Chinese Vice-President Xi Jinping’s visit to Ireland last month highlighted the way in which the impact of the international financial crisis is bringing about a change in the perception of China in Europe. It is useful…
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Time to get new negotiators
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…
Normalising Apartheid: The Israeli Parliamentary Visit to Ireland
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…
#Occupy_Quality_Street!!
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…
ILR Interview with Yanis Varoufakis
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…
From the Wires
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,…
The September edition of the Socialist Voice is out now
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,…
The Rise of the Indignant: Spain, Greece, Europe
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…
J19 Against the Europact
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…
19-J Against the Euro Pact Real Democracy in Europe NOW!
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…
Abortion in Ireland: Ignoring Reality
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…
Saviour of Last Resort: The Modest Proposal as the Eurozone’s last line of defence
This post appeared on Yanis’ blog today. Republishing it here with the kind permission of the author. In his pivotal article in yesterday’s Financial Times, Martin Wolf put the matter starkly: “The eurozone, as designed,…
How Democratic is Democracy?
One of the most interesting aspects of the protests in Spain has been the emergence of the debate on democracy. Since September 11, democracy, or at least the Western capitalist conception of democracy, has been…
Obama in Loolaaland: the presidential visit and the production of belief
“…more than 11,000 articles were published in over 3,500 publications in 110 countries in the 48 hours surrounding US President Barack Obama’s visit to Ireland.” from rte.ie These days, before we eat something, we like…
Sins of the Father
Dublin Opinion
- Tax Avoidance : Fly-Tipping with Suits June 19, 2013[…]Conor McCabe
- Let’s make tax avoidance history… June 18, 2013[…]Conor McCabe
- Sad Putin at the G8… June 18, 2013[…]Conor McCabe
- The Gathering : Enniskillen-Style June 18, 2013[…]Conor McCabe
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