2006 September | David McWilliams

September 30th, 2006
What have we got to lose and what are we going to do about it?

Apart from sounding like something that Stalin’s best copywriter would come up with, the Soviet-sounding �National Centre for Partnership and Performance� is a quango that has been set up to assess skill levels in the economy.
September 24th, 2006
Hungary’s Disney economics will hit Irish investors hard

Two years ago, I travelled to Budapest and had a wonderful time. The euphoria of EU accession was in the air and the plane was full of Irish investors clamouring to get into the property market.
September 20th, 2006
Facts on growing wealth could get in the way of a good story

When the Taoiseach starts talking like the leader of the Opposition, we know that the election campaign has begun.
September 18th, 2006
Leviathan: Wicklow: Garden of Ireland or Dublin’s dumping ground?, September 23rd

On Saturday 23rd September, writer and broadcaster David McWilliams will host what is sure to be a passionate interactive debate at Bray’s Mermaid Arts Centre on the sprawl of Dublin’s metropolis into County Wicklow and its effects for good and ill .
September 18th, 2006
Leviathan: The Politics of Food, October 5th

Joining host David McWilliams for a mouth-watering evening of intelligent entertainment to discuss issues such as the global politics of food production, the Slow Food movement, Ireland: the Food Island, restaurants, critics and more.
September 17th, 2006
Wage-spending non-nationals fuelling economic boom

You know that Polish girl who just served you a coffee, the one with the high cheekbones and the green eyes?
September 13th, 2006
We’re now a society of double yellow lines on road to nowhere

This week lots of commentary was concerned with the big stuff, like 9/11 or Michael McDowell and all that.
September 10th, 2006
Economic chaos is exactly what bin Laden wanted

Tomorrow is the fifth anniversary. Where were you when you heard?
September 6th, 2006
All Politics Are Local

What for you was the biggest event of the last few days? The thrilling All Ireland hurling final, the brilliant Electric Picnic at Stradbally, the plucky but doomed football display in Stuttgart or the government’s “think in” in Westport? Yes I thought so; Westport didn’t figure much, despite getting wall to wall coverage on radio and in the papers.
September 3rd, 2006
The boutique generation that refuses to grow up

This weekend, 35,000 people have flooded into Stradbally for the Electric Picnic, the last, and for many the best, music festival of the summer.