Irish family values: Victim to the Troika
The Irish government is issuing swingeing property tax demands to millions of outraged home owners, with threats of deductions from wages for those who refuse to pay
- 11 April 2013
A redundant political class in Ireland
The more Ireland cedes to Brussels, the more people will argue there is little need for an independent Irish parliament
- 3 January 2013
If Ireland votes Yes to the EU's Fiscal Union they'll surely be allowed to vote again, right?
If no doesn't mean no for the autocrats in Brussels, why should yes mean yes?
- 29 May 2012
A German Social Democrat who has Ireland by the throat
Even the most vigilant among us would have had difficulty in imagining just how far Eurocrats like Jorg Asmussen are prepared to go in building a proto-European state, thoroughly drained of democracy
- 16 April 2012
When Irish eyes aren’t smiling
With the Irish going to vote on the fiscal treaty, could the eurozone face a backlash from a bitter nation that has been battered by German-imposed hardships?
- 29 February 2012
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