Posted in Marx on Jun 29th, 2010 3 Comments »
David McWilliams thinks that Ireland’s problems were caused by the gombeen men.
Fintan O’Toole disagrees. He thinks it was the cute hoors.
David Harvey has a slightly different take on what was happening in the worlds of business and finance while McWilliams and O’Toole were flicking through their Carleton for metaphors and similes.
Enjoy.
Posted in Irish Middle Class, Irish social history, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Jun 27th, 2010 No Comments »
Conference schedule and abstracts below. Conference registration form is here. A pdf of the conference schedule and abstracts is here.
Open publication - Free publishing - More conference
Posted in Wexford on Jun 26th, 2010 No Comments »
I’m going to have to bow out of Dublin Opinion for a while, and keep my head in the past for the next month or so. Sure see how it goes anyway.
Bye for now.
Posted in Irish property bubble, Irish Economy, Irish social history, Irish History on Jun 25th, 2010 3 Comments »
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 it extrapolates the amount of new units.
The CSO’s figures for the amount of mortgages sold is also somewhat oblique, as […]
Posted in Bastards, Banks on Jun 24th, 2010 No Comments »
I heard this morning on Morning Ireland that Frances Ruane of the ERSI said that one reason for its failure to highlight the serious problems in the Irish banking sector was due to them “lacking expertise in macro-economics”. It was also dependent upon, she went on, “material produced by the Central Bank and the Financial […]
Posted in Irish property bubble, Irish housing, Irish social history on Jun 24th, 2010 11 Comments »
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 good - it’s not the news that drives me mad, it’s the inane analysis - it also means that I […]
Posted in obituary on Jun 22nd, 2010 3 Comments »
a.k.a Chris Sievey.
Posted in Idle Thoughts on Jun 21st, 2010 No Comments »
Posted in Irish property bubble, Irish Economy, Irish housing, Irish social history on Jun 18th, 2010 9 Comments »
First of all, as always, the caveats.
This graph is based on dwellings in Irish towns of 1,500 people or more. The reason for that is because the Land Acts skewer home ownership as farms are both a home and a livelihood.
By removing farms from the picture, it’s possible to get a glimpse at house/apartment purchases […]
Posted in fuckwits, Fine Gael on Jun 17th, 2010 1 Comment »
(From RTE News, just after the result was announced:)
- So do you think this was an Dublin east coast / west coast thing?
- Oh, absolutely!
Beautiful.
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