Sometimes something happens that takes one breath away. It makes it hard to speak, never mind coherently. The Government’s bank guarantee proposal is one such. It constitutes a fundamental capitulation, not…

I was pulling my hair out when a friend rang me pulling her hair out.  A lot of hair being grabbed.  Let's start with my hair.  Noel Whelan has given us the benefit of…

Ah, the low-paid – if words were money they'd be living on easy street.  Everybody wants to help the low-paid.  Certainly, Fianna Fail was determined to.  Shortly before becoming Taoiseach,…

Good riddance.  Or as WorldbyStorm writes over at Cedar Lounge Revolution, 'The PDs get a a four week reprieve.  Then they die.'  Can't come soon enough.  The only downside is…

As of this writing, the full text of the draft pay deal is still not readily available but the broad outlines are clear.  The pay element contains real wage cuts,…

I admire people who have absolutely no shame about going public with their proposals, no matter how weird, strange and utterly nonsensical those proposals might be.  Such people don't care…

With the pay talks nearly at an end, IBEC, in the form of its representative here on earth – our friend Turlough – is warning of the gravest reperscussions if…

Good lord – is Master Batt O'Keefe in danger of turning into a modern-day Huey Long, a radical redistributionist who wants to confiscate wealth from the rich and give it to…

You'd think from listening to the employers of the land that every business in every sector is in danger of bankruptcy, liquidation or receivership.  They are all teetering on some ill-defined brink whose…

It seems that nationalisation is all the rage these days.  The takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac,  if it does not put paid to the notion that housing finance…

Remember the 3rd of September. That is the day the economic conservative consensus died, when all the certainties propagated by our one-party state were shredded. Fiona Fail has panicked in…

In a previous post, I suggested Turlough O’Sullivan suffered from an unfortunate quirk – he couldn’t bring himself to saying the words ‘low-paid’ with inserting the rider ‘so-called’. I proposed…

IBEC's Turlough O'Sullivan has an unfortunate ideological quirk but it is treatable.  It seems he can't say the words 'low-paid' without inserting 'so-called' before them.  In fact, he has trouble…

From the American political blogosphere – an interesting concept (actually the religious-political-progressive blogosphere).  Yes, American religious-progressive.  With all the European media focused on Governor Sarah Palin and her supporters (Rush…