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…
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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…
September 16th Evening: The Recession Diaries
I admire people who have absolutely no shame about going public with their proposals, no matter how weird, strange and utterly nonsensical those proposals might be. Such people don’t care whether they appear foolish; they…
September 14th Afternoon: The Recession Diaries
With the pay talks nearly at an end, IBEC, in the form of its representative here on earth – our friend Turlough – is warning of the gravest repercussions if Irish employees are granted the…
They Should Bang Her and Throw Away the Key!!
She even have the audacity to look you in the eye!! I cannot read any Italian (is a stupid language ripped off of Spanish) but I am reliably informed by the Communist Atheist English paper…
Class and Ireland: Part 2
I’m standing at the corner of Cathal Brugha Street and Thomas Lane, waiting for my friend Lida to arrive. She’s starting up her own business soon, and wants me to write a blurb for the…
September 10th Afternoon: The Recession Diaries
Good lord – is Master Batt O’Keefe in danger of turning into a modern-day Huey Long, a radical redistributionist who wants to confiscate wealth from the rich and give it to everyone else? He seems to…
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Dublin Opinion
- HIPSTER IFSC May 22, 2013[…]Conor McCabe
- 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
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