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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 – Rachel Mullen
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Ireland’s controlled and framed Constitutional Convention shows that democracy here is still a joke – Niall Crowley
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Claiming Our Future has set an agenda at its recent Croke Park meeting – Niall Crowley
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Our deluded ESRI (Village 2011)
In the heady days of 2005 with the economy roaring along and homeowners basking in the glow of ever-rising house prices, one institution went against the current and sounded a note of caution. In its Medium Term Review No. 10, regarded as a landmark publication, the ESRI (Economic and Social Research Institute) warned that “there are considerable dangers in the current situation: in particular the very high level of dependence on the building industry”. Nor were the risks purely domestic. “Global economic imbalances that, if anything, are growing in magnitude” also threatened.
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We’ve become used to the idea that a society based on loans is normal and sustainable – Paul Ferguson
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Social Partnership is corruption. Illegal corruption – in its various forms and expressions – is hardly a rarity in Irish society. This much we know. Perhaps less well understood are the legally permitted forms of corrupt behaviour that contribute to social and economic degradation and undermine democratic institutions and the legitimacy of the State.
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Pádraig Ó Ríordáin, a partner with Arthur Cox solicitors, is recent governments’ go-to lawyer for finance and now aviation. After a seven-month search by Fine Gael’s scrupulous Minister for Transport, Leo Varadkar, the appointment, over the becalmed Christmas period, of high-flyer Pádraig Ó Ríordáin to the role of chairman of the Dublin Airport Authority (DAA) […]