Posted in god's away on business on Oct 25th, 2012 No Comments »
The number of government-supported tax exiles in Ireland practically doubled in three years - from 5,803 in 2007, to 10,781 in 2010.
Which is nice…
From BreakingNews.ie, 19 February 2009:
Parliamentary question asked by Joe Higgins, 23 October 2012. Dáil question no. 145:
Posted in Bankrupt ireland, Bastards, Banks on Oct 23rd, 2012 1 Comment »
Peter Bofinger is someone I’ve been reading and reading about in the last couple of days as the trouble at mill continues with Ireland’s bank debt, Germany’s stance on legacy assets and Kenny’s rewriting of history to suggest that the Irish government didn’t unilaterally provide a blanket bank guarantee before the EU could scramble together an EU wide solution […]
Posted in god's away on business on Oct 19th, 2012 No Comments »
Posted in god's away on business, Irish Capitalism, Ireland on Oct 14th, 2012 6 Comments »
Posted in Irish Capitalism on Oct 14th, 2012 No Comments »
Posted in Bankrupt ireland on Oct 11th, 2012 No Comments »
Just to announce an exciting new Dublin Opinion competition open to everyone who thinks they can provide an answer. A smashing Argos cutlery set (see picture of the sparkling lovelies above) will go to the first person who can come up with an alternative to the concept of lobbying to explain how power and political […]
Posted in Banks on Oct 11th, 2012 No Comments »
It’s one thing for the Irish monied class to say that the ECB forced them into the 2008 bank guarantee, it’s another for progressives/leftists to fall for it. From Der SpiegEe, 2 October 2008:
“Mention of the plan infuriated many across the EU who feel that the action will unfairly draw money away from other […]
Posted in Media on Oct 7th, 2012 No Comments »
The Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) on 03/10/2012 announced that Channel 4’s “Bigger Fatter Gypsier” billboard advertising campaign was irresponsible; endorsed prejudice against Gypsies and Travellers; was guilty of depicting a child in a sexualised way; and was likely to have caused mental and moral harm to children.
The Irish Traveller Movement in Britain welcomes this ground-breaking […]
Posted in Irish social history on Oct 7th, 2012 1 Comment »
Posted in Irish social history, Irish Working Class on Oct 4th, 2012 No Comments »
I’m doing up a piece on Gombeenism for Rabble at the moment and am re-reading this article as part of it.
In it, Higgins and Gibbon explain quite clearly the class nature of farm size and cattle production in Ireland in the nineteenth and twentieth century. I use a graph of this system in talks I […]
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