Miracles and instant cures from disability on offer from Irish Government. Main-streaming will eradicate severe and profound disabilities. Employers will suddenly offer jobs to everyone even if they can’t work. Cutting disability allowance for young people brings them into line with their non disabled peers. These deductions can be made by the defence strategy by […]
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Labour backbenchers (when not appearing on all TV/Radio programmes whilst their FG counterparts hide in the bushes) are issuing pre budget leaflets like this. This is from Ciaran Lynch TD. If you see any other leaflets over the weekend let me know. Nothing about equality there… all about hard choices and long term approaches. In […]
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Towards a Second Republic: Irish Politics after the Celtic Tiger, by Peadar Kirby and Mary P. Murphy was published earlier this month and is surely to become a key text for students of Irish Politics and the broader social sciences. The book initially examines the impact of the Celtic Tiger both it’s development and operation […]
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Making Ireland Home is a video launched this week from members of MPower which is the Youth Empowerment Project started by Migrant Rights Centre Ireland. Those taking part in the video were all born outside Ireland and have made Ireland their home. One might wonder why when you listen to some of their experiences of […]
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– Ireland has the second highest number of millionaires in the EU. – The 300 richest people in Ireland are worth close to €50bn. – Excluding housing values the top 1% control 34% of Ireland’s wealth. – The government plans to cut expenditure, services and infrastructure twice as much as they plan to raise in […]
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