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• Culpable negligence

  
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  Household insurance at Redfellow Hovel requires three locks on the rear doors to the garden. After all, that’s the weaker, less observed point of access. So very reasonable stuff. In another context Malcolm found himself reviewing how Éire coped with the outbreak of World War II. That’s a far bigger topic ...
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• Taking things on the chin

  
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  FG’s Digital Media team have issued advice to TD’s regarding taking social media criticism on the chin. Bizarrely though we are now of course all looking for FG’s #tcot (Top conservative on t’nternet). Does this mean Karl Rove is busy in FG HQ? Or have they been paying the yanks again for spoofery?  We’ll ...
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• Austerity indefinitely…

  
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  … would appear to be the proscription being suggested by Cliff Taylor in last weekend’s Sunday Business Post. And it’s worth noting the piece linked to by CL in comments over the weekend here where, as he says in the FT Wolfgang Munchau’s take is that: The new ‘austerity be damned’ zeitgeist is ...
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• Natzism? That WWII pardon…

  
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  An unfortunate misspelling in the subhead accompanying the news that legislation has passed granting a pardon to those who deserted the Irish Army and joined the British Army during World War II. I’m deeply unconvinced by the rationale presented and as noted previously here would prefer something closer to a ...
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• Got to admit…

  
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  Jacky Jones in the Irish Times,former HSE regional manager of health promotion, is a voice of reason on a range of issues from private schools through to reproductive rights. Unfortunately the Protection of Life during Pregnancy Bill 2013 will not protect or vindicate women’s reproductive rights. The name ...
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• What is the point of ECB interest rate cuts or rises…

  
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  …at ground level in this part of this island? I only ask because of the weird dislocation between the policies implemented by the ECB and those adopted by banks and mortgage providers in this state. Now, of course, there is the obvious caveat that it is unlikely that RoI mortgage holders are top of the list of ...
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• Don’t mention the war…

  
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  …would appear to be Stephen Collins approach in this piece on the speech by Michael D. Higgins during the week where he strongly critiqued austerity. It’s not so much Collins’ analysis of the speech… The logic of his [Higgins] critique of the liberal economic orthodoxy prevailing in EU institutions and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Fianna Fáil and Abortion

  
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  How unfortunate to watch Fianna Fáil down yet another hole of their own making. Months on from Savita and draft legislation dominating the week still no white smoke. That widely perceived weakness of leader Micheál Martin has returned and while even most Fine Gael backbenchers prepare to endure one side or the other ...
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• My Political Position—–Paddy Healy

  
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  My Political Position—–Paddy Healy The position I outline here is my own position only. It is based on my experience as a left-wing activist at national and international level over 50 years. It is my personal response to current disunity on the left. There is a broad spectrum of political analyses in ...
  2 weeks ago

• MAYDAY – Unfinished Business – 7PM May 1st 2013

  
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  [IMG: http://cedarlounge.files.wordpress.com/2013/04/mayday1.jpg?w=460&h=621]
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• And a little more on Croke Park 2

  
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  The Sunday Business Post editorial this last weekend was – perhaps inevitably – focussed on CP2. It notes that that paper recommended acceptance, but it continues ‘now the [decision of PS workers] must be accepted From that decision, of course, stem some consequences to which the government must now face up’. ...
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• Lacking credit…

  
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  I was struck by this piece in the Irish Times from last Friday, which contradicts a trope of the crisis. Hitherto the idea put about by parts of the business sector has been that a primary issue facing it is the lack of credit from the banks. And yet, at a conference hosted jointly by the ESRI and Department of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Copy of “Children’s Protection Society” leaflet recently circulated to local authority members

  
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  Many thanks to the person who forwarded this to the CLR. The first page below is bad enough, but the second is actually impossible to post up here due to its content (not in the sense of censoring it, though it’s very grim stuff, but due to potentially libellous statements).
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• That Croke Park 2 ‘No’… Everyone’s fault but…

  
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  Well now. Reading the Sunday Business Post and a piece on the unions in the wake of the rejection of CP 2 ‘disunited and disaffected’ it’s kind of entertaining, to be honest. They bring Eddie Molloy in for his tuppence ha’penny worth. And further in to the piece I’ve got to admit I laughed out loud when I ...
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• And so it begins (again)… that public/private sector pay differentiation.

  
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  Reading the Irish Times this morning what does one see but the following report from the Seanad. Colm Burke (FG) said it was important to look at what what happening in the private sector when considering the rejection of Croke Park II. “Many workers in the private sector have suffered pay reductions of more ...
  4 weeks ago

• A simple truth: Austerity, CP2 and beyond… and democracy too.

  
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  Arthur Beesley in the Irish Times sometimes says things that are both obvious but also usually unsaid in the current debate. For example, away from all the boosterism about how if the Coalition is tough and sticks the course, he makes the simple point that the CP2… …backlash demonstrates that there is very ...
  4 weeks ago

• Backroom in the SBP examines the LP

  
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  At the weekend there was a comment that appeared to implicitly decry the focus on the Labour Party on the site at the moment, but one goes where the news is and so indeed does the media, hence the numerous pieces on the LP over the weekend. In the SBP there are two pieces on that party, plus one larger one on the ...
  4 weeks ago

• 20th April Seminar on Equality & Policy Making

  
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• CP2 holed beneath the water. Well, well, well…

  
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  …Have to be honest, I didn’t expect that. So used I suspect we are to campaigns only half-lighting, marches that get low turnouts, Dáil votes only going one way and so on it’s sometimes easy to forget there’s a lot of very pissed off union members out there, above and beyond those on the traditional social ...
  4 weeks ago

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