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36 — villageJune – July 2013present, and convince people of, viable alterna-tives which together constitute degrowth, and to outline realistic strategies to get there. These alternatives will involve a shift from jobs that produce ‘goods’ for consumption to jobs that maintain goods for use – a move away from capi-talism which sees capital, and its […]
4 — villageJune – July 2013leadervIllaGe is driven by an egalitarian approach to rights. It is not impressed with assertions of rights to property by those with lots of it for example, or noisy campaigns against property taxes, at least fair ones, or against capital acquisitions tax, septic tank charges and the likes. It treats […]
14 — villageJune – July 2013Shatheadvillager likes shatter. well likes is a little strong. likes more than any other Fine Gael member of government, apart from Frances Fitzgerald, per-haps. or respects. anyone that annoys the Garda, the legal profession and judges, inspires a debate on their respective contributions to the common good and then wins […]
18 — villageJune – July 2013THe oeCd recently released an update of its income inequality sta-tistics. This provides a high-level analysis of income inequality across 33 oeCd countries for the frst three years of the crisis, up to the end of 2010. while important, the data used are 3-4 years old and a lot has […]
20 — villageJune – July 2013THe North’s High Court has quashed an order by regional development Minister, danny Kennedy, to proceed with construction of two parts of the a5 dual-carriageway. This is the largest planning-re-lated decision ever overturned by a court in the North. The grounds were that the department of regional development had failed […]
21THe journey from “Croke Park” to “Haddington road” has been bumpy for public-sector management or public-sec-tor unions. Pay and working hours have been the main focus. Issues of gender equality have not received much attention.This is shameful given that the public sector is a major employer of women. In 2010 the edu-cation and health sectors […]
25oNe in fve women in Ireland is abused by a current or former husband, partner or boyfriend, at some stage in their lifetime. since 1996 there have been 190 women murdered in the republic of Ireland, of whom 74 were murdered by a partner or ex-partner. In all of the resolved cases, 99% of perpetrators […]