Category Archive: Social Comment

Aug
22

Sunday Indo Aug 22nd 2010 – Root Out Public Sector and bank ‘untouchables’

The Sunday Independent article I wrote, which was published on 22 August 2010

We have now reached the stage where for every one person on the Live Register there is another person, who is a public servant. So for the purpose of simplicity, we can say that there are 450,000 people unemployed and 450,000 public and civil servants. This accounts for 900,000 people out of the total workforce of 2.1 million. Or put another way, nearly a quarter of the entire workforce is in the public service and a quarter unemployed.

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Aug
04

Will You Help Us Get the Water Flowing? | Amnesty International

Will You Help Us Get the Water Flowing? | Amnesty International. How Israel is squeezing the life out of Palestinian communities An Israeli government determined to drive Palestinians off their land, making way for even more illegal settlements, is deliberately denying water to families. Today we need your help to fight this life-threatening policy. Your …

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Jul
11

The solution to this crisis is in our hands – Sunday Independent

Have you noticed the endless stream of economic experts telling us about things we don’t understand, in a language we have never heard? For example, you may have heard the term ‘quantitative easing’ mentioned, which actually means ‘printing more paper money’. What it does not tell you is that this is effectively money borrowed today from our taxes tomorrow. There are 100′s of similar examples. These so-called economic experts are the very people who could not forecast the largest economic collapse in the history of the State. These are the same people who told you that house prices would continue to rise. These are the people who talk about “green shoots of recovery”. These are the people who have consistently lied to you, whether this was maliciously or through incompetence, you can decide yourself.

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Jul
10

400,000 Euros per job created ? There is a better way…

Recently, The Minister for Trade Enterprise and (Un)Employment Mr. Batt O’Keeffe ,announced the creation of 50 high-tech jobs, at a cost of €20 million. Not surprisingly these jobs are are to be created in his constituency. Think about that for a moment, €400,000 for each job created. And even then, the profits are repatriated to the parent companies Country of origin.

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Jan
27

Helping Haiti & The Reasons Why?

Israeli bombing of Palestine

To read the full article, please click on the Headline above.
Over the last week or so we have all witnessed the death, destruction and incomprehensible suffering of the people of Haiti. Our response to this has varied from collectively admitting that, as bad as things are here in Ireland, they don’t even begin to compare with what is happening in Haiti to indifference.

Thankfully many of us have been sufficiently moved to make financial contributions to the non-governmental organisations which are operating on the ground there. In most cases we feel that this is the very least we can do and also wish we could do more. Personally, I think we can and it only takes a little bit of effort. Let me explain.

While observing the latest updates regarding the international effort to assist people in Haiti, a rather bizarre thought entered my head. I say rather bizarre because on the face of it it seems to be neither empathetic or justified but if you bear with me, you will hopefully see that the way in which we respond to human suffering appears to be determined by how detached we are from it.

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