Politics
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For years vital Irish public services were consistently starved of funding at a time when taxes were being cut for electoral reasons. This is unfortunate but it has consequences which cannot be denied, whatever the ideology of the (non-)payer. Keeping water prices at an artificially low level leads to a vicious cycle of underfunded service-providers, […]
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Blueprint for the unemployed
‘Sharing in the recovery’ was the big theme in the work of the Irish National Organisation of the Unemployed (INOU) in 2015. Our members and affiliates, the users of our services, and participants in our regional Discussion Forums and training events were all clear that this recovery had yet to be experienced by many people […]
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I keep meaning to make a list of a certain category of politician: cataloguing those who wasted my time over the past 20 years, leading me on about seeking ways to extend fairness and justice to fathers, with dozens of whom I’ve sat over copious coffees while they took elaborate notes of the nature of […]
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Eoin Daly: Rights set undesirable limits on politics.
Michael Smith: Rights are desirable trumps on law and politics. -
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Taking housing from scandal to right
There are human rights to food, water, healthcare, a minimum standard of living, and housing. Despite western opposition they found their way into the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1966). They have wrongly been denied as rights in Ireland since O’Reilly v Limerick Corporation [1988]. This article is about the right to […]
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The water campaign is only the start: we’ll fight the weak incoming government on housing, precarious working conditions, abortion rights, and more
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With calls to review their policy that their TDs and senators should only take the average industrial wage (in Dublin because of higher living costs in the capital), Sinn Féin’s financing arrangements are again in the news. According to its press office, Sinn Féin staff have taken an average wage for as long as the […]