For ILR’s first podcast, we interviewed the leading progressive criminologist Dr. Paul O’Mahony. The interview covered a range of topics including the way in which the popular media shapes public perceptions of – and political…
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November 7th Afternoon: The Recession Diaries
Maybe I’m getting paranoid but I can’t help feeling that we’re being primed to blame the incoming Obama administration if our inflow of foreign investment starts drying up, resulting in massive dislocations in our economy. …
Dawn of the dead economists – Keynes, Marx and the search for alternatives
John Maynard Keynes once remarked that “practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist”. Are we approaching a time when practical men…
December 11th Afternoon: The Recession Diaries
Did anyone catch it? Stephen Collins did but he didn’t give us the maths. When Minister Lenihan introduced the Finance Bill he made a small amendment in the new income levy, imposing an extra one percent on…
Today is the Future
I remember watching the race riots on television news – Watts, Harlem, Hough and Newark. I remember my first lesson from the Bible as taught me by my mother – a Christian fundamentalist daughter of…
Cometh the hour, cometh Gilmore
During the unkind years of the neo-liberal consensus, which were dominated by the free-market/small-government/low-tax/eat-what-you-kill/greed-is-good mentality that pretty well everyone now recognises to have been a failure, it was exceptionally difficult for the Labour party in…
Those Crazy Greeks!!
“I Will Just Finish This Drink, and then We Will Have the Riot!” I have been watch with bemused contempt the rubbish rioting of the idiot Greeks over the past few days on the television…
December 8th 2008: The Recession Diaries
David McWilliams has produced a table. In fact, two tables (I’ve collapsed it into one). Standing on these tables he spreads the gospel – in order to avoid bankruptcy and ‘decades’ of misery (decades, mind…
November 3rd Afternoon: The Recession Diaries
Everybody altogether – let’s help Shane Coleman. In his opinion piece in the Sunday Tribune yesterday Shane took us all to task for being selfish, greedy and indifferent to the economic crisis upon us. So…
December 7th Evening: The Recession Diaries
Preheat the oven to Gas Mark 5. Put it in a roasting tray, season with salt and pepper and place on the middle rack. Cook for 20 minutes per pound and when finished take it…
Novermber 11th Evening: The Recession Diaries
How long is this puppy going to bark? How long is this recession going to last? Can we look into a crystal ball? Can we call upon history? Estimating the depth and the length of…
November 10th Afternoon: The Recession Diaries
Finally, a slim ray of light. ‘The problem we have in the public finances is as a result of the fact that the economy is in a recession . . . we have a problem…
It Must Be a Drag to Be a Queen
She make me proud to be Spanish! Is our wonderful queen of Spain, Sofia, who has been making a splash this week, and I don’t not mean in the toilet, with all the revelations in…
Test It for Satan’s DNA!!
What is different? Si, I have had a shave!! I espect most of you seeing this photograph up aboves was thinking, “Oh, No, here we go, Manuel is going to jump on the Russell Brand…
Sins of the Father
Dublin Opinion
- 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
- Alan Ahearne, Johnny Boy May 6, 2013Alan Ahearne, Central Bank of Ireland & NUIG, writing in 2006 that Ireland’s property bubble was caused by condoms. […]Conor McCabe
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