Ireland Calling


Ireland Calling

by John Spain
John doesn't mince words, and uses the unminced words to talk about Ireland's problems.

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Ireland Calling for April 2010
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 at 08:13 AM

The good, the bad and the greedy of the Irish pension scandal

In this column last week I was discussing the way some people at the top of Irish business and official life have been trying to ignore the harsh cutbacks in pay and services that everyone else here has to take on board.



Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 11:41 PM

Ireland's economy is also lost in the volcanic dust


It's a bit like being in an episode of Lost, except that we're not killing each other. Not yet anyway.

But since that vast cloud of volcanic dust from Iceland moved over us last week and grounded the planes, we're certainly cut off from most of the rest of the world. It's a reminder of something we easily forget -- we're an island nation, stuck out on the edge of Europe. Without air transport, it can feel pretty lonely out here.



Wednesday, April 14, 2010 at 11:26 AM

Ireland of the welcomes . . . and the racism

One story was big enough last week to push our economic crisis off the front pages for a day, and that was the racist murder of a 15-year-old Nigerian boy stabbed to death in Tyrrelstown, a housing estate on the west side of Dublin, the sprawling area of cheap new housing where many immigrants have settled. 




Wednesday, April 07, 2010 at 10:19 AM

Staring into the black hole of financial debt in Ireland


Financial Armageddon ... economic holocaust ... Celtic Chernobyl ... journalists and commentators here struggled last week to find words to adequately express the scale of what has happened to us.

Normally, language like this would be way over the top. But this time, extreme though the language was, it seemed too weak to encompass the extent of the monumental disaster that has engulfed us.





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