Posted in Irish journalism, Ireland on Jul 17th, 2011 No Comments »
Editorial: The march has begun
We are beginning to see a concerted workers response to the on-going attacks on our living standards. In the North the Con-Dem cutbacks have provoked strike action by public servants and delivered a clear mes- sage to Dave Cameron and his Tory boys that their agenda of increasing profits by striping […]
Posted in Irish journalism, Ireland on May 18th, 2011 No Comments »
Posted in Irish journalism, Ireland on May 9th, 2011 2 Comments »
Full story here.
Posted in Irish journalism, Banks on Apr 22nd, 2011 6 Comments »
Going through the proofs for Sins of the Father at the moment, and this editorial from the Irish Times popped up at me while I was checking the chapter on finance.
Got to love the cheerleaders for financial innovation, eh?
Posted in Irish property bubble, Irish journalism, Banks, Media on Apr 10th, 2011 1 Comment »
We know what the Irish banks’ bad loans are. They’re going to be about one per cent of their loan books.
I don’t see the figures or the conditions that would suggest to me that this is a Swedish situation.” (Brendan Keenan, 30 September 2008)
Posted in Irish journalism on Feb 23rd, 2011 2 Comments »
I didn’t see the debate last night, but its reassuring to know that the newspaper of Fine Gael feel that he didn’t fuck up too badly.
And I think this is the first time I’ve seen a hyperlink in the middle of an article, suggesting that they would really like people to visit the site. […]
Posted in Irish journalism on Feb 18th, 2011 8 Comments »
Owners of capital will stimulate the working class to buy more and more expensive goods, houses and technology, pushing them to take more and more expensive credits, until their debt becomes unbearable. The unpaid debt will lead to bankruptcy of banks, which will have to be nationalised, and the State will have to take the […]
Posted in Irish journalism, Irish housing on Jan 21st, 2011 1 Comment »
I broke my self-imposed ban on Irish media yesterday, mainly because of the events in the Dáil, but while I was scanning the Irish Times site I came across this article entitled: What’s a house worth now: does anyone know?
The blurb at the start said this:
With no national house price register available to help homeowners, […]
Posted in Irish journalism, Irish Economy on Nov 15th, 2010 No Comments »
I’ll be chairing this talk, which is on this Thursday in The Pearse Centre, 27 Pearse Street, Dublin 2, @ 8pm.
All welcome!
LECTURE SERIES
Ireland in Crisis: Challenging the Consensus
8.00pm, Thursday, 18 November 2010
Speakers: Mary Murphy (Department of Sociology, NUI Maynooth)
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Posted in fuckwits, Irish journalism on Nov 3rd, 2010 1 Comment »
This is what Angela Merkel told reporters after the European summit last week. “I think it is important to create a clear culture of stability in Europe. Europe makes us strong but Europe needs rules. It must be successful.”
I’m saying nothing. But does it not make you nervous to hear a German talk in […]
