A system in crisis There were two remarkable things about the Lisbon Treaty referendum that have been almost completely ignored by the men and women whose job it is to chew over Irish politics on…
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ILR Podcast: interview with Michael Taft, “Towards a New Economic Narrative”
Following on from the publication of “Towards a New Economic Narrative“, we interviewed Michael Taft about his ideas for the Irish economy. We started off by asking Michael what was actually wrong with the Irish…
ILR Podcast: Interview with John Carr of INTO
For ILR’s second podcast, we interviewed INTO General Secretary John Carr. The interview focused initially on the recent cuts in the education as announced in Budget 2009 and how the INTO and other unions should…
A Missed Opportunity
Recently on South Belfast Diary I leaked the draft Section 8 of Labour’s 21st Century Commission, dealing with Party organisation in Northern Ireland. Since 2002, the Irish Labour Party has allowed membership in the North….
Against Commercialism in Irish Education
Since we have not reached the level of commercialism in our schools that pervade an education system such as the American one, perhaps now is the time to begin the fight against the commercialism that…
Towards a New Economic Narrative
Crisis? It’s baby-crunching time. We no longer have the luxury of attacking others’ prescriptions – those issued by the Government, employers’ spokespersons and stockbroker economists. The proverbial punter at the bar is impatient: ‘So what’s…
Book Review: Muqtada by Patrick Cockburn
One of the secret weapons of the occupation forces in Iraq has been the sheer danger of reporting on the conflict. The occupiers themselves have attacked the local offices of Al-Jazeera, the broadcaster with the…
The Public Reaction of Sympathy and Outrage at the Killing of Shane Geoghan
The public reaction of profound sympathy and outrage at the killing of Shane Geoghegan, by a killer or killers involved in a bloody feud between drug-dealing gangs in Limerick, is totally justified. Shane Geoghegan was…
November 14th Evening: The Recession Diaries
Some on the Left are trying to put a brave face on the Irish Times poll today. ‘Consolidating’ support at 14 percent is one rationalisation. Another is that the Labour leader has the highest satisfaction…
ILR Podcast: Interview with Dr. Paul O’Mahony
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…
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…
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