Comment on From Spain – 19th March by RosencrantzisDead
Piece from Der Spiegel: http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/opinion-german-euro-leadership-stubborn-and-egotistical-a-890848.html The drama over Cyprus has made clear that the euro-zone crisis...
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[...] they – and we – are well aware of its superficial and ultimately corrosive nature? Are the political classes in Ireland so lacking in wit that like a dog returning to its vomit they must nose at...
View ArticleComment on From Spain – 19th March by richotto
I suppose its an improvement from The Victor.
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TUI 80% against, so I’ve heard! That’s not insignificant.
View ArticleComment on Taxes and jobs. And unleash the McQuaid redux… by hjfoley
Reblogged this on <a href="http://misebogland.wordpress.com/2013/03/27/9909/" rel="nofollow">misebogland</a> and commented: Some interesting thoughts in this post
View ArticleComment on Irish Left Archive: The Spirit of Freedom, Vol I, No. I, Issued by...
Can I just say what a relief to discover someone who really understands what they’re discussing online. You definitely understand how to bring an issue to light and make it important. A lot more people...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 27th March, 2013 by CB
http://nearfm.ie/podcast/the-history-show-episode-thirteen/ Episode thirteen of the History Show on Near FM. On today’s episode we’re joined by Dr. Brian Hanley of University College Dublin. Dr. Brian...
View ArticleComment on What you want to say… Open Thread, 27th March, 2013 by Tomboktu
Last Saturday, Christopher Robson, co-founder of the Dublin Lesbian and Gay Men's Collective (who pubished the ground-breaking <i>Out For Ourselves</i>), of Gay Health Action, and of GLEN,...
View ArticleComment on Meath East by doctorfive
Dotski calling it for FF http://irishpollingreport.wordpress.com/2013/03/28/never-been-to-meath/
View ArticleComment on From Spain – 19th March by richotto
Who mentioned moral strength? The words I used were responsible and restrained and those are qualities which they demonstrably showed in examples I gave such as culturally an aversion to credit and...
View ArticleComment on From Spain – 19th March by CL
a ‘pathetic fallacy’, yes. But quite apart from the figurative meaning, ‘pathetic’ and ‘fallacious’ are apt descriptions of the IMF’s approach to the crisis.
View ArticleComment on Stevie and the ‘Red Menace’…. Maoists in Limerick in 1970 by...
If you have been arrested or accused of a crime in Pottstown or the surrounding area, you need to fight back aggressively. You need someone on your side. We have done hundreds of DUI cases, so we know...
View ArticleComment on What of the middle class? What indeed? by More on the middle...
[...] a way it’s a perfect complement to the Martha Kearns piece on the ‘middle class’ from last week’, but whereas Kearns at least had the good sense to acknowledge that there are many many who toil...
View ArticleComment on From Spain – 19th March by ejh
<i>the countries who are paying for our bubble economy and budget deficit</i> This is a crock.
View ArticleComment on From Spain – 19th March by ejh
Talking of the IMF, who was the last head of that organisation <i>not</i> to be under investigation for a serious offence?
View ArticleComment on Meath East by hardcore for nerds
I can’t believe I saw John McGurk make this point first, but the DDI vote fits well within that for independents in preceding Meath East elections. if you look at this graph you’ll see they made barely...
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Comment on Meath East by WorldbyStorm
It’s a fair point hfn. You could have something there re the volatility and inscrutability writ small.
View ArticleComment on More on the middle class… by WorldbyStorm
A diversionary tactic. Has to be. And quite a deliberate one I’d think. Deeply cynical.
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