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There is no greater telltale sign of an election in the offing than when a government starts pledging to give your own money back to you. The Fine Gael-Labour Coalition has promised no less than €3bn between this year’s budget and 2016 in extra spending and tax cuts. Commentators often decry ‘auction’ politics. However, without an […]
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Ronan Burtenshaw explores four of Ireland’s new anti-austerity organisations, asking where they came from and where they are going.
Ronan Burtenshaw on one hundred days of Greece’s SYRIZA government.
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How can a tax on the pension of a public sector worker earning just €15,000 be justified when the government plans to inject €8 billion and perhaps as up to €15 billion into the major banks without any idea of the scale of their toxic debt from bad property loans?