Posted in Irish journalism, financialization, irish political economy, bank inquiry, Banks, Irish Economy, Irish History, Irish social history, Irish housing, Ireland on Jan 23rd, 2015 No Comments »
Shadows never go away.
Might be you don’t see them,
but they’re always clinging to your heels.” A Song of Ice and Fire
When I was a child in primary school my way of dealing with Irish class was to find a word in the question that matched a word in the text and hope for the […]
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Newspaper man reveals in shocking detail that he knows nothing about class:
“AB voters
In class terms, Fine Gael is away out in front among the better-off AB voters, where it is on 46 per cent. It is also the biggest party among middle-class C1 voters, where it gets 33 per cent, and among farmers, where […]
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Posted in Irish journalism on Jan 10th, 2013 3 Comments »
Aengus Mac Grianna slip-up live on television… by maynooth2008
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Posted in Irish journalism on Mar 13th, 2012 No Comments »
The latest issue of LookLeft is available at Easons stores island-wide and selected independent shops. LookLeft is now 40 pages, proving that growth is possible even in an age of austerity.
Highlights include:
* Ireland’s poll tax – building a mass non-payment campaign against the household charge
* Class Dismissed – Conor McCabe on the need for class […]
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Posted in Irish journalism on Feb 10th, 2012 No Comments »
For my sins I went onto the Irish Times website this morning - and front and centre was an article by Conor Pope, the essence of which said that now is a good time to buy a house in Ireland.
Here’s a collection of quotes from the Irish Times over the past five years, from articles […]
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LookLeft 9 – in the shops tomorrow – only €2 - includes;
Reports on student protests, Occupy Dame Street, turf wars in Kildare, AFA action against Nick Griffin, defending health services, the community fight against drugs, Occupy Wall Street, the sex industry, doctors in El Salvador, Ship to Gaza, turmoil in Egypt, the Greek Communist Party […]
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The scare stories surrounding Irish credit unions are about banks grabbing that share of the lending market - nothing else.
Take this piece of logic from RTE yesterday:
Irish credit unions are significantly under-lent, with an average loan to asset ratio of 42.45%. This compares with an average loan-to-asset ratio of 177% in the banking sector, […]
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