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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 […]