If the age of the youngest child for eligibility is to be reduced further we must get improvements in childcare and training, and abolition of the cohabitation prohibition for one-parent workers
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and class-based cuts to education, an engine for equality, subvert other rights and goods for the most vulnerable
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Inequality’s engine
Get rid of, or disincentivise, self-justifying, nepotistic private schools
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Educating educators
Self-awareness and analysis of problems and best international solutions needed, at secondary level
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Murphy uncelebrated
Lockout is enshrined in Australia’s principal industrial law, the Fair Work Act 2009
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Cann-do pessimist
He sees prospects for the left as never better, and never worse
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Comm[dis]unity
End to north-south meetings means failure to learn from other group’s mistakes and successes
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Dublindictment
Dublin city centre is a mess
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Emasculated banking inquiry
Prosecutions more important than another inquiry
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Irregulation
The dysfunctional regime at the Financial Regulator means the outcome of complaints is secret unless there is a sanction
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Few in Ireland care or notice when investigation is scuppered
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Shell and OSSL dispute whether inducements were given to Gardaí and named individuals
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GE quietly avoids Irish tax and anti-bullying standards
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Dáil and local government must embrace equality, sustainability, accountability, participation, and solidarity
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Darwinism and the Seanad
A failure – or in this instance refusal – to adapt can lead to extinction
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Third-level education founders
Centralisation, budgetary pressures, politicisation, elitism, old-fashioned non-practical subject-specific, ivory-tower teaching and lack of academic freedom and competition undermine our creativity and international standing
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Austerity makes us sick
It doesn’t work because it reduces growth, increases unemployment and inequality and reduces the protection against personal economic shocks and bad health
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Still burning
Alexander Cockburn, a contrarian who died last year, was the Irish-produced journalist with the best prose