Month: June 2007
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News from Planet Flat Earth
The always readable Richard Delevan has a bit of fun in his recent Sunday Tribune column, tweaking the noses of liberals and would-be radicals (or, at least, Fintan O’Toole and…
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Back to School For Everyone
School has just been let out for children and, on the electoral campus, for the Left. For children, it is a time for play, for the Left it is a…
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Clueless in Inflation Land
High inflation. Sanguine Government. Desperate Trade Unions. Indifferent Employers. Oh, and let’s not forget the citizens – they have an interest in all this. Does anyone know what to do…
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Plus Ca Change . . . and All That
Welcome to the new government, same as. . well, the old government. At least when it comes to the economy. Much commentary has focused on what the Greens got, didn’t…
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Do What You Have To – Just Don’t Do It
One can sympathise with John Gormley’s despair at the prospect of five more years of opposition, especially coming from someone of his political calibre. But coalition-forming and political alignments are…
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Commentary on Irish Political Economy by Michael Taft, researcher for SIPTU
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