There’s a lot of living to be done in so-called old age
Originally published as a business column in the Irish Times on May 5, 2009 Western society has hang-ups about ageing, and older people are often invisible or ignored. Fianna Fáil TD Mary O’Rourke, one...
View ArticleTainted language
Old fashioned legalese isn¹t just frustrating to read, it can also lead to some pretty serious misgivings on the part of the people it is meant to serve. Surely it¹s time plain English made its way...
View ArticleNama-lama-ding-dong
Let’s give the National Asset Management Agency (Nama) a name that represents what it really is… a nonsensical, half-baked take on an Irish problem. Shoo-be-doo-bop a loo bop!
View ArticleRe-imagining your nation
By this stage, most of us are sick of the government’s lack of leadership, the inequities in our health and educational systems, our two-tiered system of justice for rich and poor, the blind eye turned...
View ArticleA SIM game for Nama?
Remember the computer simulation game SimCity in the early 1990s? The objective of SimCity was to build and design a city either without specific goals or towards certain scenarios. The game allowed...
View ArticleIs capitalism dead?
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:...
View ArticleHelp me, Obi-Wan Gormley; you’re my only hope.
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...
View ArticleNobel Prize-winning economist says NO to Nama
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...
View ArticleNama: not fit for purpose
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...
View ArticleNAMA – the questions looking for amendments
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...
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