As long as labour abuses remain in far-off places rarely subject to scrutiny by the likes of the New York Times, companies like Apple will remain more swayed by stockholders pushing to maximise their profits than consumers who want the workers who make their iPods and iPads treated justly. By Julie Hollard.
The proposed personal insolvency bill "may not be the best model and may even be counter productive", a conference organised by FLAC heard last week. By Sandy Hazel
The Garda Siochána Ombudsman Commission (GSOC) investigation into the Corrib Garda 'rape' recording incident has, from the start, been "about protecting An Garda Síochána", according to Jerrie Ann Sullivan, one of the women who made the recording public.
Those who claim that Ireland would be denied access to EFSF funding – or any other funding sources – in the event of No vote on the Fiscal Treaty should provide concrete evidence to this effect. By Michael Taft and Tom McDonnell.
The optics are looking bad for a government that is desperately trying to distance itself from the malfeasance of its predecessors. By David Johnson.
How can we trust a government that insists on describing the economy in a way that is completely at odds with the fact? By Michael Taft.
Even when presented with cold hard reality, Government ministers refuse to acknowledge it, preferring to live in a fantasy island. Spin is one thing, denial is another.
We may be seeing the opening of a gap between deserving and undeserving women in the campaign for abortion legislation. How might this gap be closed? By Mairéad Enright.
The following is my presentation to the Dáil Committee on European Affairs.
On behalf of UNITE the Union I would like to put forward seven points regarding the Fiscal Treaty. {jathumbnailoff}
1. The Fiscal Treaty will require substantially more austerity measures in the medium-term.
Steve Keen
The financial crisis demonstrated extraordinary failures on the part of policy elites and economic experts. And yet we remain governed by technocrats. We need to re-politicise economic policy-making, or else repeat the mistakes of the past. By Karel Williams, Mick Moran and Andrew Bowman.
The galloping euro crisis is dismantling the last vestiges of Europe’s democratic processes everywhere - not just in the periphery. By Yanis Varoufakis.