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CrisisJam #4
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Electioneering and its inherent mud-slinging dominated the airwaves this week, as the 30th Dáil was dissolved making way for an election on 25 February. On the same day Brian Cowen stood down as Taoiseach and retired from politics with a severance package in excess of €300,000, 300,000 workers on the minimum wage saw their pay cut by €1 per hour to €7.65. The previous day Ivor Callely was awarded €17,000 by the High Court for 'loss of earnings' during his 20-day suspension from the Seanad. Curated by Gavan Titley, CrisisJam looks at the Age of Austerity, the 'use them and lose them' attitude to migrants, Harney's neoliberal health legacy, nodding dog syndrome, and Tom O'Connor sets out a plan for dealing with our debt, challenging the idea that THERE IS NO ALTERNATIVE.
- Austerity, mon amour – Nyder O'Leary
- Yes, there is an alternative – Tom O'Connor
- Love Life? Love Enda – Eadaoin O'Sullivan
- Migrant workers must not be used as a political football – Siobhán O'Donoghue
- The health myths that have outlasted Mary Harney – Sara Burke
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Austerity, mon amour
 The really real world of what David McNally calls the neoliberal mutation requires a renewed lexicon. The 'necessity' of gouging public expenditure to reassure investors - dismayed by the very government debts that have guaranteed their survival - has given rise to an 'age of austerity'. Steven Poole has recently blogged of the Unspeak of austerity as implying 'a severe self-discipline of the kind that is laudable, virtuous in its serious asceticism.' In Ireland, this moralization is lacquered w... |
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Yes, there is an alternative
 Thus far, the general election campaign has been marked by 'don't hold me back' style commitments by the major parties to renegotiating the EU/IMF deal. With their political masters under pressure, political correspondents such as Stephen Collins and Shane Coleman went into overdrive, insisting that any moves to renegotiate the terms of the deal, never mind default, are delusional, and that the country must simply 'knuckle down and pay its debts'. Yet as Andy Storey showed in his Crisisjam piece... |
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Love life? Love Enda
 Following the launch of the Edelman Trust Barometer and Enda Kenny's affirmation that he stands for trust, trust and more trust, Eadaoin O'Sullivan looks at nodding dog syndrome and why some world views appear more credible than others.
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Migrant workers must not be used as a political football
 Integration is a two-way process, interculturalism enriches all our lives; migrants, you've been so vibrant, but now off you pop to where you come from. In advance of an election campaign in which prominent politicians with a track record of populist pronouncements will star, Siobhan O Donoghue outlines the precarious situation of many people who have migrated to Ireland, and sets out mimimum issues that any new government must address.
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The health myths that have outlasted Mary Harney
 Mary Harney may be gone from the health ministry but many of the myths (and bad policies) that the PDs propagated about the health system remain. In the first of a series of articles drawing out the neoliberal myths that have structured health policy, Sara Burke starts with some of the most basic.
Top of the myth list is the fundamental assumption that public healthcare is bad and private is good. In fact, if you are very sick in the Irish health system you will have to avail of the public heal ... |
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