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CPOI - Sun Feb 12, 2012 22:33 The February issue of Socialist Voice is out now. Read it on the Socialist Voice site, or as a pdf.
Contents:
Economic policy is ?too important? for voters to have a say
Household charges and water charges
Heaven on Millionaires? Row
Explaining work-place sit-ins
Progress of the Trade Union Left Forum
Practise what you preach!
The drumbeat of war with Iran
Spring revolution, or [...]
Conor McCabe - Fri Feb 10, 2012 10:11 In an interview last year with the online journal, Proactive Investors, Tony O’Reilly Jnr did a pretty good job of explaining the business model of Irish middleman capitalism, although I doubt that was his intention.
The link to the recording is here, but the edited clip itself is at the end of the post.
The extract in [...]
Michael Taft - Thu Feb 09, 2012 16:00 The Finance Bill running to nearly 300 pages is out. There’s the odd sliver of good news - the 5 percent levy on the sheltered income from legacy property tax relief for those earning over ?100,000, for instance. Otherwise, it’s a pretty grim affair, putting into effect a regressive budget.
But there are little stories that [...]
Aiden Lloyd - Thu Feb 09, 2012 13:19 As we approach the centenary of the Republic’s Proclamation in a state of economic chaos and democratic underdevelopment will we be remembered for our failures rather than our resolution?
On the face of what we know, the Irish economic crisis will trigger similar events to some of our previous catastrophes in the 19th and 20th centuries. [...]
John Ross - Wed Feb 08, 2012 14:08 With the European Union (EU) heading into a double dip recession, even before the peak level of GDP of the previous business cycle has been regained (Figure 1), it is evident that the solutions adopted to deal with Europe’s economic crisis have failed. But the focus of financial markets on Greece’s debt crisis should not [...]
Conor McCabe - Mon Feb 06, 2012 17:47 With the IFSC now central to the government’s growth plans, some figures which may be of interest.
The only figure I can find for how much corporation tax the IFSC contributed is the figure for 2010.
it’s ?1.4 billion - Dept. of the Taoiseach last July, ( citing a private report, not Revenue, which is interesting in [...]
Donagh - Mon Feb 06, 2012 17:33 ‘The Greek debt workout will establish a benchmark for sovereign debt haircuts across the Eurozone‘
I tried to reduce the size of this quote, but I kept on leaving important stuff out. The whole article is a must read, particular the point made earlier that the negotiations being finalised now between the ECB and private bond [...]
Michael Taft - Mon Feb 06, 2012 12:33 The Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation Richard Bruton is setting a target of 100,000 net new jobs by 2016 on the eve of the Government’s launch of the Action Plan on Jobs. Does this mean that the Action Plan will create 100,000 net new jobs by 2016? No. Does this mean that without the Action [...]
Paula Geraghty - Mon Feb 06, 2012 10:15 Protest at cuts in small rural schools Dublin, 1st February 2012
Hundreds of teachers, parents and school children came from all over Ireland to protest at Minister Ruairí Quinn’s proposed cuts to small schools in Dublin when the Dáil was debating the bill.
Therese Caherty - Mon Feb 06, 2012 07:00 Today marks the date in 1992 when the parents of a pregnant 14-year-old took their daughter to England for an abortion. She had been raped by a friend of the family. That same day in the High Court, Mr Justice Declan Costello issued a temporary injunction to prevent the abortion. Only hours after they had [...] |
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