In a week when a volcano erupted in Iceland and the ash cloud that resulted brought the headlines in the establishment media down to earth from the all pervasive, hyperbolic coverage of the visits to this state of the Queen of England and the President of the United States, it might be appropriate to deal [...]
Video: Leaders’ Questions – Taxi Industry
On May - 23 - 2011
Last night’s RTE special “Prime Time” programme on the taxi industry highlighted a number of shocking incidents of dangerous practices that would put the public at serious risk by a minority involved on the supply side of the taxi industry. It also highlighted shocking examples of outright corruption, involving, we presume and hope, a small [...]
Video: Europe Day speech in the Dáil
On May - 18 - 2011
In a speech marking Europe Day on 9 May in the Dáil, Joe Higgins TD points out the unreality of the contributions of the establishment parties in praising the European Union as a friend and ally while at the same time, the diktats of the EU, the ECB and the IMF are driving Ireland further [...]
Morgan Kelly’s diagnosis is broadly correct but his remedy is wanting
On May - 9 - 2011
Morgan Kelly deserves some credit for his consistent accuracy in anticipating and quantifying the scale of the debt burden being imposed primarily on working people and the unemployed in this country. He has done this fearlessly in the face of a general consensus of denial among the political and economic elite for whom the bail [...]
The manner in which a number of former employees of the local Friendly Call service, now trading under the name Indecare, has been disgraceful. In February, some seven paid employees were put on temporary lay off. Subsequently, a letter was sent in late March dismissing the workers, all women, on the basis that the project [...]
