Politics
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Nineteen-thirteen was the year of the Dublin lockout and the courageous if unsuccessful struggle of Jim Larkin and the ITGWU against William Martin Murphy and the Dublin Chamber of Commerce. In this centenary year we are confronted with a different form of national lockout through high levels of unemployment, emigration and poverty. Niall Crowley examines […]
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Never free of controversy, the Minister for the Environment’s descent has accelerated from the beginning of 2012 – Michael Smith
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Unknowing knowns: the Seanad
Open it, don’t close it: it does good work, tempers the executive, could represent the marginalised and doesn’t even cost that much – Katherine Zappone
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Travellers’ rights can’t wait any longer – Brigid Quilligan
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The Budget must protect women
Equality must trump austerity – Orla O’Connor and Ann Irwin
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20% of Irish children are at risk of poverty and with no ‘child-proofing’ of policies cuts are falling on them disproportionately – Niamh Murray
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Forgotten economist advocated land tax, massive reduction in government and subventions and a basic income for all – Roger Garland