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December 31st, 2006
Make politicians accountable for antiquated road network
The other day, I visited a highly profitable multinational company in the west of Ireland. The complex was high-spec, the workers well-paid and well-educated. Despite (or maybe because of) being in a non-unionised plant, workers’ terms and conditions were far better than most heavily unionised workplaces.
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December 27th, 2006
Nation of adults now behaving just like spoilt little children
Now that you’ve splurged, given, received, admired, gushed, drunk, gorged and financed it all on the “never never”, let’s take stock. Will 2007 be a good or bad year? What will determine success or failure and, most importantly, will we continue on the path which we have trodden since 2000 – the one of ever-increasing debt, higher house prices, more immigration and more congestion? In short, will the affluent trajectory which has catapulted modern Ireland forward continue? Will the election be won on the simple slogan “it’s the economy, stupid” or will some other imperative grab us?
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December 20th, 2006
Children are chomping their way to an epidemic
For anyone who has first-hand experience of the debilitating effects of diabetes – particularly in the old – a survey this week which reveals the prevalence of obesity in children makes disturbing reading.
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December 17th, 2006
Take care of the littlest ones and generations will benefit
Do teachers make better parents? Do children of teachers have better chances of working and beating the system?
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December 10th, 2006
The road to nowhere
‘I can always tell the weather in Dublin by the annoying sound of wipers, swishing back and forth incessantly. It drives me mad’’.
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December 6th, 2006
3rd Anniversary Show – Ireland in 2016: The Pope’s Revenge
Thursday December 14th @ 9pm
CrawDaddy, Harcourt Street, Dublin 2.
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December 6th, 2006
NY is our new Lourdes as we shop til we drop in Big Apple
Linda is a shopping planner. Yes, you heard right – a shopping planner. Not only does she organise tours of the great shopping Mecca that is New York City, she organises limos, special spa, nail and wax treatments and books restaurants after a hard day’s spending in the Big Apple.
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December 3rd, 2006
Caught between two powers
The dollar appears eventually to be going the way every economist has been predicting for the past ten years: downwards. How far it will go is anyone’s guess, but it will have ramifications. What does it mean for us, the most American-dependent country in Europe? And what does it mean for global economic relations?
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