Opinion

It’s time to legislate for abortion in Ireland to save women’s lives, for rape victims and where the foetus is already dead – Ivana Bacik 

Niall Crowley Minister Jimmy Deenihan, speaking recently in the Seanad, identified the opportunities in the coming decade of multiple commemorations. These included the possibly contradictory potentials “to dedicate ourselves to an enhanced understanding of modern history” and to “play a major role in bringing all on this island closer together”. Inevitably though somewhat jadingly, he […]

However one interprets the core constraints of the Fiscal Compact Treaty  (officially cosily known as the Treaty on Stability, Coordination and Governance in the Economic and Monetary Union), several facts are indisputable.   Firstly, the new treaty will restrict the scope for future exchequer deficits. This has prompted the ‘No’ side of the referendum campaigns […]

While the Green Party was in government it had a number of redline issues: key among them were the refusal to contemplate a flat rate property tax for the primary residence and a resistance to any movement towards the privatisation of water. We now know that the government has made a dog’s dinner of the […]

Where is the community sector when it is needed? The sector should provide opportunities for people to mobilise on inequality and poverty, and be a valuable source of new ideas and alternatives. This is a sector that needs to be active in the face of austerity, economic recession and political unresponsiveness. Yet, outside of a […]

Deficiencies in the new Human Rights and Equality Commission – Niall Crowley