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Right, I’ve been stewing for far too long. I’ve been saying “Don’t get me started” for a while now, to anyone who’d listen. So, to put them out of their misery, I think I’d better get started. Time to get it off my chest.
To begin with. Nama. Or, more particularly, Anglo-Irish. I’m not an [...]
In a remarkable turnaround today, Brian Lenihan delivered what he termed the “Children’s Budget” and made a startling apology for the disastrous mess his party had made of the country’s economy.
“The only honourable thing for us to do” he said, “is to acknowledge that it is our fault. We are sorry. It is our [...]
Spent today in Green company, at a general meeting for members in the morning, and an economics seminar in the afternoon. All the Oireachtas members were present, and it was, in the main, a day that reassured me I was in the right party.
I learned something about which “wing” of the party I am on, [...]
I rarely get baldly political in this blog but as the Medical Card fiasco progresses I am picking up one constant theme. The ideological debate is being won constantly at the Cabinet table by Mary Harney, and there isn’t an intellect agile enough to combat her ideologically driven agenda, to tackle her on principle. She’s [...]
Written for the Hot Press 2007 Annual
What stands out for me, in 2007, is the entry of the Greens into Government. Ever since I saw the late lamented German Green pioneer Petra Kelly speak in Dublin when I was fourteen or fifteen, thirty years ago, I’ve thunk in a green way. I was one of [...]
Strolling through the Liberties, in good form with the weather. Getting over a chesty cold, so on the up, spring in my step, cock of the walk. Letter through the door that morning, confirming no nasty virus floats through the veins. Evidently one can lay with dogs and escape lingering fleas; London barrel-scraping can finally [...]
I’m a guilty green. I talk the environmental talk, but I don’t walk the walk, because I get on a Ryanair plane as often as I can, and fly instead.Because of me, a home in Bangladesh or Fiji or Ringsend will be swept away by the rising seas in 2013, just as Greenland thaws for [...]
Written for the environment issue of Hot Press, October 2006.
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