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Public sector union CPSU in Ireland: Build alliance to halt rotten deal
At a CPSU consultative conference in July, delegate after delegate raised their continued opposition to the Croke Park deal.
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Ireland: “First prize in Ireland for hypocrisy goes to the government”
Over the course of the last month, the breathtaking hypocrisy of the capitalist elites in Ireland and internationally has been glaringly exposed.
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Bankruptcy: Is Ireland going bust?
UCD economist, Morgan Kelly, was pilloried by the establishment back in May when he said it was no longer a case of whether Ireland would go bankrupt but when.
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Ireland: Credit downgrade vexes market worshippers
The decision of the rating agency, Standard and Poor’s, to downgrade the credit rating of Ireland from AA to AA- was met with hypocritical gnashing of teeth by Irish establishment figures.
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Ireland: Brian Cowen fifth best global leader! You must be joking
Despite being the most unpopular Taoiseach in the history of the state, at the head of the most unpopular government in the history of the state, Brian Cowen has been ranked as the fifth best […]
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Ireland: “How much longer can this government stagger from crisis to crisis?”
The Fianna Fáil/ Green Party Government has just about limped to the shelter of the Dáil summer recess, battered and severely frayed at the edges.
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Ireland: Up in the polls – Are Labour a radical alternative?
An IPSOS/MRBI poll published in June in the Irish Times showed Labour as the most popular party in the Irish Republic with 32% support. This has never happened before in the history of elections or […]
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Ireland & the EU: Austerity programmes provoke general strikes and struggles
According to some Greek protesters Ireland is not like Greece – one banner on a demonstration read, “This is not Ireland, we will fight”. Finance Minister, Brian Lenihan, says the same but from a different […]
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Ireland: March & Rally in Dublin in “Week of Protest & Solidarity”
After Joe Higgins’ and other left MEPs initiative for a European-wide week of protest and solidarity a protests is organised in Ireland on 26th June. The poster can be found here.
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Ireland: Will Ireland follow Greece?
Austerity programmes across EU provoke mass struggles and general strikes