Cathal O’Loghlin has done the readers of my Notes on the Front blog a favour by putting up his Irish Independent article in the comment section yesterday (I’m assuming the poster ‘Honest Cathal‘ is the author). Whichever Cathal it is, he is certainly in feisty form. He manages to call ICTU and CORI liars - [...]

Si, is the Social Partners: Is Totally Unnatural!
Is a photo of ICTU leader David Begg and fat-lipped Irish Taoiseach Biff O’Cowen engaged in one of their lurid dances around one another that is only educational in a negative way and children should not be allow to watch.
My soul has receive a sick note from [...]

It was always going to come down to public sector pay.  There were lengthy discussion on taxation, public expenditure cuts, pension protection, job saving measures.  But the talks in Government buildings on the Strategic Framework document, which collapsed early this morning, were never going to come undone over these issues. It wasn’t even going to crash [...]

It really is surreal.  Hundreds of jobs are going in the banking sector, Retail Excellence Ireland warns that 25,000 jobs could be lost in the first quarter.  The economy is turning in on itself.  And the Government is obsessing over public expenditure cuts.  People are demanding to know what can be done to protect their [...]