Tuesday, Feb 7th 2012
Ireland has one of the most attractive tax rates for fracking companies in the world
Very important point made by Natural Gas Europe here (posted on Shell to Sea) about the licencing agreement around Shale Gas (Fracking) and needs to be understood in the context of the news today that Tamboran Resources initial exploration in north Leitrim [...]
Conflict of interest is so deeply embedded in Ireland, no one seems to notice
The cops were very swift to close down the demonstration in the NAMA building that Unlock NAMA occupied on Saturday the 28th. They haven’t been as swift though to investigate Anglo Irish Bank. A big blow to that investigation is due, apparently, [...]
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 [...]
2011 has been a very interesting year for the southern Irish party political left.
The general election in February brought the largest number of left wing deputies into the Oireachtas in its 90-year history. Sixty-three TDs were elected on a variety of social democratic, left republican, revolutionary socialist and independent left platforms.
The combined left vote broke [...]
Solidarity March for the Undocumented 17th December 2011
Hundreds of undocumented migrants, their families and supporters marched by candlelight to Dáil Éireann this afternoon on the eve of UN International Migrant to highlight the plight of the estimated 30,000 undocumented migrants living in Ireland. The march was led by a giant banner with ‘Justice for Undocumented’ [...]
The appointment of former secretary general of the Department of Justice Seán Aylward to the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture was described by the Justice for Magdalenes group as ‘a slap in the face to women who have suffered in Ireland’s Magdalene Laundries‘. This was on account of his appearance in [...]
It didn’t take long. Patrick Nulty, TD voted against the budget on Tuesday night. Suddenly, on Thursday morning an op-ed appears in the Irish Times attacking the young TD. And not just ‘attacking’ - it is one of the most vicious attacks on an individual TD you’ll read on an issue of policy. After all, Nulty [...]
This is an article by Patrick Nulty, the recently elected Labour TD which was published yesterday in the Mail on Sunday.
Even though we are stuck with the EU-IMF bail-out, the Minister for Finance has made it clear that the Government is free to choose between different tax, spending and investment policies. We may have [...]
If Darren Scully, the Fine Gael mayor of Naas, was feeling ‘sad’ yesterday, there is every chance his melancholy has taken a turn for the worse as today has progressed. Yesterday Cllr Scully was ‘sad’ preemptively, in case anyone would think him racist for refusing to deal with ‘Black Africans’ because of their ‘aggressive attitude‘. [...]
Women make up almost 50% of the population. Yet astonishingly, only 15.1% of TDs in the Dáil are women.
The 2011 general election was one of the most dramatic in recent history, with a record 84 seats changing hands. Despite this fact the number of women elected only increased marginally on the 2007 general election. In 2007 [...]
