The CSO has just published the first quarter National Accounts. If you want to avoid the spin go straight to Michael Burke’s cogent analysis on Progressive-Economy. Here I just want to look at one long-term…
Monthly Archives For June 2010
Green Party Saving The Nation – Only the Dog Breeding Bill remains
At this time of hardship, unemployment, emigration and even negative equity, the Greys have secured a famous victory and guaranteed their place in history. Last night, in a nail-biting near-finale they and their coalition partner…
Better Scrutiny Of The Rich Set Would Be Good For Us All
The number of Ireland’s rich, measured as those having investable assets of $1 million or more, rose by over 10 % last year. To top it off ‘Ireland is perceived to be ahead of the…
Spinning Our Way To Prosperity. The Recession Diaries – June 28th
Adrian Weckler is doing what journalists should be doing – investigating stories rather than report press releases. We have, of late, been subjected to an avalanche of job-creation announcements. Take one example: Weedle, a Dublin-based…
Where’s the Sacrifice?
Performance Poetry goes Live, Wild and Nationwide with Dave Lordan and Elaine Feeney Writers and performers Dave Lordan and Elaine Feeney are to tour their much anticipated new books with their Where’s the Sacrifice? tour…
IPRT Forum to address exploding prisoner numbers, as numbers reach 4,317
The Irish Penal Reform Trust, Ireland’s leading voice for penal reform, will today host an Open Public Forum, entitled Exploding Prisoner Numbers – Causes, Effects and Solutions. The event, which is chaired by the Inspector…
This Shambolic Republic
Book Review: Ireland’s Economic Crash, by Kieran Allen, The Liffey Press Kieran Allen’s excellent analysis of Ireland’s recession, the first that this writer has encountered from an Irish Marxist, is predicated on a single simple…
The 2010 TASC Annual Lecture, delivered by Professor Kathleen Lynch
On the 17th of June last Professor Kathleen Lynch, Professor of Equality Studies at the School of Social Justice at UCD, gave the 2010 TASC Annual Lecture at the Royal Irish Academy. It was called…
Irish Housing, 1981 – 2006: Take A Bow To The New Revolution
Irish housing statistics are notoriously vague. There is no accounting system for new housing units – rather, the CSO has to rely on figures from the ESB with regard to new connections, and from that…
An Phoblacht: Now Available as a Monthly Magazine
New-look An Phoblacht on sale now. With more pages, more photos and more colour, the 32-page July issue includes… Ballymurphy Massacre, 1971 – Prelude to Bloody Sunday? The Parachute Regiment shot dead 11 people over…
In What Distant Deeps Or Skies, Burnt The Fire Of Thine Eyes?
I gave up on Irish journalism about 18 months ago, just after the 2008 bank guarantee scheme and the December budget of that year. And while this has done my blood pressure no end of…
Women and Domestic Abuse in Ireland – Part 1
Abuse of Women in Conflict Zones It is only in the last couple of decades that the world has focused on the horrific levels of violence perpetrated against women in times of war. Although women…
A real opportunity exists to make the argument that a better Ireland is possible
The most important aspect of the most recent Irish Times poll was not the 32% for Labour, but the combined 45% for Fianna Fail and Fine Gael. Individual polls tell you very little, it’s the…
Scream Blue Murmur Interview and Tracks!
The performance troupe Scream Blue Murmur, formerly known as the Belfast Poets’ Touring Group, are pathbreakers in Ireland’s currently burgeoning live arts scene. Here they are interviewed by fellow poet and performer Dave Lordan of…
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- Notes for a Book on Money and the Irish State - The Marshall Aid Program April 2, 2016Ireland’s Economy: Radio Eireann talks on Ireland’s part in the Marshall Plan. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1949 [official/government publication] NLI: OPIE X 26.A Forward by the Taoiseach Mr. John A. Costello S.C., T.D. (pp.1-2) Since its inception European Economic Co-operation has done much towards restoring European economic solvency and has challenged the forces which have been […]Conor McCabe
- The Financial Crisis:What Have We Learnt? August 29, 2015I start teaching a level one (introduction level) module in UCD Monday Week on the Financial Crisis. As always, I’ll post what I can here to share it with activists and progressives. This is a short audio I’m putting up for the students to give them a sense of where the module is coming from. […]Conor McCabe
- Money in 35,000 Words or Less August 22, 2015I’ve been asked to write a short book on money. The manuscript is due in the end of April 2016. As with most things I do with political economy and education I’ll be posting stuff here as I go along. I just find it an interesting way of working through ideas, concepts and analysis. Anyway, […]Conor McCabe
- THE WRATH OF KANE: BANKING CRISES AND POLITICAL POWER January 30, 2015I’ll be writing more about this at the weekend but I think this is a good standalone clip from evidence to the banking inquiry given by Prof. Ed Kane on Wednesday 28 Jan 2015. He was asked by Deputy Pearse Doherty to elaborate on the statement below which was made in a paper that […]Conor McCabe