Presenter Mick Fitzgerald was joined in the studio by Mícheál Mac Donncha of Sinn Féin, Cllr Anthony Lavin of Fine Gael, Sins of Our Father author Conor McCabe and freelance Journalist Ultan Monahan to discuss…
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Occupying NAMA buildings isn’t just a gesture – it’s essential research
This article was originally published in the journal.ie last night. How many speculators does it take to change a light bulb? The answer is none. They still think the broken one works. The business model of…
Conflict of interest is so deeply embedded in Ireland, no one seems to notice
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…
Nama, Social Housing and the Leasing Initiative
On Wednesday 21 December 2011 Minister for the Environment Phil Hogan announced that NAMA were to make 2,000 properties available to the Government for social housing. The units, which were said to make up 20%…
The Illegal Loans with Non-Existent Title Claims that are Sitting on NAMA’s Books
I’m working on a paper on NAMA at the moment, but I’ve been so tied up with other stuff that I’m only getting around to reading its 2010 annual report. It’s incredible stuff. NAMA actually…
Hostile and Notorious: The Conditions of Private Property | MARK PASCHAL – Viewpoint Magazine
Hostile and Notorious: The Conditions of Private Property | MARK PASCHAL – Viewpoint Magazine Very good essay here on the conditions around private property and how this relates to the occupy movement, specifically the recent occupations…
To Joe Higgins From Irish Left Review
NamaWineLake has an excellent post on the relatively simple point that if the Kenny Report (first published in 1974) was implemented tomorrow the government could save the money that it expects to raise from the…
The Green Party and Housing
I return again, like a dog to a buried bone, to the subject of the Grey Party (sorry Green Party). I took the opportunity, recently, of republishing their 2007 manifesto lest it be forgotten, and…
Be Wary of Those Interests Who Offer Their Services Free of Charge
With the crash in the Irish economy we started to hear a lot about the actions of ‘elites’, and their part in our downfall. But despite the short roll call of the most sinful developers,…
The Great Fiscal Shell Game. The Recession Diaries – April 22nd
The only enjoyable aspect of Eurostat’s decision to reclassify the Anglo-Irish Bank subsidy as a liability on the General Government Balance/Debt is to watch the Government’s hands move even faster in an increasingly vain attempt…
Finally, A Stimulating Discussion on the Economy
Last night’s Tonight with Vincent Browne featured Michael Taft, CIT economist Tom O’Connor, and Labour Finance spokesperson Joan Burton. The topic was the recent ERSI report which predicted that the economy would see Ireland moving…
A Good Friday – For The Banks
On Tuesday, 30 March 2010, Brian Lenihan - Minister for Finance in a state with a €20 billion deficit and almost 450,000 people unemployed – stood before the Dáil and announced that over the next number…
Minister, You do not have the authority to implement a bank bailout of this scale
[Speech by Arthur Morgan TD, Sinn Féin's Finance Spokesperson delivered in the Dail yesterday in response to Minister Lenihan's announcement of the recapitalisation details following the beginning of the process to move the loans to...
Govt bail out of banks makes taxpayer pay cost of crony capitalism
[Labour Party Finance Spokesperson Joan Burton's speech to the Dail after Finance Minister Brian Lenihan announced the details of the recapitalisation of Irish banks after loans had been taken into NAMA] The Irish taxpayer is…
Sins of the Father
Dublin Opinion
- In God’s Country May 12, 2013Working on the last few pages of a chapter for a book edited by Colin Coulter and Angela Nagle. I’ve just been rigid with anger over the last couple of weeks - more than usual - and I think the process of writing this chapter is the reason why. This little paragraph sums it up […]Conor McCabe
- Fishy Talks Galway, 13 May 2013 May 12, 2013Speaking tomorrow in Galway before Donal O’Kelly’s performance of Bat the Father, Rabbit the Son. The title of the talk is: All the Devils are Here - A Short History of the Irish Entrepreneur. All welcome. […]Conor McCabe
- The Indo: Think I Know The Choice I’d Make.. May 9, 2013[…]Conor McCabe
- Alan Ahearne, Johnny Boy May 6, 2013Alan Ahearne, Central Bank of Ireland & NUIG, writing in 2006 that Ireland’s property bubble was caused by condoms. […]Conor McCabe
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