On Valentine’s Day, the Anglo: Not Our Debt campaign has called on the Irish Government to show people in Ireland that it “really cares” by suspending repayments of Anglo Irish Bank’s debts.
The Debt Justice Action network - encompassing a unique coalition of representatives from the trade union, community, faith-based, global justice, environmental and academic sectors - acknowledged [...]

When NAMA takes over a building it appoints a receiver’s firm to manage and to realize the value of that property. In the case of 66/67 Great Strand Street when enforcement action was taken on the building (which basically means it was repossessed) NAMA appointed the receiver’s firm Martin Ferris.
But when Unlock NAMA occupied the [...]

Thanks to Anne who sent this to Irish Left Review and a number of other undisclosed recipients last night.
This is a note from my son who is half-Irish, half-Greek, living in Pireaus and protesting against the new round of poverty measures about to be imposed on Greece.
Hello everybody,
We all went to the protest yesterday.
There must [...]

Please note William Wall’s new website address www.williamwall.net
The behaviour of the EU states towards Greece is inexplicable in the terms in which the EU defines itself. It is, first and foremost, a failure of solidarity.
The ‘austerity package’, as the newspapers like to call it, seeks to impose on Greece terms that no people can accept. Even [...]

This is a recording of the talk I gave at the Unlock Nama campaign launch, which took place on Saturday 28 Jan 2012, at 66-67 Great Strand Street, Dublin 1. It’s about 22 minutes long.
At the start I drew a diagram on some sheet paper on the wall behind me, the image above is [...]

In an interview last year with the online journal, Proactive Investors, Tony O’Reilly Jnr did a pretty good job of explaining the business model of Irish middleman capitalism, although I doubt that was his intention.
The link to the recording is here, but the edited clip itself is at the end of the post.
The extract in [...]

The Finance Bill running to nearly 300 pages is out.  There’s the odd sliver of good news - the 5 percent levy on the sheltered income from legacy property tax relief for those earning over €100,000, for instance.  Otherwise, it’s a pretty grim affair, putting into effect a regressive budget.
But there are little stories that [...]

As we approach the centenary of the Republic’s Proclamation in a state of economic chaos and democratic underdevelopment will we be remembered for our failures rather than our resolution?
On the face of what we know, the Irish economic crisis will trigger similar events to some of our previous catastrophes in the 19th and 20th centuries.  [...]

With the European Union (EU) heading into a double dip recession, even before the peak level of GDP of the previous business cycle has been regained (Figure 1), it is evident that the solutions adopted to deal with Europe’s economic crisis have failed. But the focus of financial markets on Greece’s debt crisis should not [...]

With the IFSC now central to the government’s growth plans, some figures which may be of interest.
The only figure I can find for how much corporation tax the IFSC contributed is the figure for 2010.
it’s €1.4 billion - Dept. of the Taoiseach last July, ( citing a private report, not Revenue, which is interesting in [...]