Written by Foras Teamhrach
One of the advisors of the McCarthy Report was the Irish Managing Director of State Street Corporation in Ireland. State Street Corporation, is a U.S. financial services holding company. State Street Bank and Trust Company, a leading custodian bank, and its sister company State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), a leading registered investment advisor, together comprise [...]
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Written by Foras Teamhrach
Irish Rail has confirmed it is to cease passenger services on the Waterford to Rosslare line in the southeast. The company said it will explore the possibility of keeping the line open as a tourist/heritage railway, but it maintained that with passenger numbers at 25 per day, the route was “unsustainable”. A public meeting was [...]
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Written by Foras Teamhrach
Thousands of community workers, employers and activists marched yesterday in Dublin against the proposed cuts in the McCarthy Report. The Communities against Cuts campaign said an estimated 12,000 to 15,000 people marched from Parnell Square to Molesworth Street before holding a rally outside the Dáil. Women’s groups from Donegal, Roscommon, Mayo and Clare waved placards [...]
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Written by Foras Teamhrach
The Socialist Party of Ireland recently published an article by Stephen Boyd on their website about the proposed “Bord Snip” cuts. The article identified the central lie behind Government and media claims about public spending in Ireland. What follows are two selected quotes from the article, there is a link at the bottom of the [...]
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Written by Foras Teamhrach
The Snip Group proposes to convert the Health Service entirely to a private system and accelerate Ireland’s health service towards the US-model of private medicine. To this end, the group has made the following proposals: p.13. “… the Group is putting forward proposals for initial reductions in public service numbers of over 17,300 (inclusive of [...]
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Written by Foras Teamhrach
These are some selected Paragraphs from Gene Kerrigan’s Article in the Irish Independent of 20th September last – Banker who let slip mask of the elite: …”Now, to Nama and the way in which it repeats our history. The historic parallel is with the Eighties and early Nineties. It was a time of recession and [...]
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Ireland is facing “three immense and immediate challenges”, the Taoiseach Brian Cowen has told participants in the Global Economic Forum at Farmleigh, in Dublin, last week. Mr Cowen said “defining choices” would soon be made on the Lisbon Treaty referendum, the National Asset Management Agency and the Budget. “The referendum on the Lisbon treaty, the [...]
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Written by Foras Teamhrach
The Health Service Executive (HSE) has warned the Government that it could face a funding shortage of nearly €1.4 billion next year if current proposals for its budget are implemented. In a confidential submission to the Department of Health in recent days, the HSE also argues that the recommendation in the recent McCarthy report to [...]
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Written by Foras Teamhrach
Primary School managers and teachers’ union representatives are to discuss the impact of the cutbacks on schools today, as well as further threats of cuts to the sector. RTE stated that the two sides would also discuss INTO directives to members that managers have asserted would make the running of schools even more difficult, so [...]
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Written by Foras Teamhrach
Dublin City Council says it may have to close three of its swimming pools because of lack of funding. The pools at Sean McDermott Street, Crumlin and Coolock which were built in the 1970s will lose a total of €1.1 million this year. The council asserted that this was due to falling attendances and rising [...]
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