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Dermot Morgan, 31 March 1952 – 28 February 1998

Posted in Ireland on Feb 28th, 2013 No Comments »

Feminist Economics Learning Circle - 27 February 2013

Posted in Irish Society, Irish Economy, Ireland on Feb 27th, 2013 No Comments »

These are the PDfs I’m drawing upon for today’s work - which for me is based around the issue of social reproduction.
A couple of articles I found handy:
‘Cuts Are A Feminist Issue’ by the Feminist Fightback Collective, an anti-capitalist collective based in East London. The article first appeared in Soundings, December 2011.

‘Affect, Race and […]

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The Live Register - Direct Provision

Posted in Irish Society, Ireland on Feb 21st, 2013 No Comments »

From Donal Higgins on twitter - Lots of talk in papers lately on Direct Provision of Asylum seekers. Here’s a show @Live_Reg did on that subject

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REITS and the Irish State

Posted in Irish Capitalism, Banks on Feb 20th, 2013 2 Comments »

The Irish State will make REITS legal in Ireland in April this year. And REITS will make it possible, albeit indirectly, to monetize distressed mortgages and repossessed homes.
Patrick Honohan - cuddly aul Honohan - is pushing for repossessions.
REITS are also seen as a way of ‘winding down’ NAMA. The vulture fund group, Blackstone, […]

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Economics As If People Really Mattered - Galway Learning Circle, 19 Feb-10 April. Introduction.

Posted in events, Economy, Banks on Feb 18th, 2013 1 Comment »

Economics as if People Really Mattered - Week One from conormccabe
[Update: slides from week one]
Myself and Vicky Donnelly of the Galway One World Centre are starting a series of workshops on Tuesday entitled, ‘Economics As If People Really Mattered,‘ and I thought I’d start posting material relating to it here.
The […]

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By Telling Us What They Think, They Are Only Trying To Fool Us

Posted in god's away on business, Irish Capitalism on Feb 17th, 2013 3 Comments »

You know, for a deal that was supposedly forced on us by dose dam Rupeans in de Easy Bee they’re doing a pretty good job of pulling the wool over our eyes and acting as if this was another stoke, another act of self-preservation, pulled by the Irish moneyed classes, same as the bank guarantee […]

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Denis O’Brien and Corporate Social Responsibility

Posted in Ireland on Feb 15th, 2013 No Comments »

Corporate Social Responsibility is a tricky one to define. There is no doubt that large companies and corporations can have considerable power within economies and societies and that this is particularly the case if the economy and the society is weak or weakened by a systemic shock. The ethos of CSR is supposed to temper […]

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Prof. Terrence McDonough on the Irish Promissory Note Deal - Galway 12 Feb 2013

Posted in Ireland on Feb 12th, 2013 2 Comments »

Audio recording of Prof. Terrence McDonough’s talk in Galway tonight, “What the !$%! just Happened? A Discussion on the Recent Debt Deal.” Thanks to Vicky Donnelly of Galway Debt Justice for organizing the event.
Prof. Mcdonough’s talk is also available on soundcloud, where it can be downloaded here.

Mcdonough12-02-13-talk by Conormccabe on Mixcloud

McdonoughQ&A-12-02-13 by Conormccabe on […]

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Selections from Finance Dublin Magazine, 1988

Posted in Irish Capitalism on Feb 11th, 2013 1 Comment »

Started moving all my files from home to UCD. Today it was the folders with material relating to IFSC, money and finance in Ireland. Just down from the office is a printer that also scans documents so i’m hoping to put up as much as I possibly can of the primary and secondary material that […]

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