Posted in Irish property bubble, Irish Capitalism, Irish Society, Irish housing on Jun 8th, 2010 19 Comments »
There’s a comment often bandied about when it comes to housing in Ireland: ‘our parents got through it, so can we.’
Well, our parents didn’t get through this, because our parents never faced what Ireland is facing now - at least in terms of housing debt.
The sheer level of theft which has taken place - and […]
Posted in Irish Capitalism, Irish property bubble, Fianna Fáil, Irish Economy, Irish housing, Irish social history on Jun 4th, 2010 No Comments »
Figures are available here.
Posted in Irish Marxism, Irish Republicanism, Irish Capitalism, Irish Economy, Irish Working Class, Irish Labour History on Apr 28th, 2010 21 Comments »
[Click on image to read the booklet]
I’m putting up this booklet with a couple of caveats, but in spite of them, the booklet does show how the Irish left has pointed out the serious flaws within the Irish banking system for decades, and that the problems are structural, not personal.
Last year’s publication by Shane […]
Posted in Irish Capitalism, Neo-liberalism, Irish Economy, Irish History on Apr 15th, 2010 1 Comment »
John Lanchester has a post that is worth reading on the London Review blog about the irony of the Conservative Party launching their 2010 election manifesto at the abandoned and now crumbling Battersea Power Station.
Briefly, the Conservative party allowed the power station to be sold off in 1983, in a bidding process that […]
Posted in Irish property bubble, Irish Capitalism, fuckwits, Irish Economy on Apr 14th, 2010 7 Comments »
Austin Hughes is still being asked for his analysis by the Irish Times.
Here are some gems from a debate Austin Hughes got into with Morgan Kelly on 8 October 2007. It was one of those ‘Head 2 Head’ opinion pieces the Times loves so well, and it was entitled “Are We Heading For a […]
Posted in Irish Capitalism, Irish Middle Class on Sep 15th, 2009 4 Comments »
The class of people who told us two years ago that everything is ok, are the same class of people who are now telling us what to do to put things right.
They were acting completely in their self-interest then, and they’re acting in their self-interest now.
There’s a news clip from two years ago […]
Posted in Irish Capitalism, Irish Middle Class, Irish Society, Irish Working Class on Sep 8th, 2009 6 Comments »
Last Friday on the Late Late Show, Ryan Tubridy tried to get the Taoiseach, Brian Cowen, to apologise to the Irish people for the state of the economy. It was an all-too-familiar routine - one that frames the roots of the present crisis in terms of moral failure, and the beginnings of a solution […]