The latest articles from Politico.ie http://politico.ie Wed, 22 May 2013 16:45:19 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://politico.ie/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png http://politico.ie The latest articles from Politico.ie http://politico.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8871&Itemid=877 Last week former Taoiseach and President of IFSC Ireland, John Bruton, said that the banking industry needed "to focus on ethics rather than regulation". As someone who strongly supports the idea of ethical codes and a more central role for ethics in business, I found this remark and the casual... Wed, 15 May 2013 18:54:53 +0100 http://politico.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8870&Itemid=877 "It's Capitalism Stupid" is the tag line for a festival organised by the Colletivo Prezzemolo (http://collettivoprezzemolo.blogspot.ie/) -researchers and workers at the European Institute University (EUI) - in Florence, Italy which is running from 3 - 12 May, 2013. The festival is deliberately scheduled to take place at the same... Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:00 +0100 http://politico.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8869&Itemid=879 FC Barcelona is one of the most successful football clubs in the world and, although like most of the big football clubs around the world. Unlike almost all of the major Premiership clubs elsewhere in Europe, FC Barcelona is not owned by an oligarch or even by a cabal of... Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:23:00 +0100 http://politico.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8868&Itemid=1318 The exchequer deficit in Ireland was €1.6 billion at the beginning of 2008. The exchequer deficit at the start of 2013 was €15 billion. Over the corresponding five years from 2008-2012 inclusive, the total 'savings' by way of public sector pay cutbacks, public spending cutbacks and tax increases amounts to... Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:17:01 +0100 http://politico.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8867&Itemid=883 Laura Agustín is renowned for her ground-breaking research, writing and advocacy on migration, sex work and trafficking. Her writing is available on her blog The Naked Anthropologist and in her highly acclaimed book Sex at the Margins: Migration, Labour Markets and the Rescue Industry. Writing frequently about the sex workers... Thu, 04 Apr 2013 11:14:11 +0100 http://politico.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8866&Itemid=877 Is a euro in a Cypriot bank, locked down by withdrawal limits and capital controls, the same as a euro in an Irish or French bank? Is a euro sitting in, say, a payroll account in Laiki with a balance of more than €100,000 (and subject to an unspecified “haircut”... Wed, 27 Mar 2013 12:21:24 +0100 http://politico.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8865&Itemid=877 On Wednesday, March 20, UCD Women’s Studies hosts renowned sociologist, Prof. Hill Collins for a public lecture (http://www.ucd.ie/socialjustice/newsevents/body,146745,en.html) entitled ‘Where do we go from here? Intersectionality and Social Justice’. Prof. Hill Collins specialises in critical race theory and feminist theory, and is perhaps best known for her work on... Tue, 19 Mar 2013 19:39:06 +0100 http://politico.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8864&Itemid=882 The idea, now enshrined in our Constitution, that there is an equal right to life of the unborn child and of the mother is nonsense. By Vincent Browne. A new person, a girl, has come into the lives of people I know. She has not yet been named but the attachment... Wed, 23 Jan 2013 10:33:08 +0100 http://politico.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8863&Itemid=882 The controversy over horse DNA found in beef burgers should be put it in its proper context - that of a society characterised by quite serious material inequality. By Alistair Fraser. Horseburger (http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0115/horse-meat-beef-burgers.html). There’s no shortage of commentary. What else is there to say? We know it highlights important issues for... Mon, 21 Jan 2013 11:48:17 +0100 http://politico.ie/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8862&Itemid=877 Micheál Martin is using events in the North as part of his strategy to revive Fianna Fáil’s electoral fortunes in the South. By Eoin Ó Broin. The award for opportunist of the week must surely go to Micheál Martin. His opinion piece (http://sluggerotoole.com/2013/01/16/micheal-martin-if-the-executive-is-not-making-progress-on-child-poverty-or-economic-inactivity-or-sectarianism/) in last Wednesday’s Irish News was a timely... Mon, 21 Jan 2013 10:53:35 +0100