Unsurprisingly perhaps there have been more than a few eyebrows raised in British political circles at the decision by an apparently cash strapped UK Government to loan the even more cash strapped Irish Government almost £7 billion. This is despite the fact that Britain is not a member of the Euro zone, and unlike other […]
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Ireland: there is a better way
Nov 20th, 2010 by Andy Newman.The Fianna Fail/Green coalition in Dublin, in spite of the most aggressive cuts programme in Europe, still has the effective support of Fine Gael and Labour, the main opposition parties. Sinn Féin policy has three key components: First, is to shift the burden of taxation from the poor to a rich in a series of […]
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Whatever Happened To The Luck Of the Irish?
Nov 19th, 2010 by Mark Seddon.Ireland, once hailed as the ‘Celtic Tiger’, is bust and has gone cap in hand to the IMF and the European Central Bank. Ireland was once hailed by Britain’s now Chancellor, George Osborne as the ‘country to emulate’. He asked ‘how can we learn from them?’ Riding a wave of speculation and easy credit, Ireland, […]
