Posted in Ireland on Feb 7th, 2012 No Comments »
People’s News
latest issue containing articles on:
Permanent Austerity Treaty;
Final Nail in coffin of economy;
Re-writing history;
ETUC opposes austerity treaty;
A referendum now!;
Ireland - austerity’s poster child;
Leitrim’s gas could yield €30 billion profit for foreign company;
Merkel demands more ‘integration’;
German Green euro-bully at it still;
EU funds may plug gaps in member states’ military spending;
Varadkar changes his tune;
British campaign for EU […]
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Posted in History, Ireland on Jan 29th, 2012 No Comments »
This conference will take place on Thursday 22 and Friday 23 March 2012 in the seminar room of the National Library of Ireland, Kildare Street, Dublin 2. The cost to attend is €15 for the two days, which is payable on the day at registration. Those interested in attending, please contact Brian Casey: briancasey03@gmail.com in […]
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This is a comparison between the number of vacant housing units uncovered by last year’s census, compared with the social housing needs of the state on a county-by-county basis, as provided by the Dept. of the Environment.
The excel file of this information is here.
Below is a graph of the ratio of vacant housing to social […]
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Posted in fuckwits, Ireland on Jan 22nd, 2012 8 Comments »
So the next time politicians poo-poo the notion of a second bailout, perhaps we can remind them of the politically difficult but beneficial reforms the IMF has effected in this country, not to mention the rock-bottom interest rates charged on the bailout. The reforms however are far from complete, so a second bailout and further […]
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Djouce Meadow, Roundwood, Co. Wicklow, is on the Department of the Environment’s list of estates which are exempt from the household charge.
The exemption is because the estate is a category three or category four unfinished estate.
Despite this, despite the official recognition that the estate is at present unfit for purpose, the houses are not only […]
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Posted in Property, Ireland on Jan 19th, 2012 No Comments »
[Photo from Irish Examiner USA]
Marain Finnegan, chief economist with Sherry Fitzgerald, in today’s Irish Times:
Marian Finnegan, chief economist at Sherry FitzGerald, says people who can get a mortgage are in a much better position than people who bought a few years ago. “At the height of the market couples spent 45 per cent of their […]
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Posted in Banks, Ireland on Jan 19th, 2012 No Comments »
I’m working on a paper on NAMA at the moment, but I’ve been so tied up with other stuff that I’m only getting around to reading its 2010 annual report.
It’s incredible stuff.
NAMA actually tells us that a number of the loans transferred in Autumn 2010 have serious title, security and paperwork issues.
But […]
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Posted in Ireland on Jan 16th, 2012 2 Comments »
A series of lunchtime talks taking place each Thursday in March at 1pm in the Central Library, ILAC Centre. The talk is part of a series of readings and discussions on the topic of the Irish economy. More specifically on recent political / economic history - how we have reached the point we are now […]
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The following list is compiled from data taken from the Household Charge FAQs. It is of housing estates which fall into category three and four of unfinished housing estates, and as such are exempt from the household charge.
These are estates which are effectively failed estates, but in which people are forced […]
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