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Ireland becomes a NAMA Republic

Joe Carter writes
All across Ireland the evidence of an enormous property crash hits one in the face with empty houses and office developments all over the country. Many of these, it is now admitted, will be bulldozed. There are apparently 620 “ghost” estates in which 5,000 families live amid 15,000 empty or unfinished homes. From […]

16Aug2010 | Administrator | 4 comments | Continued
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Ireland: shootings are political cul de sac - Socialist Resistance editorial

Two soldiers and a police officer were shot dead by republican groups in the space of 28 hours in early March, in the North of Ireland. This followed a period of less successful attempts to regenerate the “armed struggle”, otherwise dormant for over a decade. In that time the IRA has effectively disbanded and Sinn […]

19Mar2009 | Piers Mostyn | 0 comments | Continued
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Celtic Tiger faces extinction

After Iceland, it is the Irish economy that has seen the most dramatic collapse in Europe at this point in the global downturn. This collapse has left the public finances in chaos, seen the beginnings of a new wave of working class militancy, and put Brian Cowen’s government under severe pressure. This marks a dramatic […]

12Mar2009 | Administrator | 3 comments | Continued