Posted in Irish journalism, Irish Economy on Nov 15th, 2010 No Comments »
I’ll be chairing this talk, which is on this Thursday in The Pearse Centre, 27 Pearse Street, Dublin 2, @ 8pm.
All welcome!
LECTURE SERIES
Ireland in Crisis: Challenging the Consensus
8.00pm, Thursday, 18 November 2010
Speakers: Mary Murphy (Department of Sociology, NUI Maynooth)
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Posted in fuckwits, Irish journalism on Nov 3rd, 2010 1 Comment »
This is what Angela Merkel told reporters after the European summit last week. “I think it is important to create a clear culture of stability in Europe. Europe makes us strong but Europe needs rules. It must be successful.”
I’m saying nothing. But does it not make you nervous to hear a German talk in […]
Posted in portraits, Irish journalism on Oct 23rd, 2010 No Comments »
Posted in Irish property bubble, Irish journalism, Irish social history on Oct 17th, 2010 4 Comments »
There are very few shining lights in Irish journalism, especially when it comes to property and the housing market. Most of them acted as cheerleaders for the boom, with Brendan O’Connor’s “Smart Ballsy Guys” typical of the shameless approach undertaken by the newspapers.
This is not a recent phenomenon by any means. The Irish Times, for […]
Posted in portraits, Irish journalism, Irish Times on Oct 10th, 2010 No Comments »
Posted in portraits, Bankrupt ireland, Irish journalism on Oct 10th, 2010 2 Comments »
Posted in Irish property bubble, Irish journalism on Oct 6th, 2010 4 Comments »
A word of caution is, however, necessary in the case of Ireland, where significant differences between the results of the two methods point to a considerable degree of uncertainty regarding the size and sign of house price misalignments” (p.37)
The full report is available here
This is what Ann Cahill had to say today.
HOUSE prices in Ireland […]
Posted in fuckwits, Irish journalism on Oct 5th, 2010 9 Comments »
I saw that Pat Kenny had this economic genius on his vanity show, Frontline, last night.
Apart from telling us in 2006 that the Celtic Tiger was facing nothing but growth and good times, in 2008 Dan O’Brien told us that there was nothing to worry about.
the global gloom is overdone. Investor sentiment internationally has over-reacted […]
Posted in Bankrupt ireland, Irish property bubble, Irish journalism, Banks on Oct 3rd, 2010 14 Comments »
[Thanks to ec for the story and link to the transcript]
I’m usually criticising David McWilliams, so I don’t get to say this that often, but he plays an absolute blinder here.
He is completely correct.
I think that there’s something very deep going on in the government, which is that the establishment in Ireland, and when […]
Posted in Irish journalism, Irish Society, Irish social history, Irish History on Sep 29th, 2010 No Comments »
DCTV programme on the seminal Irish feminist journal, Banshee, which was produced by Irish Women United in the 1970s.
Contributions from Anne Speed, who was a member of Irish Women United, and from Clare Butler and Angela Coraccio of RAG (Revolutionary Anarchafeminist Group). I give some historical background. The programme was recorded in February of […]
