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Monday, Feb 6th 2012


Articles Covering Irish Economy

The IFSC Doesn’t Even Buy Ireland a Pint

With the IFSC now central to the government’s growth plans, some figures which may be of interest.
The only figure I can find for how much corporation tax the IFSC contributed is the figure for 2010.
it’s €1.4 billion - Dept. of the Taoiseach last July, ( citing a private report, not Revenue, which is interesting in [...]

Let Us Not Worry Our Little Heads

The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton is setting a target of 100,000 net new jobs by 2016 on the eve of the Government’s launch of the Action Plan on Jobs.  Does this mean that the Action Plan will create 100,000 net new jobs by 2016?  No.  Does this mean that without the Action [...]

Protest at cuts in small rural schools Dublin, 1st February 2012

An article by Paula Geraghty of Trade Union TV • February 6th 2012

Protest at cuts in small rural schools Dublin, 1st February 2012
Hundreds of teachers, parents and school children came from all over Ireland to protest at Minister Ruairí Quinn’s proposed cuts to small schools in Dublin when the Dáil was debating the bill.

Resource Exploration Options and the Irish Business Model

In October 2011 Pat Rabbtte gave out thirteen licenses to twelve companies (press release here). The amount of blocks left around Ireland can be seen in this PDF map here, and the way it is done in the UK and other countries is explained in this SIPTU document from last year, available here (see pages [...]

The EU fanatics have come to such a policy dead end that they really no longer care what happens to the country

The following is from Frank Keoghan of the People’s Movement on the Austerity Treaty. It was also published in the latest issue of People’s News.
The EU Permanent Austerity Treaty will be the final nail in the coffin of the Irish economy, if it is ratified either by the Dail or by referendum. It will also [...]

Bluestack Energy and the Atlantic Margin Licensing Round

The positive outcome of the 2011 Atlantic Margin Licensing Round will help bring a new momentum to the level of exploration activity in our offshore. Ireland must continue to communicate the message to international exploration companies that Ireland is open for business and that the Irish offshore has real potential.”
So said Pat Rabbitte, Minister for [...]

Working Our Way into the Poorhouse

As the Joint Labour Committees legislation wends its way through the Dail - a bill that will lead to less protection for workers in many low-paid sectors - it is timely to look at the growth in deprivation for an increasing number in the workforce; namely the low-paid.  The CSO defines deprivation by reference to [...]

Campaigners Say Fiscal Treaty Is ‘Doublethink’

Press release from Debt Justice Action’s Not Our Debt campaign.
The campaign group Anglo: Not Our Debt has sharply criticized the EU’s new ‘fiscal treaty’. Campaign spokesperson Marie Moran described the treaty as “akin to someone being advised to keep the doors of their house locked tomorrow while thieves were ransacking it today”. “There is something [...]

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 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 [...]

Last Night the Government Signed Up to €6 Billion More in Austerity Measures

The Government, in signing the Fiscal Treaty, has effectively committed itself to introducing up to €6 billion more in tax increases and spending cuts in the medium-term, over and above what it has already planned.  While the news in the short-term will, understandably, focus on whether a referendum will be necessary, once attention starts honing [...]

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Sins of the Father

Sins of the Father:

Tracing the Decisions

That Shaped the Irish Economy,

by Conor McCabe

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