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RTÉ’s governance needs to be decentralized
Labour leader’s dig in Dáil ‘Goodbye Viktor Orbán, hello Patrick O’Donovan“. highlighted a serious issue that is being left largely unaddressed – the lack of trust in and less acknowledged the lack of trustworthiness in the media, especially public service media. It is not just woke lefties – a lot of rhetoric from the right-wing…
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Managerialism
A good way to think about managerialism is as a particular way of communicating about organizing that talks about organizations as a means for achieving goals of those who are external to organization. Those external people are often quite distant from the real world organization. These interests are focused on what can be extracted quickly…
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Horseshit: Turning Voters into Consumers
This week a leaflet dropped in my letterbox from a candidate in the upcoming Dublin Central Dáil by-election, expected May 22nd, 2026. It focused on a local issue: the illegal dumping of horse manure. It detailed the party’s efforts to hold the local area manager accountable through formal queries. On the surface, it’s exactly what…
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Economics as a discipline is in trouble: Its own lessons on monopoly even say so!
Economics plays a central role in our societies with major policies framed, formed and implemented by its specialists and its special way of viewing the world (Maesse et al. ,2021). This role has brought some benefits- it is hard to deny that the phenomenal increase in general living standards and equality in developed countries from…
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Dumping transaction costs on customers & workers
I am fortunate enough to live within a short drive of IKEA Dublin. It is easy for me to drop up there for a quick visit to pick up something and I usually enjoy the trip. Not on my recent trip. I was buying a microwave and had checked its measurements for the spot where…
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Ethiopian in Belfast.
Enjoyed the Ethiopian food and atmosphere in Jebana, 77 Dublin Rd, Belfast BT2 7HF on a recent trip up North. Its clientele, who seemed mostly to be from the local Ethiopian community, and its TV screen showing Ethiopian music videos had me feeling I was on trip further away than Belfast adding to the tasty…
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Phibsborough Local Councillors
The 2024 local elections resulted in the following councillors being elected for Cabra-Glasnevin city centre ward in Dublin that includes Phibsborough Councillor Felijn Jose, Councillor Séamus McGrattan, Councillor Cat O’ Driscoll Councillor Colm O’Rourke, Councillor Cieran Perr, Councillor Gayle Ralph. The links on the councillors takes you to the Dublin City Councillors which has a…
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2024 Local Elections Cabra Glasnevin
Atkinson, Calum, Communications Associate, Sinn Féin Boyle-Shafer, Angela, Community Education Coordinator, The Labour Party Farrell, Amy, Personal Assistant, Sinn Féin Greene, Garrett, Lecturer, Workers’ Party Jose, Feljin, Physicist, Green Party McCormack, Eimer, Public Representative, Fianna Fáil McGrattan, Séamas, City Councillor, Sinn Féin Meenagh, Declan, Advocacy Officer, Labour Party Mulligan, Sarah Louise, Entrepreneur, Non-Party Murray, Jean,…
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Regulated Rent Reduction needed
This a repost of a piece originally posted on my old website back in March 26th, 2020. How about a price ceiling on rents at 20% less than 9th March 2020? It is good to see the government put a freeze on rent and evictions, but I think more needs to be done. Given the…
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A new international corporation tax regime is coming – let’s make it fair.
This is a reposting of a blog post from my old website – it was originally posted on July 16th, 2020. Ireland’s export-oriented foreign investment strategy was extraordinarily successful in attracting foreign direct investment (Barry & O’Mahony, 2017). It is easy to underplay the important role of the enterprise and vigour of the Industrial Developments…