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MEMORANDUM
MEMORANDUM
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MEMORANDUM
Over coming months, Village will outline a suitable platform for a radical new movement on the LeftMEMORANDUMTo: New Left GovernmentFrom: Tom HealyDate: March 2016Re.: Priorities to improve the economy and living conditions
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21% of Irish workers are low-paid.
By Sinéad Pentony. Low pay is endemic and entrenched in the Irish economy, and the situation for many low paid workers can only be described as grim. The government is setting up a Low Pay Commission and introducing a range of legislative changes to address a number of issues relating to low pay. Will it […]
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Wasting anger.
By Michael Smith. Colm McCarthy, Ireland’s most unangry man, has stated portentously if unoriginally that “anger is not a policy”. He likes to reach smugly for a metaphorical spreadsheet that emits efficacious public policy to him alone, at his click. He’s right of course. Always right! The Roman stoic philosopher Seneca agreed with him: anger […]
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How optimism lifted.
In the Sticks by Shirley Clerkin. There was optimism and all the babies slept peacefully in their beds among the quiet, velveteen hills. The piano played cheerful melodies, tinkling beads on a necklace out the open windows to the birds that flitted contentedly on the air. Plans were gone over, knitting clacked, beds were dug, […]
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Back to school.
By Tony Lowes. The environment is the enemy of jobs”. That’s what my lad recently reported was the universal belief of all those in his Leaving Cert ‘Civic, Social and Political Education’ (CSPE) class in our west cork community school. To be honest, it’s what most people think in modern Ireland. To object to developments […]
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Economics has yielded to politics.
By Constantin Gurdgiev. January’s IMF review of the economic situation in Ireland rained a heavy dose of icy water over the overheating Government spin machine, and much of the IMF concerns centre around exactly the same themes that were highlighted in these very pages last month. Top of the IMF worries list is growth. Budget […]
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2ºC.
By Sadhbh O’Neill. In 2009, signatories to the UNFCCC met to agree new legally binding greenhouse-gas emission targets. The outcome, known as the Copenhagen Accord, singularly failed to meet high expectations for a legally-binding agreement but the Accord did specify for the first time that the objective of the international community was to “hold the […]
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By Anthony Coughlan. The growth in the number of States in the world is one of the most remarkable features of our time, though it is not often commented on. The United Nations had 51 Member States when it was established in 1945. It had 193 at the last count – a near fourfold increase […]
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Village March out Now
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By Kevin Leyden and Patrick Collins. Ireland appears to be slowly re-emerging from its recent economic troubles and many have offered new ideas about our future. For us, this will involve considering the importance of two interconnected phenomena: the experiential economy and place-making. Both are about quality of life. We argue that focusing on quality […]
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By Michael Smith. Newly elected Syriza has told voters it will end the era of austerity in Greece (and beyond). It has pledged to stop what its 40-year-old leader, Alexis Tsipras, has called the “fiscal waterboarding” policies that have turned Greece into a debt colony. It is the first time in more than 40 years […]
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Climbdown.
By Michael Smith. Climate change is the biggest issue of our age. It seems likely to leave a legacy for future generations that will mean our epoch will be remembered primarily for its stupidity and spendthrift environmental profligacy. It is generally accepted that to stabilise CO2 concentrations about 450ppm by 2050, which might avert runaway […]
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Duping our ‘cherished’ 16-year-olds .
By Niall Crowley. If Alex Fogarty was told one more time how mature he was he could really have claimed the right to violence. Alex, 15 years old we were told repeatedly, from the National Youth Council of Ireland was on the ‘Prime Time Debate’ on votes for 16-year-olds. He was up against Noel Howard […]
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Our top-heavy Arts Council.
By Kevin Kiely. The 1951 Arts Act established the Arts Council and charged it with stimulating public interest; with promoting knowledge, appreciation and practice; and with assisting in improving standards in the arts. It is a voluntary body of 12 members and a chair, appointed by the Minister for Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht for […]
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Decriminalise outdoor prostitution.
By Sarah Benson. Buying sex is not illegal in Ireland. Neither is selling sexual services. The law protects these transactions as agreements between consenting adults. Some activities associated with prostitution are outlawed, however, as public order offences. These include curb-crawling, soliciting in public, loitering in public places, brothel-keeping and living off immoral earnings. Until passage […]
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Media diversity delusion.
By Gerard Cunningham. The Bell Telephone Company was born out of the great communications revolution at the end of the 19th century, and dominated the American business landscape for a century, until it was broken up by the US Justice Department in 1984. In its place, the ‘Baby Bells’ were left to compete both with […]
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Meat causes flooding.
By Cathal O’Meara. Landscapes that support extensive meat and dairy farming are dramatically damaging our rivers and contributing to flooding in our towns and cities. Globally livestock accounts for 70% of all our agricultural landscapes and contributes more greenhouse gasses (18%) than the entire transport sector (12%). However, our livestock-dominated landscapes are having their most […]