Lads, he's trying to avoid a thumping in the local elections. Just let it slide and watch his party go full Ides of March on him

Discussing the emergence of the Irish economic model with Stephen Kinsella as part of the Business at UL podcast series.

open.spotify.com/episode/4wNGqZ…

This is entrapment

The anger politicians are expected to soak up is crazy

Respect to the sole male student over 65 in Ireland in 1991

From Frank Barry's 'Industry and Policy in Independent Ireland', so we're all clear why the housing programme of the 1920s happened!

Dunnes using 'market prices'!

The predicament for FG is well articulated here. But I'd be stunned if the housing crisis was the outcome of any coherent plan!
irishtimes.com/opinion/2024/0…

What exactly is happening in Fine Gael?

Another reminder of the good old days in Ireland

The blocking by Israel of UNRWA aid into north Gaza is completely unacceptable. On humanitarian access to Gaza, António Guterres is crystal clear; blocked aid is a ‘moral outrage’.
The use of starvation as a weapon of war is a blatant violation of international humanitarian law.

Ronnie Drew working in the phone exchange had a caller giving out about a long connection delay. He told her to fuck off and stop bothering him

'Do you know who this is? I'm the Minister's wife!'

'And do you know who this is?'

'No'

'Thank Jaysus for that'

And hung up on her

Ireland in 1926:

6,621 people worked making boots and shoes

6,452 worked forging horse shoes

The myth that 'Economic Development' was about free trade and FDI will outlive the sun apparently.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A major British party running an ad like this would have been unthinkable twenty years ago.

Back to the 1960s Tory playbook theguardian.com/world/2014/oct…

It must be hard pretending not to be a sociopath when all around you are also sociopaths

theguardian.com/us-news/2024/m…

Horrified by UN report that half of Gaza’s population face catastrophic food insecurity & imminent famine.

This is entirely man-made. Israel bears responsibility for restrictions on food, water & health supplies. These must be lifted immediately; a huge increase in aid is needed

Very strange when the hoax is vastly more popular and responsible than your existing policy

irishtimes.com/business/2024/…