Posted in irish culture, Irish Society, Irish social history on Jun 15th, 2010 22 Comments »
I never watched Wanderly Wagon. I have no memories of it apart from the theme tune and the Safe Cross Code. And I don’t remember anybody in school ever talking about it. We didn’t stand around in the playground going ‘ahhh did you see Judge and Crow yesterday? Did you see O’Brien talking to his […]
Posted in Irish Society, Irish property bubble, Banks, Irish Economy, Irish housing, dublin, Irish social history on Jun 15th, 2010 2 Comments »
That is the land of lost content,
I see it shining plain.
The happy highways where I went
and cannot come again.
I was brought up in the Seventies. Strong colours and oversized jumpers. These are my memories. The boundaries of my world were the Harmonstown road to the Santry river, the shops on Edenmore park, the old […]
Posted in Industrial Relations, Irish Society, Irish Economy on Jun 11th, 2010 5 Comments »
Apologies for the shortness of this post but I just wanted to get this out in response to the latest truism that wage inflation undermined the Irish economy.
Basically, what we see in Ireland over thirty years is that the average industrial wage and inflation oscillate around each other quite closely. As inflation drops/rises, wages follow, […]
Posted in Irish Society, Irish Economy on Jun 9th, 2010 6 Comments »
The figures above are based on the Quarterly Household Survey reports of employment by SOC classification. They relate to the changes in employment from the fourth quarter 2008 to the fourth quarter 2009.
The Quarterly Household Survey is a sample survey, details of which are outlined here.
The survey is designed to measure trends, rather than […]
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 Society, Irish Economy on May 26th, 2010 10 Comments »
I swear, when God was handing out muppets, the SWP must have been at the top of the queue going “Oh! Are these free?”
The quote above is from one of the speakers at Tuesday’s rally. I didn’t get his name but he was from TCD Students’ Union, and he stood on the back of a […]
Posted in Irish Society, Irish Economy on May 16th, 2010 2 Comments »
Posted in Irish Middle Class, Irish Society, Irish Economy, Irish Working Class on May 16th, 2010 No Comments »
First of all, the caveats.
The Quarterly Household Survey (QHS) is a sample survey, compiled by the Central Statistics Office (CSO), the details of which are outlined in Tuesday’s post which looked at broad occupations.
There are 21 economic sectors in the NACE Rev.2, and for its purposes, the CSO has amalgamated some of these to give […]
Posted in Industrial Relations, Irish Society, Irish Economy on May 13th, 2010 No Comments »
[From Paula Geraghty of TradeUnionTVIreland.]
Thousands took to the streets to protest at the bailout of the banks and at the jobs crisis in Ireland. Watch some of the speeches, listen to the views of some of the protesters.
John Bisset a veteran campaigner for social justice was particularly scathing of the role of the media in […]
Posted in Irish Middle Class, Irish Society, Irish Economy, Irish Working Class on May 11th, 2010 2 Comments »
Continuing on from our August 2009 post on the Quarterly Household Survey (QHS), Q1 2009, this is a look at employment and unemployment in the Republic, Oct-Dec ‘08 to Oct-Dec ‘09, based on the QHS Q4 2009.
We know that due to the government’s active pursuit of deflation, Ireland’s GNP shrank by world-beating 11.3% in […]