Written by Foras Teamhrach
JPG File: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Irish_Army_Cap_Badge.png The Barracks to be Closed: 500 soldiers are directly affected by the decision to close four barracks in Mullingar, Clonmel, Cavan and Castlebar. This will mean that there will be almost no significant military barracks left on the border. The 170 members of the 4th Field Artillery based at Columb Barracks [...]
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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
“William Slattery of the financial services company State Street, and a member of the McCarthy Committee, has offered some advice to the nation in its time of need. With unemployment climbing ever higher, with 250,000 jobs already shed since the start of the recession, he proposes that the largest employer in the state slash a [...]
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Written by Foras Teamhrach
British government austerity measures aimed at slashing spending in local Government and the health service are likely to deliver billions of pounds of new business for private corporations. The measures planned in Ireland to downsize local Government and cut services can be viewed as being part of the same process. The article begins: “Outsourcing firms [...]
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Written by Foras Teamhrach
Medical card holders unable to pay a new 50c prescription charge are going without their medication. The charge for medical card holders came into force from early October, but elderly people in particular, who are on several medications, are having to shell out several euro at a time to the pharmacist. An elderly Dublin man, [...]
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Written by Foras Teamhrach
“Public resistence to spending cuts has been “extraordinary” and not helped by a perception that banks are to blame for the financial crisis, according to the author of the Bord Snip report Colm McCarthy. In 2009, the economist said it is was “not realistic” to think the public purse can be rescued withour making [...]
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Written by Foras Teamhrach
CIÉ chairman John Lynch told the Oireachtas Committee on Transport the Waterford to Rosslare line had not been supported economically and did not serve a large population. The company had frequently warned of falling passenger numbers while the sugar beet freight business, which sustained the route, ceased in 2006. A trial extension of the passenger [...]
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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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