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Corruption in
politics [2002]
The Flood Report will, by itself, change nothing, except, perhaps, to
induce more caution to the thicker element of the ruling class, but
it does provide one useful service: it makes it clear that the
wealthy have a dominant influence in affairs of state
Lindsay Tribunal :
The Cuts That Killed [2002]
A deliberate decision was made that it was acceptable to risk killing
patients in order to save a few bob. Properly screened blood products
were more expensive. So, the BTSB didn't recall products which they
know to be potentially deadly.
The housing
crisis [2000]
After six years of massive house price increases it is now almost
impossible for the average worker to buy a house in Ireland. Average
house prices in Ireland rose from 11.3 times the average income in
1989 to 18.2 times income in 1999. We name the
Greedy Bastards
The housing
crisis: Finding a scapegoat [2000]
The real cause of the housing crisis is neither the tens of thousands
of returning Irish born migrants nor the 15,000 or so asylum seekers.
The reason housing is in short supply and expensive is because of the
hoarding of land and super profits of a handful of speculators
Anarchist News No
23 [Summer 2000]
What should be done with the politicans who ripped us off
Our TAX Money - Will
we get a receipt? [Spring
1999]
What the Flood and McCracken and Moriarty
Tribunals have revealed that politicians and business people
regularly exchange massive sums of money without the slightest regard
to taxation. Over 85% of tax on income is paid by PAYE workers.
It's all so
inevitable [Summer
1999]
The then Prime Ministers of Ireland, Greece, France, Britain, Italy,
Spain and Belgium have all been associated with charges of varying
degrees of fraud, nepotism and political favouritism.
Local Elections -
bring on the dancing horses [Autumn
1999]
When you take a good look at the people who are supposed to be
running your local area the best lesson to walk away with is that we
could do such a better job ourselves
Dublin
Dockland to be developed - Who will benefit? [Summer 1998]
The Dublin Docklands, from Ringsend to Sheriff Street, are starting a
very major re-development which will take place over the next fifteen
years. Already the property developers are in the area buying up the
land, a lot of which is owned by state and semi-state
companies.
Corruption
...it's business as usual [Autumn
1998]
Recent months have seen the banking and financial sectors in Ireland
coming under scrutiny as never before
Now that's
what we call a rip-off [Autumn 1998]
Corruption in the sell off of Belfast International Airport
The Anti-D
scandal [Spring 1997]
Due to contaminated Anti-D about a thousand women have contracted
Hepatitis C. We look at why the contamination happened and why the
government tried to cover it up
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