Category Archive: Social Comment

Feb
16

Bank Debt vs Sovereign Debt: What’s the difference?

Kevin O’Rourke, Ronan Lyons, Constantin Gurdgiev & David McWilliams discuss Ireland’s debt. This video gives a really good explanation of why it is so important that we know the difference between them and why they must be separated!

Feb
16

Default, the EU and what’s next

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In this 4 minute video Prof Kevin O’Rourke & Constantin Gurdgiev explain what happens after we separate what we as a Country owes from the debts of the privately owed Irish banks.

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Feb
15

Independent candidate calls for probe into ‘economic treason’ allegations

Independent candidate calls for probe into ‘economic treason’ allegations Sunday Feb 13th 2011 Eamonn Blaney, independent candidate in Dublin North East and co-founder of the New Vision alliance of independent candidates, is calling for a formal trial to investigate the allegations of “economic treason” that have been levelled against the outgoing government. “I am deadly …

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Feb
15

‘New Vision’ tells of public anger

New Vision tells of public anger PAUL CULLEN and MARIE O’HALLORAN INDEPENDENTS: A GROUP of Independents standing under the banner of New Vision says they could win seats if the anger expressed by people on doorsteps translates into votes. Eamonn Blaney, spokesman for the group, said 20 Independent candidates had so far committed to the …

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Dec
06

Web designer refuses to cringe in the face of adversity – Irish Times

IT WOULD be a shame to waste a strong iconoclastic streak, wouldn’t it? Eamonn Blaney uses his to excellent effect; badgering, doorstepping, blathering full belt to whoever will listen to get where he needs to go with his new venture – Cringefactor.com.

A few years ago the Howth native left, rather than waiting to get pushed from, his €110,000 a year job. He decided to upskill and headed into Trinity College Dublin to do a masters in business administration. Blaney spent €25,000 of his own funds, got his masters degree and re-entered a working world of . . . very little – no head honcho job, few prospects of one and faltering hope in a radically different work environment to the one he had previously inhabited.

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