The need for austerity in economies with debt overhangs like Ireland’s has not been disproved by the recent study – Constantin Gurdgiev (interloper)
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The profile of Catherine Day in the April-May edition should have acknowledged the work of ENDS in establishing that she was blocking some environmental measures. The interview with Bunker Roy should have acknowledged that Sam McManus and Marcelo Biglia travelled to India with support from the Simon Cumbers Media Fund. The leader of North Korea […]
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Resigned Lord Laird’s symbiotic relationsip with the Sindo over the years promoted some regressive causes THE political demise of Ulster Unionist, Lord Laird, who has lost the party whip after being stung by the Daily Telegraph/ BBC Panorama in the latest ‘cash foraccess’ scandal, may not be as shocking to those who have observed, and […]
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28 — villageJune – July 2013THe Iona Institute has recently been accused of deliberately misrepre-senting research, conducted by Child Trends, in its submission to the Constitutional Convention. senator david Norris raised the issue in the seanad and has requested an inquiry. In response david Quinn authored a blog post on Iona’s website defending the use […]
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33real reform of our system of govern-ment will not be achieved by abolishing the seanad. senator Feargal Quinn and I, along with colleagues from the seanad reform Group*, believe that the public should be presented with an alternative to the government’s near-sighted approach of ‘abolition or retention’. The focus of public debate has now shifted […]
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34 — villageJune – July 2013politicsdegrow – emphasise the collective, the simple and the environmental!The solution 35THe crisis in Ireland is just the latest, though the worst, of a series of boom and bust cycles since independence that have marked the history of the frst Irish republic, such as it is. The crisis is an […]
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35THe crisis in Ireland is just the latest, though the worst, of a series of boom and bust cycles since independence that have marked the history of the frst Irish republic, such as it is. The crisis is an outcome of global neoliberalism, but also of the dysfunctional nature of our jaded political system. economic […]
