressive political parties represented in the Dáil, Assembly and Council chambers around the country have been slow to understand the potential opened up by the Occupy movement. During the recent Presidential election, with all…
Time to Change Tack
With the election of Michael D Higgins to the Presidency and with another TD by virtue of the Dublin West election, the Irish Labour Party has been given a lift from their slippage in recent…
Occupied by the Arts
Progressive people are delighted by the blossoming of the Occupy…phenomenon. Many of us are not quite sure where it all came from so quickly and heaven knows where it is all going on to, but one…
Otherwise Occupied
It appears that progressive political parties are holding back from overt support for the Occupy protests around the world in general and Ireland in particular. Perhaps it is because they see the occupiers lacking in…
New Thinking
With public opinion being informed by the presidential contest in seems that there is some movement in support for progressive politics. With Fine Gael able to go it alone in government, there remains an opportunity for…
Maybe It’s Because – Concluding Chapter
This is the conclusion of Maybe It’s Because, Vincent’s autobiography which has yet to find a publisher. Vincent wanted to make it available online so people could read it, share and let him know what they…
Rioting!
I have just come back from three weeks in England, most of which spent in London. I watched events unfold and how the media covered it all from the initial understanding of the Police shooting…
Don’t (Just) Shoot the Messager
Remember the banking crisis? You would have thought that was the end of the good times for those financial institutions. Er, not really. Its not that the banks themselves had to try hard to change…
We Still Need to Shift the Paradigm
I am coming to the conclusion that even the most progressive of political parties are stalling. I know that there are very sound people working away at policy positions and that the left still manage…
A (friendly) challenge to progressive economists
What if an easily accessible paper was drawn up illustrating the following: What may have been earned for the people if the banks were nationalised when there were profitable What effective and efficient public utilities…
A Progressive Oppostion
It looks likely that there will be 14 Sinn Féin and up to 10 progressive left deputies in the incoming Dáil. These 24 progressive left representatives need to eclipse Fianna Fail as the opposition to…
Tough Negotiators
As opinion polls keep rolling in and showing either a FG/Labour coalition of a majority FG government, perhaps its time to turn some attention to what is likely to happen in the few months after…
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Dublin Opinion
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- 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
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