Thanks purely to the hard efforts over the years of parents of children with autism, some progress had been made in the creation of schools devoted purely to the teaching of children who suffer from the condition. The method used to teach the children, Applied Behavioral Analysis or ABA, is internationally recognised as the most [...]
Let them eat cake, not the crumbs off the table…
On August - 25 - 2010
Business and media circles are agog at “the most significant development in philanthropy” for many decades. Forty US based billionaires have pledged to give half of their wealth to “charity” while living or on their death. The “Giving Pledge” was initiated by two men said to be the richest in the world, Bill Gates founder [...]
Sale of the state’s “family silver” will be a nightmare for ordinary people
On August - 24 - 2010
All citizens who value the need for publicly owned vital infrastructure would have experienced a shudder of fearful anticipation last month when the Minister for Finance established a Review Group on State Assets and Liabilities. The Department of Finance Press brief’s opening sentence seemed innocuous enough, stating that the group would “provide advice on the [...]
While “The World” sails into Dublin, workers left to drown in economic crisis
On August - 13 - 2010
Last week, an imposing ship dropped anchor in Dublin Bay. This was not your typical luxury liner where you can find, interspersed among the middling rich who cruise regularly, pensioners and ordinary working people. Of course, they would have saved for years to be able to afford a mere week, or maybe even two, sailing [...]
Will we see a clone of the mummified political corpse of the PDs with rumoured new party?
On August - 9 - 2010
It’s a measure of the stagnation of establishment politics in this State that some media circles are reacting with frissons of excitement to rumours that former Progressive Democrat Leader Michael McDowell might form a new political party. Their excitement gives way to breathlessness at a suggestion that McDowell might be joined in such a venture [...]
Is “human nature” a barrier to socialism?
On August - 6 - 2010
A very good article by Canyon Lalama, a member of Socialist Alternative, the sister organisation of the Socialist Party in the United States. The world is a mess. War, poverty, and oppression are now part of the daily lives of billions round the globe. Even during the last boom 80% of the world’s population – [...]
