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As Bertie Ahern does his screen-test for a future job on The Sunday Game or Late Late, he was quick to defend his handling of the economic downturn. Unemployment now at 5.1% and construction workers falling like flies - and little re-training to give them a hand up.
The Dublin Central TD, who quit office in [...]

In a week dominated by harrowing scenes of civilian suffering in the ongoing Russian-Georgian conflict over the separatist region of South Ossetia. There are shades of the Sudetenland crisis in 1938, when Hitler, on the pretext of defending a ‘persecuted’ German minority in that region of Czechoslovakia, was appeased and [...]

The subject of David McWilliams column today is how the GAA transfer index shows a growing trend of emigration from Ireland.
According to the GCTI, emigration is on the increase from all over Ireland and it is recurring in precisely the age group that we need most — our young, fit people. What makes the change [...]

The Prime Ministers of France and Spain pull their cabinets out of their August holidays for emergency meetings about the economy. Gordon Brown is back on the job while high profile ministers deal with messy dossiers. Even Belfast’s politicians are managing signals of their presence — if only to get involved in [...]

Yeah yeah, it’s Tuesday. It’s Green Ink’s Week Last Week.

I wrote this on my own blog this morning, but I thought I would share it here too…
I have written about this before and I will say it again.  One of the worst things to ever happen to education in Ireland was when Niamh Breathnach as minister for education abolished fees.
Ostensibly, this was to [...]

Sarkozy is a genius. See people think he is for the Lisbon Treaty but is in fact against it. Yes Irish Election can reveal that he is purposely trying to destroy the EU. Take his latest idea.
The president of France, the current holder of the European Union’s rotating presidency, has floated the scheme as a [...]

If you see Charlie McCreevey walking down the street, dining in a fashionable café, or panhandling outside Government Buildings – arrest him. You have the power – the common law citizen’s arrest. The charge? Crimes against the economy. Is that an offence? Yes, it dates back to Saxon times, judicated on by courts that looked [...]

Stephen Collins writes for the Irish Times so you would expect some sort of intelligent thinking. I mean it is his job after all. He is not a Kevin Myres columnist who is there to provoke, he does not need to be deeply incisive it is about filling the letters page. Stephen Collins is there [...]