We said from the outset of the banking crisis that the bondholders who lent money to Anglo should be forced to take their losses. The consequences of the government not taking that approach with Anglo alone has cost the Irish taxpayer €25 billion to date, with the possibilities of further billions to come if the government maintains... More

In about three weeks, a Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations will be held in New York to review progress in reaching the Milennium Development Goals (MDGs). It was in September 2000 that over one hundred and fifty world leaders, ranging from Presidents to Prime Ministers and Crown Princes, had gathered at... More

Press release: Councillor Matt Waine (Socialist Party) Minister and politicians celebrate M50 upgrade today while ignoring scandal of wilful destruction of small Irish firm on the project Two former unemployed steel fixers from Tallaght bankrupted by race to the bottom “Mr. John Gallagher and Mr. Terence Farrell, former unemployed... More

Thanks purely to the hard efforts over the years of parents of children with autism, some progress had been made in the creation of schools devoted purely to the teaching of children who suffer from the condition. The method used to teach the children, Applied Behavioral Analysis or ABA, is internationally recognised as the most... More

Business and media circles are agog at “the most significant development in philanthropy” for many decades. Forty US based billionaires have pledged to give half of their wealth to “charity” while living or on their death. The “Giving Pledge” was initiated by two men said to be the richest in... More

All citizens who value the need for publicly owned vital infrastructure would have experienced a shudder of fearful anticipation last month when the Minister for Finance established a Review Group on State Assets and Liabilities. The Department of Finance Press brief’s opening sentence seemed innocuous enough, stating that the... More

Last week, an imposing ship dropped anchor in Dublin Bay. This was not your typical luxury liner where you can find, interspersed among the middling rich who cruise regularly, pensioners and ordinary working people. Of course, they would have saved for years to be able to afford a mere week, or maybe even two, sailing around the... More