Critical Analysis
Strikes in themselves won’t automatically overturn the post-crisis settlement. They do, however, force a public confrontation with the unfinished business of the austerity years.
Critical Analysis
Allianz likes to present itself as just another company that did business with the Nazis in order to continue functioning and that they had no choice. That is a dubious claim, when you look at their history.
Critical Analysis
Across County Kerry, the official figures from the Residential Tenancies Board (RTB) show a clear and accelerating pattern over the past several years: notices of termination have risen sharply, with the majority now driven by landlords’ decisions.
Critical Analysis
Though a great deal is often placed in economic analysis on the influence that US FDI exerts over the economy, the continued exertion of British financial control is often overlooked.
Critical Analysis
Over a hundred years later, large estates and the remaining landlord interests of families of British aristocratic origin still figure prominently in the Irish landscape and, in some cases, the rental economy.
Critical Analysis
The City of Cork remains scarred by vacant and derelict properties that sit idle, while thousands struggle to find housing. Notably, anti-dereliction campaigners documented approximately 450 derelict units within two kilometres of the city centre.
Critical Analysis
We will not allow labourites to smear us for refusing to let them justify the imprisonment of communists in Ukraine or over us attempting to save rural Limerick on the issue of Aughinish Alumina.
Critical Analysis
Families continue to live with the daily reality of black mould creeping across walls, damp that never quite leaves the air, and the quiet exhaustion of trying to keep a home safe for children.
Critical Analysis
In Gaelic Ireland, the land and productive assets were neither the absolute property of a state or private owner. Under the Brehon laws, a tribe or clan held the territory in common.
Critical Analysis
Sanctioning Aughinish Alumina will not save a single Ukrainian life. Russia's war machine has demonstrated it can function through numerous rounds of sanctions. Other ways to bring the war to an end must be tried.
Critical Analysis
That is the paradox being considered this Winter. A society may be able to produce enough food, warmth and the ordinary goods of daily life, but individuals may be denied access to them because they don’t have enough purchasing power.
Critical Analysis
Peadar O’Donnell spent a lifetime insisting that formal independence without social content left existing injustices intact under new management. The empty apartments, the stretched rents and the generation locked out of home ownership proves him right.