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Michael Taft - Sun Nov 22, 2009 13:29 Sometimes numbers tell the best story. They may not tell us why - that comes afterwards, when we try to explain. But numbers are a good starting point. The OECD Economic Outlook has produced a set of numbers with which we can do some charting (I apologise but the Outlook is not accessible on-line -at [...]
Prenderghast - Sun Nov 22, 2009 13:18 Thierry Henry, 32
FIFA Footballer of the Year 2010
What is Va-Va-Voom? Va-Va-Voom is doing things with style, with flair, panache, a certain je ne sais quoi. Who can say? Not me. I am not the ref.
Gillette Mach 4 Turbo: Now that’s what I call a close shave.
I do a lot of work for charity, you know. [...]
Ed Walsh - Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:59 The following is an extract from the ISN pamphlet A Force for Progress? Five Myths About the European Union. which was launched earlier on this week by Harry Browne at Connolly Books.
The European Union has divided opinion on the Left. Some people see it as a bulwark against the power of multi-national corporations that [...]
Conor McCabe - Thu Nov 19, 2009 23:57 In September 2009 I interviewed John Throne about his own history, as well as the Irish left and working class. We talked for about two hours and after I had stopped recording, I asked John would it be ok to ask him about his expulsion from the Committee for a Workers’ International. He said yes, [...]
Dara McHugh - Thu Nov 19, 2009 16:22 Sometimes a team needs a leader, to take a game into their hands and turn it around. For France, Henry was that man. A disorganised and unmotivated French side were harried and fraught by an under-valued Irish team, but extra time put the win up for grabs ? and it was the French who reached [...]
Michael Taft - Thu Nov 19, 2009 16:07 One could despair. All the major political parties are supporting another round of fiscal contraction, though they may differ on the balance of tax increases and public spending cuts. In this respect, Fianna Fail has won that particular battle, we are just fighting within the parameters they have set. There is seemingly no challenge to [...]
donagh - Thu Nov 19, 2009 11:57 Yesterday I talked to Michael Burke, an economist with 25 years experience working in the Financial Services sector in the UK, including a 5 years period as a senior economist in Citibank. Recently he entered the economic debate here by saying that the Government?s current strategy of cutting government spending could lead to an even [...]
donagh - Wed Nov 18, 2009 18:34 Today, ICTU and TASC published the Hierarchy of Earnings, Attributes and Privilege report (PDF) or H.E. A.P report, authored by Professor Terrence McDonough of The Dept of Economics, NUI Galway, (see recent ILR podcast interview) and Jason Loughrey. You can find the full press release below. The full report deserves to be studied in detail [...]
Manuel Estimulo - Wed Nov 18, 2009 10:48 The Musculing Mr. Nadal: Check Out His Sexpack!
Everyone in the Estímulo household this week am being debating the news that lithe, musculing Majorcan Raphael Nadal is to be back leading the Spanish team in the final of the David Cup tennis tournament final against somewhere call the Czech Republic next month in December.
On the one [...]
Conor McCabe - Tue Nov 17, 2009 23:41 Below is a recording of Harry Browne at the launch of the Irish Socialist Network’s latest pamphlet, A force for progress? Five myths about the European Union. The event took place in Connolly Books, Essex St, Dublin 2. |
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