[This is the proposal for the pilot course as it stands today - hoping to refine and refocus it over the coming weeks, but this is the base of it here.
If the pilot course is successful, and there is sufficient interest within the organised trade union movement to continue with the course, then I’d see […]
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The hugely impartial Frances Ruane of the ESRI was a former non-executive director of Depfa Bank, which was based in the IFSC and which collapsed in 2008, costing the German taxpayer, via its forced ownership of Hypo Real Estate, well over 100 billion euro. The ‘hands-off’ regulation of the IFSC was key to Depfa’s business […]
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Posted in Ireland on Jan 11th, 2012 No Comments »
Another photo from the old hard drive I’ve been going through.
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Posted in Ireland on Jan 10th, 2012 5 Comments »
It’s true, the Irish are unique when it comes to buying property.
that’s why, apart from the US, the UK, Australia, France and Denmark (among others not charted above such as Spain) , the Irish were the only people on the planet to have an asset speculative bubble.
It’s because we’re mad for the aul craic, […]
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This guy’s a fucking moron.
I’m doing some research on video clips relating to the crisis, and just came across this beauty from 23 September 2010 - one month before the ECB/IMF bailout - where Denis O’Brien tells Bloomberg that Ireland is in recovery, that it has done everything right, and that Irish banks are […]
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I brought this up on Facebook - the idea of a course on Irish political economy - and I asked what questions would people like to see such a course address. Here are some of them - please feel free to add to this list in the comments below:
… Did Ireland benefit from being in […]
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This is something I’m thinking of running some time this year. All very rough at the moment but I’ll put up my notes on designing the course as I work through it, and sure see what happens.
I think something like this is needed. However, in order to make it viable, it needs to have a […]
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[Photo from Cork City Community Centre Facebook page]
From the Cork Evening Echo:
Protestors linked to the occupy cork group claim to have taken control of a vacant building in the city centre.
The group claims the three-storey building on Oliver Plunkett street, and is therefore taxpayers’ property. The want to use the building for community services such […]
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Posted in EU, Banks, Ireland on Dec 28th, 2011 No Comments »
