With the Dail debate playing in the background, some notes on what Brian Lenihan insists is not a bail-out.Professor Morgan Kelly relates an incident at a conference he attended: ‘Bankers are well known for getting…
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A Paradigm Shift to the Left among ABC1′s?
Do the findings of the TASC survey, The Solidarity Factor – Public Perceptions of Unequal Ireland, published this week, represent a paradigm shift to the left among Irish adults, particularly among wealthier people? According to the…
September 30th Evening: The Recession Diaries
Sometimes something happens that takes one breath away. It makes it hard to speak, never mind coherently. The Government’s bank guarantee proposal is one such. It constitutes a fundamental capitulation, not to the logic of the…
Class and Ireland: Part 3 – Records of a Floating Life
Night is gone, a dawn comes up in birds and sounds of the city. There will be light to live by, things to see: my eyes will lift to where the sun in vermilion sits,…
September 28th Lunchtime: The Recession Diaries
I was pulling my hair out when a friend rang me pulling her hair out. A lot of hair being grabbed. Let’s start with my hair. Noel Whelan has given us the benefit of his deep and comprehensive research…
From Marx to the Market: On the Road in Cambodia and Thailand
The view from the world’s second-tallest building, the Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur, is a bit of an anti-climax – once you get near the top there’s not much to see that can compare with…
Imitation of Life
I’ve always found dubious the notion that certain times in the past were ‘a more innocent age’; it is bandied about a lot when referring to the more demure sexual mores of times gone, the…
The Appalling State of Irish Maternity Services
The state of the Ireland’s maternity services is deeply unsatisfactory. In August of last year, in considerable frustration and anger at the lack of any cohesive action to make improvements, I wrote to the Irish…
September 23rd Morning: The Recession Diaries
Ah, the low-paid – if words were money they’d be living on easy street. Everybody wants to help the low-paid. Certainly, Fianna Fail was determined to. Shortly before becoming Taoiseach, Brian Cowen had this to…
Half-Housed Assets
“If you owe us £1,000, it’s your problem; if you owe us £1 million, it’s our problem” was how Justice Moriarty described the AIB’s attitude towards lending when he was chairing the tribunal investigating Charlie…
The Sacred Book of the Werewolf
Victor Pelevin – Faber & Faber, 2008 Towards the end of the film The Lives of Others, the dissident writer Georg Dreyman, who has out-lasted the Stasi and its state to find a comfortable perch…
September 20th Afternoon: The Recession Diaries
Good riddance. Or as WorldbyStorm writes over at Cedar Lounge Revolution, ‘The PDs get a a four week reprieve. Then they die.‘ Can’t come soon enough. The only downside is that we’ll have to endure…
Stop Watching the Skies!
This is how the Inquisition deal with Nosey Parkers! I have read this week about how the telescope was invented not in Netherland but in Spain, a fact which everyone has known for years here…
September 17th Evening: The Recession Diaries
As of this writing, the full text of the draft pay deal is still not readily available but the broad outlines are clear. The pay element contains real wage cuts, the provision for the low-paid is…
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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