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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]