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Win or Lose . . . What Happens Next After Lisbon?

 
Despite my slight tilt towards a Yes vote (as noted in the comments to this post by a contributor to the Cedar Lounge Revolution), I’m really much more interested in the processes of the Lisbon Treaty Referendum than in the issues. The reason for that? As a friend said to me at the weekend, […]

The Irish Times - May 12, 2008 -(sub req) Press Council's suppression of dissenting voice forced me to quit

The Irish Times - May 12, 2008 -(sub req) Press Council’s suppression of dissenting voice forced me to quit
John Horgan, former Chairperson of the Labour Court, on his resignation from the Irish Press Council because of their unwillingness to allow for the publication of minority dissenting opinion when judgements on the outcome of cases are […]

Labour and the Fourth Parties…

Having read Michael Taft’s piece on Labour and the two and a half party system last month some thoughts struck me which were underscored in conversation with someone close to the Green Party. They had done a neat little chart which demonstrated that historically it has been smaller fourth parties which have a better chance […]

Working Together or Failing Apart: The Irish Left…

It’s hardly a radical proposition that the Irish Left is a curious beast. It is small, gaining perhaps at best twenty five per cent of the national vote at elections. It is scattered, with leftist elements within the Irish Labour Party, Sinn Féin, the Green Party and beyond amongst a number of much smaller […]

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 »

Latest Articles

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 »