From Caesar to Napoleon the attempt to ‘divide and conquer’ has been a favoured tactic of elites everywhere. Imperialists from the British in India to the Belgians in Rwanda instinctively understood the need to set up spurious divisions amongst their opponents.
In response the maxim of the oppressed must surely be ‘united we stand, divided we fall’.
UCD Sociologist, Kieran Allen, has called on TDs to hold a similar investigation into corporate tax dodging in Ireland as the one currently being held in the US through the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Permanent Sub-Committee of Investigations.
‘Irish politicians have proclaimed that a defence of the 12.5% profits tax regime is central to Ireland’s development strategy.
Last week, Angelina Jolie recently wrote an opinion piece for the New York Times where she revealed that she had a double mastectomy. She had tested positive for a faulty BRCA1 gene, which, she thought, gave her an 87 % risk of breast cancer and a 50 % risk of ovarian cancer.
Health Minister Edwin Poots should be removed from his position as Health Minister due to his callous approach to care homes for the elderly. Edwin Poots is the health minister and despite attempts to deflect responsibility onto chief executives of various trusts-the buck stops with him. It is he who decides whether care homes open or close in the North.
Calls for Western intervention in Syria are getting louder.
Last week rumours that dictator Bashar al-Assad had used chemical weapons against the opposition was being used as a justification for a military intervention.
Now the accusation has been thrown at the rebels.
SIPTU members at Shanganagh Waste Water Treatment Plant, Co. Dublin, began strike action today (Tuesday, 21st May) at 6.30 a.m. in response to their employer’s failure to refer a dispute relating to pay and shift premium payments to the Labour Court.
The facility treats water for domestic and commercial purposes for 248,000 people living in Dublin and Wicklow.
Bus Eireann management are about to ram in a draconian cost cutting plan, cutting drivers pay and benefits. If they succeed it will be a blueprint for ALL CIE companies; Dublin Bus will be next.
Martin Nolan Chief Executive Officer of Bus Eireann stated that the company is in a serious deteriorating financial situation, despite savage service cuts over the last 3 years.
Huge numbers of public sector workers have voted to reject the Croke Park 2 proposals. The decisive blow was dealt by the grassroots members of SIPTU who defied their union leaders. Brendan Howlin plaintively acknowledged this when he stated that ‘if 3 % more of the SIPTU vote swung Yes, it would have “got over the line”.
