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By the time you are read this, most probably the peoples of lovely pissing Ireland will once again be slovenly paupers dressed in rags with begging bowls and long unkempt hair and straggly beards and cheap trainers.  This is will be because the Irish government is today introducing its most [...]

The Communist Party of Ireland are organising a public meeting at Matt Merrigan Hall, 55 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1 next Thursday, the 10th of December at 7.30pm.
The talk is titled: The Budget: A Response from the Left and the speakers include:

Michael Taft (Research Officer, Unite Trade Union, well know around here, and for [...]

One could despair. All the major political parties are supporting another round of fiscal contraction, though they may differ on the balance of tax increases and public spending cuts. In this respect, Fianna Fail has won that particular battle, we are just fighting within the parameters they have set. There is seemingly no challenge to [...]

Sinn Féin launched their pre-budget submission yesterday with a press conference in Buswell’s hotel, and a document which it claimed would provide the road to economic recovery. Within the current debate dominated by the rethoric of slash and burn, it was good to find out that Sinn Féin are arguing against the strategy of cuts [...]

So, Professor John O’Hagan wants to cut economic growth, undermine business profits and throw more people out of work while saving only a fractional amount on the borrowing requirement; not to mention the risk of embedding debt into the economy going forward. Not a good day’s work.
Now, I’m positive Professor O’Hagan doesn’t want any of [...]