Month: April 2008
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The Red Herring Diet Plan
That ol’ red herring – Labour’s links with trade unions – is raising its head again. Kevin Rafter suggests the Party’s 21st Century Commission (an internal review body) should: ‘…
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THe Mood Song of the Poverty Deniers
Shane Coleman doesn’t believe. CORI recently published its exhaustive Socio-Economic Review 2008 – a 240 page report detailing all aspects of poverty in Ireland. Contained therein was the startling fact…
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An Appalling Vista
ISME’s recent Business Trends Survey makes for grim reading: employment is down; sales, investment, orders, exports: all down. Owners and managers of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) are extremely nervous.…
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The Truth About Irish Wages
The new union, UNITE (the merged ATGWU and AMICUS unions) has just published a report on Irish wages which is sure to prove controversial. It flatly contradicts the prevailing consensus…
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The Economic Legacy of Bertie Ahern
Paul Tansey wrote an impressive list of economic achievements during Bertie Ahern’s tenure as Taoiseach: On Ahern’s watch, the Irish economy almost doubled in size, while the numbers at work…
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Commentary on Irish Political Economy by Michael Taft, researcher for SIPTU
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