Tag: politics
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Irexit… Whats not to like, asks Melanie
So the Bauld Melanie, she who believes Ireland has only a tenuous claim to nationhood has waded in again. With the ludicrous suggestion from Ray Basset yesterday that we should leave the EU and cleave to Mother England, she now suggests Irexit as a way forward. It is indeed as she states a no-brainer. Below the…
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Post Apple, time to rethink FDI policy
Regardless of whether or not an appeal should or should not be taken by the Irish government in relation to the Apple tax ruling, apple themselves will of course appeal. We should not mistake the individual issue, whether Apple did or did not get illegal state aid, for the broader issue of Ireland’s over reliance…
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Missing – Irish World Heritage Sites
Why do we have so few, only in fact three on the island as a whole (Skellig, Bru na Boinne, and Giant’s Causeway)? Some other sites are tentative, but the situation to be honest seems stalled. Great. Much talk is made of the government “campaigning” for sites but the reality is that there is no need…
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Common travel area or common labour market – another brexit conundrum.
So, a problem Ireland faces in the fallout of Brexit is the issue of the Common Travel Area.
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Enda’s Brexit Dilemmas
Enda faces a set of interlocking and mutually incompatible dilemmas regarding Ireland and the post Brexit EU. In the negotiations he faces a number of problems.
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General Elauction 2016
So, the election, or perhaps we should just call it the auction, is in full swing.
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ireland, for the 2,428th time, IS NOT a highly taxed economy
Really, we’re not. Politicians who say we are, employers groups who screech we are, there WRONG. And they know they are. There’s a word for people who consistently say things they know to be untrue.
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Nurses and strikes
So, in protest at the overcrowding and calamitously badly organized nature of the health system, the nurses are to go on strike. Sorta.
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The Irish Revealed Preference for Dysfunctional Institutions
British Prime Minister Harold McMillian famously replied to the question of what was most likely to trip up governments with “Events, dear boy, Events”, demonstrating the random way in which small things can spiral. Who would have thought that a government could fall on foot of children’s shoes, or because of the appointment of a…