From today’s Irish Times (I am one of the signatories) Wanted: emergency budget Sir, – It is now clear that austerity policies are not working. The domestic economy will remain recession this year. The Government has accepted that employment, consumer spending and investment will fall again. We are experiencing a worrying rise in income inequality, [...]
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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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If you watch one thing this week? More on this fabulous European campaign and the organisations behind it. My experience in Ireland has been that many lesbians are involved in work in the area of domestic violence but refuse to work on or acknowledge domestic violence in same sex relationships. But no all lesbians want [...]
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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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As the voices of accountability and concern are silenced under the fog of austerity, the Labour Party stand silently by. SAFE Ireland who support the development of services to women and children affected by domestic violence, count and document the numbers using the services and analyse the responses and need, lost their core funding and [...]
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Further to the publication of the Prison Visiting Committee reports 2010 last week, the Minister for Justice and Law Reform answered questions on the matter in the Dáil yesterday. Deputies Clare Daly (Socialist Party) and Jonathan O’Brien (Sinn Fein) raised matters arising during the Topical issues time (a new procedure in the Dáil to raise… [...]
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All together now. I wish I meant to be so humorous. The weeks before a budget divide and scare people and cause huge hatred and myth making in the media and amongst the general public. Some people have nobody to fly kites for them or stop the flight path. Last week Eamon Gilmore said that [...]
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It is with regret that this committee notes a distinct shift from the ethos on which the success of Dochas was built and the committee express concerns over future direction of the prison. Dochas Prison Visiting Committee Report I have visited the Dochas Centre (in a personal/unpaid capacity) on a number of occasions over the [...]
The stuff to give Labour and Fine Gael backbenchers bad dreams. Another thought is how rarely we see older women in the media.
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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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