Posted in Irish Society, Banks, Ireland on Jan 2nd, 2012 No Comments »
[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 […]
Posted in Irish Capitalism, Irish Society, Labour, Fine Gael on Dec 27th, 2011 No Comments »
Posted in Irish Capitalism, Irish Society, Irish Working Class on Dec 26th, 2011 1 Comment »
Vita Cortex workers’ blog here.
We would like to send Christmas greetings to all, especially those who have supported our cause over the last two weeks. It has been a great source of strength to us to know that people from all over Ireland and further afield are so supportive of our action.We remain committed to […]
Posted in Irish Society, Irish Working Class on Dec 20th, 2011 No Comments »
Posted in Irish Society, Ireland on Oct 26th, 2011 1 Comment »
Posted in Irish Society, Irish Economy, Ireland on Oct 23rd, 2011 No Comments »
Posted in Irish Society, Banks, Irish social history, Ireland on Oct 21st, 2011 No Comments »
Posted in events, Irish Society, Ireland on Oct 20th, 2011 No Comments »
Posted in Irish Society, Irish Economy, Irish social history, Irish History on Oct 19th, 2011 No Comments »
[Photo from Occupy Cork]
I’ll be speaking at Occupy Cork, South Mall, this Thursday at 4pm and 7.30pm.
The 4pm talk will be on housing in Ireland ;
The 730pm talk will be on banking in Ireland.
https://www.facebook.com/occupycork
Posted in Irish journalism, Irish Society on Oct 17th, 2011 No Comments »
The scare stories surrounding Irish credit unions are about banks grabbing that share of the lending market - nothing else.
Take this piece of logic from RTE yesterday:
Irish credit unions are significantly under-lent, with an average loan to asset ratio of 42.45%. This compares with an average loan-to-asset ratio of 177% in the banking sector, […]
