I have an article on Politico.ie about the Fiscal Compact Treaty, and how all the economic decisions made by the Irish government are not dictated to them by our “EU masters” but follow the usual power template of Ireland’s “comprador class”.
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The final draft of the Fiscal compact is now available, meaning Irish pundits can no [...]

On the evening of Wednesday 18th January, the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) held a protest against an official Israeli parliamentary visit to the Oireachtas. This visit of two Israeli Knesset [Parliament] members and their entourage was kept secret by the Irish state until the evening before the two MKs arrived. With less than 12 [...]

Don’t Mention the Chocolate War. I was Mention It Once, But I Think I am Get Away with It.
Unless you have been living in a yurt (which is a tent containing pro-biotics), you will have by now have heard of the assortment of people, made homeless by predatory borrowing, who are making themselves at [...]

Below is an interview with Professor of Economics at the University of Athens, Yanis Varoufakis which I recorded on Wednesday the 14th of September in Leinster House. Michael Taft, Research Officer with Unite the trade union was also on hand to ask some questions.
Yanis is the author of several books, two which were published during [...]

There is a passage in Adam Phillips’s most recent book On Balance where he quotes Freud biographer Ernest Jones as observing that it is not the people we hate the most that we want to kill, but the people who arouse in us the most unbearable conflict. Thinking about its media campaign around its ‘crackdown’ on [...]

The September edition of the Socialist Voice is out now.
This edition includes an article by Conor McCabe on the myth of a middle class majority in Ireland. The article is replete with fascinating data, including the fact that
“With regard to wage distribution, the top 1 per cent of PAYE earners had a combined wage that [...]

This article is based on a contribution to a seminar held at the Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities last Friday called The Rise of the Indignant: Spain, Greece, Europe. Audio from the event is available here.
Politics is back on the streets of Europe, that much is clear. The PIGS are striking back. Portugal, Ireland [...]

As many are no doubt aware this Sunday will see demonstrations in Dublin, Cork, Galway and Limerick in solidarity with the Real Democracy Now movement across Europe. June 19th or J19 is the day that the people of Europe will demand that the Euro Pact is not implemented. They say that the Euro Pact, [...]

Whatever you wish to call it -euro-pact, Pact for the Euro, Euro Plus Pact- and from here on it will be known simply as the Euro Pact, public knowledge of its scope and function, in Ireland at least, has been extremely limited.
Whilst both the parties presently in government, and those that preceded them, campaigned [...]

Annually for the past nine years, the UK Department of Health have issued statistics showing a decline in the numbers of women giving Irish addresses when accessing abortion services in Britain. The 2010 figures, released earlier this week, revealed that 4,402 women gave Irish addresses to British clinics when they accessed abortion services - 12 [...]