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Questionable Behaviour?

By ⋅ June 3, 2010 ⋅ Post a comment

Coming soon (perhaps) to a TV screen near you… In the latest episode of No Frontiers, Kathryn Thomas cruises into an electric ’Juice Point’ to recharge her electric car. She finishes off her skinny latte and dumps the recyclable paper cup in the appropriate green bin before driving back to her solar-panelled hotel. Or, even [...]

NAMA – the questions looking for amendments

By ⋅ November 4, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Although NAMA is going ahead, many issues and questions still remain. More than 135 amendments have been suggested at the debate stage. Here are some of the issues that need to be addressed on behalf of the public. Some of theses come from a list I “tweeted” to Prime Time last night after @marklittlenews asked [...]

Nama: not fit for purpose

By ⋅ October 29, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Last night’s Leviathan debate was an interesting one – despite the egg-throwing – and it showed even more clearly that Nama is not fit for its purpose and that the politicans have no idea what they are doing. They are truly making it up as they go along. Nama, according to its website, is an independent commerical [...]

Nobel Prize-winning economist says NO to Nama

By ⋅ October 8, 2009 ⋅ One comment

Nama is a bad idea said Professor Joseph Stiglitz, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, on Wednesday night while addressing Trinity College’s historical society. Nama is likely to “burden this generation for 25 to 50 years or more. I am very uncomfortable with a government with such a minority support making such a decision.”  The view that there is no alternative is “just [...]

Help me, Obi-Wan Gormley; you’re my only hope.

By ⋅ September 21, 2009 ⋅ Post a comment

Yes, I said it to Minister Eamon Ryan during Leviathan at the Electric Picnic but I will say it again. Green Party, you must get some balls. For all our sakes, be brave – leave this government while you still have a soul.  If you do not understand that then let me take on the persona of [...]

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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