Posted in Ireland, Politics on May 28th, 2009 8 Comments »
The quote below is taken from wilklnott.ie
“Michael O’Brien, former councillor and Mayor of Clonmel attended the RTÉ programme Questions and Answers on 25 May 2009 and, after Minister Noel Dempsey, the sponsoring minister of the Ryan Commission report in to Child Abuse allegations spoke, Mr O’Brien spoke to the minister and to the panel.”
From the […]
Posted in Ireland on May 27th, 2009 No Comments »
JC Skinner of Skinflicks has set up a petition to get the government to commemorate the United Irishmen and the rising of 1798 properly.
The way to do this, he says, is to take away one of the bank holidays that are virtually back to back, the May Day bank holiday and the one that comes […]
Posted in Irish Marxism, Marx, Irish Labour History, Media, politics/Ireland on May 25th, 2009 No Comments »
Below is the first of four programmes on various left-wing publications in Ireland in the 1960s to 1980s. This one discusses the Irish People, which was the newspaper of Official Sinn Féin, later Sinn Féin the Workers Party, later The Workers Party.
On the panel are Dr. Brian Hanley, Queens University, Padraig Yeates, former editor […]
Posted in fuckwits, Fine Gael on May 22nd, 2009 10 Comments »
Geoge Lee has absolutely no economic ideas to offer this country. Absolutely none.
The man has a list of bloomers to his name, but my favourite at the moment is his statement that we need to get the social partners talking together.
What, something like social partnership, George?
Something that was first introduced to this country in […]
Posted in dublin, Ireland on May 21st, 2009 5 Comments »
No he hablado español en el año pasado, y estoy oxidado. Yo quiero estudiar y hablar español mucho más… pero es un poco difícil quando leo y hablo inglés todos los días. No tengo excusas. Soy perezoso.
Pues… I have been a bit busy I suppose. Apart from the ongoing examination of Irish class relations […]
Posted in fuckwits, Fine Gael on May 20th, 2009 9 Comments »
“They keep talking about offering an alternative to “working people”. But we’re all working people. Well, except for the unemployed, and I presume they want to offer them an alternative too. What we are is a deeply conservative people with broad agreement on where we want to go, if slightly different views on how to […]
Posted in fuckwits, Irish journalism, Irish Economy on May 19th, 2009 12 Comments »
the global gloom is overdone. Investor sentiment internationally has over-reacted to America’s woes. Moreover, the US policy response to the slowdown has been unprecedented, both in its speed and its magnitude. Outside the US, the rest of the global economy is enjoying one of its strongest periods of economic expansion ever. As most of this […]
Posted in Irish journalism, RTE on May 17th, 2009 2 Comments »
I know this story is old at this stage - I’ve only come across it now as I’ve been out of the loop for a bit alright - but, my God, try this on the BBC, Channel 4, CNBC, or even Fox, and see what would happen.
Pat: If you had won the money, what […]
Posted in Irish Economy, Irish History on May 16th, 2009 No Comments »
chapters one to three of the 1982 Telesis Report into Irish industrial policy.
The file can be downloaded here.
Enjoy.
Open publication - Free publishing - More telesis
Posted in Irish Economy, Irish History, Ireland on May 16th, 2009 No Comments »
I’ve already talked about the Telesis report here, while Michael Taft references it frequently in his posts. Below is a copy of the summary report. I should have the body of the report up by tomorrow.
The summary can be downloaded here.
Enjoy.
Open publication - Free publishing - More telesis
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