Tag: politics
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Should County Councils sponsor political (party) festivals?
Err, no. But Kildare County Council seem to be in to this with Sinn Fein. Why?
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Ireland – Not really a high tax economy, just a badly designed tax economy
We as a polity are not big on evidence based policy. We rather form an opinion, then seek evidence for it, or better yet stay silent. This leads to suboptimal decision making, to put it mildly. The emergent debate on tax shows this in spades.
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Irish Universities and enlightenment ideals
The Fellows of TCD have organised a symposium on the topic of how aligned or otherwise universities are to enlightenment ideals. Also of relevance is how recent and proposed changes in governance and the regulatory environment may hamper or aid this alignment. The symposium is free but registration is required. It takes place this coming…
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What might radical politics look like in an Irish context?
So Renua has been born, a new Irish political party. New ideas and new blood are always good ideas in democracy, and even if there is not a whole pile of it evident so far the principle should be applauded.Their website and documents are full of rhetoric on a new kind of politics and a…
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10 Questions the media might ask President of Renua, Eddie Hobbs (but probably wont)
How much money was lost by investors in the cape verde holiday home debacle? How much money has he earned from work for the public sector broadcaster RTE? Does he still believe that the female dominated teachers unions voted as they did on the Haddington Road agreement because it was their time of the month?…
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Interrogating God, the Central Banking Version
Today at the banking enquiry in the Irish parliament parliamentarians will get a unique opportunity, to interview and interrogate God. I say God, but whom I really mean is Patrick Honohan.
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The Behavioural Economics of the Coalition’s Slump..
Just as all politics is, in the end, economics (what can we afford to do), it is reasonable to suggest that all economic policy is political (what can we afford to do). The name of this game is political economy after all, and we forget that at our peril. As we look forward to the…
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Decoding Lucinda’s “not a party” announcement
So Lucinda Creighton has launched a party, or an announcement of a party … Its called, for some reason, rebootireland. Theocratic Deocrats is my favourite name so far but Papal Before Profit would also work… Keeping in line with the computer, hip with the kids y’all, brand new yoof feeling, their Recruitment Sgt, Corporal Hobbs, shown here…
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Ghosts of Anglo’s Past
If Irish water is the Omnishambles of 2014 then Anglo Irish bank is likely to be the omnishambles of the first several decades of this millennium. Like some banking Chernobyl poorly encased in an ill designed hastily erected carapace it continues to leak its toxicity poisoning all around it. Anglo let us not forget was…