Over at Dublin Opinion they’re calling the leader of the Opposition terrible names – names I never read in the Bible. What exactly did Enda Kenny say to deserve this? Well, he said a lot. 4,000…
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August 22nd Morning: The Recession Diaries
Truly, a tale of two economic cities. First, the Irish Times heads an article ‘Wage Increases Higher than EU Average in 2007′. Citing a recent European Industrial Relations Observatory survey it stated: ‘Irish workers enjoyed higher…
August 21st Morning: The Recession Diaries
Yes, yes and yes again. ‘What Ireland did in the 1990s is something that had never really been done before by anyone. We imported development. Most modern economies plugged foreign direct investment into an existing…
Denis O’Brien and the “Little People”
Updating this article which was first published on November 22nd 2008 and reposting it after the publishing of the final report of the Moriarty Tribunal. I felt it was necessary to complete Denis O’Brien’s story…
Humourless Chinese Live Up to Racial Stereotype Yet Again!!
Is NOT a Chinese reference, is a very funny reference to Mongs!! I espect you have all seen the papers complaining about the Spanish men’s basketball team making the slitty-eyes gesture before going off to…
August 20th Morning: The Recession Diaries
The Irish Times leader writer is in an upbeat mood – or, at least, sliver-lining gazing. With the prices of oil and basic food commodities falling, this hopefully will take some of the inflationary pressure…
August 18th Soggy Sandwich Lunch: The Recession Diaries
Must have been a slow news week. The Sunday Tribune reported on ICTU’s proposals to combat inflation. They claimed they were submitted to the national pay talks two weeks ago. However, the pay talks had…
August 16th Morning: The Recession Diaries
What a trooper – Denis O’Brien riding shotgun through the radioactive land that is our economy to bring us the good news of recovery and redemption. The masses have waited and are not disappointed. The…
August 15th Morning: The Recession Diaries
Just when you despair of sensible commentary in our media, along comes someone like Carl O’Brien, Social Affairs Correspondent of the Irish Times. Writing today, he puts the educational challenges facing society into context –…
August 14th Late: The Recession Diaries
Fidel Castro once said that in the classless society there would be no need for universities because all society would be a learning experience. I don’t think he was being literal, just posing the possibility…
A Little Learning Go a Long Way!!
The idiot mayor of the Gallego town of Oleiros have built a statue picture of Che Guevara’s face on a roundabout, using public funds, during the night-time so that nobody will complain. What a moron!…
August 13th Evening (Still Raining): The Recession Diaries
You probably missed this piece on RTE: RTE Reporter (on the rooftop of a manufacturing plant, helicopter in the background): We are with Tuck McGrath, CEO of Irish Enterprises. Mr. McGrath, why are you closing…
Book Review: Black Books
If, like me, you have read Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Truth and Method, Jean-Paul Sartre’s Being and Nothingness, Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s The Phenomenology of Perception, and Jacques Derrida’s Of Grammatology and Dissemination from cover to cover, and all…
And Yet, If You Squint, It Just Look Like Shit!!
One of my wonderful, pious, intrepid apparition spotters in America alert me to the news that Our Lady was recently making an appearance in Salinas, California, at the Old Town Bar & Grill restaurant. Our…
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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