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Is capitalism dead?

By ⋅ September 6, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

This was the subject of yesterday’s Leviathan at Electric Picnic. www.leviathan.ie As usual, David McWilliam’s was the charming, entertaining MC and he put some tough questions to the panel: brave-for-showing-his-face-instead-of-Fianna-Fail  Green Party TD Eamon Ryan; socialist, journalist and activist Eamon (get out the pikestaffs for the revolution) McCann;  journalist and author Dan O’Brien of The Economist Intelligence [...]

The cost of “Keeping up with the Fitzpatricks”

By ⋅ March 6, 2009 ⋅ 3 comments

Ireland needs a drastic shift in cultural attitudes – away from entitlement and towards personal responsibility. The arrogant aristocracy has made taxpayers as cheap as chips.

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