Posted in Irish Capitalism, Irish Society, Irish History on Feb 4th, 2012 No Comments »
In October 2011 Pat Rabbtte gave out thirteen licenses to twelve companies (press release here). The amount of blocks left around Ireland can be seen in this PDF map here, and the way it is done in the UK and other countries is explained in this SIPTU document from last year, available here (see pages […]
Posted in Irish Capitalism, Irish Society, Banks on Jan 29th, 2012 No Comments »
This is a drawing of the wallchart I used during the talk I gave at yesterday’s Unlock Nama demonstration.
Posted in Irish Society, Irish History, Property, Ireland on Jan 23rd, 2012 No Comments »
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 […]
Posted in Irish Society, Banks, Fine Gael, Ireland on Jan 18th, 2012 No Comments »
Posted in Irish Society, Irish housing, Property, Ireland on Jan 15th, 2012 No Comments »
[Photo from Research Design Group]
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 […]
Posted in Education, Irish Society, Irish Economy, Irish social history, Irish Labour History on Jan 13th, 2012 5 Comments »
[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 […]
Posted in Education, Irish Society on Jan 10th, 2012 2 Comments »
To me it’s essential that you start where people are. But if you’re going to start where they are and they don’t change, then there’s no point in starting because you’re not going anywhere.
So while I insist on starting where people are, that’s the only place they could start. I can start somewhere else. […]
Posted in Education, Irish Society, Irish Economy, Irish social history, Irish Labour History on Jan 6th, 2012 No Comments »
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 […]
Posted in Irish Society, Banks on Jan 3rd, 2012 No Comments »
Posted in Irish Society, Irish social history, Irish History, Irish Labour History on Jan 3rd, 2012 7 Comments »
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 […]
