Politics
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Killing the way of life
National Traveller strategies are quietly binned as local authorities force private-rented accommodation on them
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The complex gender economy
Basically, tax, labour-market and benefit changes that hit low-income groups damage women hardest
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Coming Out
Enda Kenny should follow Éamon Gilmore and come out for marriage equality
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Sincerity please, Minister Shatter
The government’s commitment to the merged Equality and Rights Body will be clear even before it starts work
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By Emer ó Siochrú. The design and manner of introduction of the household charge exposed the mindset of the Department of Finance which believes that simplicity (€100 per dwelling owner with almost no exceptions) was more important than fairness for public compliance with a new tax. It appears Irish people are not that simple-minded and […]
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In the bath Economist.
The Irish economist doffed his Copeland suit and tie and dropped manfully if a little droopily into the bath. Why couldn’t everything be like irisheconomy.ie he wondered. Right and in writing and with lots of economists, even Colm McCarthy sometimes, and no other people. He loved Colm McCarthy. Big and gruff and no nonsense. All […]
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By Rachel Mullen. Minister Richard Bruton has unveiled his proposals for merging the existing five employment redress fora into one two-tiered structure. The blueprint for the new ‘Workplace Relations Service’ announced by the Minister aims for it to be ‘world class’. However, from an equality perspective, the proposals of the Minister seem to fall well […]