Launched today a new campaigning network of local and global justice organisations, Debt Justice Action. Next week we via our government are paying €1.25 billion in the latest payment of an unsecured Anglo bond. This will be followed by numerous other payments. Repayments not of home loans or debts that the general public ran up [...]
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Today is the World Day of Peace, a Catholic celebration. Each year it is traditional for the Taoiseach to issue a statement on the day in response to the annual statement issued by the Pope. Frostiness or not in the relations between Ireland and the Vatican, Enda Kenny issued a statement this morning and indeed [...]
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A wheelchair user has won a Equal Status case against Bus Eireann. Karol Doherty submitted that the company should provide busses that were wheelchair accessible and that he should not have ascend the steps of the bus ‘on his bum’ or be carried up by a driver. Bus Eireann thought carrying up the steps or [...]
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So we have a pause… It may well be a permanent pause. However in case it isn’t and because there is so much reform needed in this area and because we have learnt that so many TD’s are so interested in the area of Disability (thank you) lets start a real discussion on this area. [...]
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Miracles and instant cures from disability on offer from Irish Government. Main-streaming will eradicate severe and profound disabilities. Employers will suddenly offer jobs to everyone even if they can’t work. Cutting disability allowance for young people brings them into line with their non disabled peers. These deductions can be made by the defence strategy by [...]
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Labour backbenchers (when not appearing on all TV/Radio programmes whilst their FG counterparts hide in the bushes) are issuing pre budget leaflets like this. This is from Ciaran Lynch TD. If you see any other leaflets over the weekend let me know. Nothing about equality there… all about hard choices and long term approaches. In [...]
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Towards a Second Republic: Irish Politics after the Celtic Tiger, by Peadar Kirby and Mary P. Murphy was published earlier this month and is surely to become a key text for students of Irish Politics and the broader social sciences. The book initially examines the impact of the Celtic Tiger both it’s development and operation [...]
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Making Ireland Home is a video launched this week from members of MPower which is the Youth Empowerment Project started by Migrant Rights Centre Ireland. Those taking part in the video were all born outside Ireland and have made Ireland their home. One might wonder why when you listen to some of their experiences of [...]
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- Ireland has the second highest number of millionaires in the EU. – The 300 richest people in Ireland are worth close to €50bn. – Excluding housing values the top 1% control 34% of Ireland’s wealth. – The government plans to cut expenditure, services and infrastructure twice as much as they plan to raise in [...]
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The results of the first national major study into the lives of older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people are launched today. Visible Lives surveyed 144 people and interviewed 36 people in depth – all were over 55 and from the Republic of Ireland. The study was commissioned by GLEN, funded by Age and Opportunity [...]
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