The massive opposition across the State to the Household Tax has featured prominently in the media in recent days. Over the next while, the Mahon Tribunal Report that will feature strongest. What should not be lost sight of is that there is a strong connection between the two issues. The Mahon Tribunal at first glance [...]
Comment: The Mahon Tribunal exposes endemic corruption that existed in Irish politics
On March - 27 - 2012
Press Statement: Majority in society pay massive price for corruption and dishonesty
On March - 23 - 2012
Joe Higgins Press Statement on the Mahon Report: “The report of the Mahon Tribunal is a damning indictment of the corrupt nexus beween developers and establishment politicians especially from Fine Fail. It will serve to remind people of the scandalous rezonings and related bribery that came to light 15 years ago and the disastrous effects [...]
Comment: Government must be held accountable for blackmail clause
On March - 10 - 2012
‘The European train will be leaving the station on January 1, 2013 and the Irish people should be on board.’ So declared Taoiseach Enda Kenny in the Dail on Wednesday morning in response to a question of mine relating to the Referendum on the EU Fiscal Compact which the government has been obliged to call. [...]
Video: Ag troid i gcoinne an Chonradh Deine
On March - 10 - 2012
The title of this video is ‘Joe Higgins tackles Government on Austerity Treaty’ All Dail proceeding were taken through Irish on the morning of Wednesday 7th March. Joe’s column this week covers the same topic if you require an English explanation of the debate. Deir cinnlínte i nuachtáin na maidne go bhfuil an Stát chun [...]
Comment: Belmayne residents victims of speculator’s greed
On March - 3 - 2012
It might be expected that when it is brought to the attention of the leader of this State that a group of citizens is being treated shabbily by public or private agencies, or both, with dire consequences for their lives and welfare, he would attempt to get to the heart of the issue and find [...]
Comment: Privatisations will only serve to deepen economic crisis
On February - 25 - 2012
The decision by the government to sell off €3 billion worth of state assets is arguably the most economically and socially criminal of the many criminal policies implemented in this State over the past three years in the interest of salvaging the financial system in Europe from the consequences of the speculative activities of its [...]
Video: Joe Higgins questions Taoiseach over visit of Chinese Vice-President
On February - 22 - 2012
Dr. Liu Xiaobo is in his third year of an 11 year sentence in China. His crime was to write a charter seeking democracy, freedom of speech and religion and an independent judiciary. Over Christmas, Chen Xi was sentenced to ten years in jail in south-west China for the crime of writing articles on the [...]
