Archive for the ‘Economy’ Category

Stephen Collins is at it again. His latest Irish Times column on the Austerity Treaty (10 March 2012) displays his trademark disregard for the facts.

In the first of what is going to be a regular contribution to Mandate’s inhouse publication Union Post I argue that one year after taking office the evidence suggests that Fine Gael and Labour’s policy of austerity isn’t working.

Listen back to Dublin Mid West Labour TD Joanna Tuffy debating the 2012 budget with Eoin O Broin on Liffey Sounds FM here.

Watch Eoin Ó Broin debate the role of the Labour Party in Government with Joanna Tuffy TD, journalist Mick Clifford and historian Niamh Puirséil on Tonight with Vincent Browne here.