The Wholesome Photo of the Month Thu May 09, 2024 11:01 | Anti-Empire
In 3 War Years Russia Will Have Spent $3... Thu May 09, 2024 02:17 | Anti-Empire
UK Sending Missiles to Be Fired Into Rus... Tue May 07, 2024 14:17 | Marko Marjanović
US Gives Weapons to Taiwan for Free, The... Fri May 03, 2024 03:55 | Anti-Empire
Russia Has 17 Percent More Defense Jobs ... Tue Apr 30, 2024 11:56 | Marko Marjanović
Anti-Empire >>
Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.
Julian Assange is finally free ! Tue Jun 25, 2024 21:11 | indy
Stand With Palestine: Workplace Day of Action on Naksa Day Thu May 30, 2024 21:55 | indy
It is Chemtrails Month and Time to Visit this Topic Thu May 30, 2024 00:01 | indy
Hamburg 14.05. "Rote" Flora Reoccupied By Internationalists Wed May 15, 2024 15:49 | Internationalist left
Eddie Hobbs Breaks the Silence Exposing the Hidden Agenda Behind the WHO Treaty Sat May 11, 2024 22:41 | indy
Human Rights in Ireland >>
The Night I Saw a Ghost Wed Jul 31, 2024 11:00 | James Leary
Former airline pilot James Leary never believed in ghosts, until one night he found himself staying in the Hilton Hotel in Barbados and was awoken by a strange apparition standing in the window.
The post The Night I Saw a Ghost appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Are Ex-Footballers Really Spreading ?Far Right? Conspiracy Theories? Wed Jul 31, 2024 09:00 | Steven Tucker
As Joey Barton goes on trial for uttering hurty words online, Steven Tucker examines the Guardian's claim that ex-footballers are prone to "far Right conspiracy theories" and finds it to be... a conspiracy theory.
The post Are Ex-Footballers Really Spreading ?Far Right? Conspiracy Theories? appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
In the Latest Weekly Sceptic, Nick Dixon and Toby Young Talk About the Olympic Opening Ceremony, Big... Wed Jul 31, 2024 07:00 | Toby Young
In the latest Weekly Sceptic, the talking points are the Olympic opening ceremony, Big Tech's efforts to memory-hole the Trump assassination attempt and Suella Braverman's withdrawal from the Tory leadership race.
The post In the Latest Weekly Sceptic, Nick Dixon and Toby Young Talk About the Olympic Opening Ceremony, Big Tech?s Memory-Holing of the Trump Assassination Attempt and Suella?s Withdrawal appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
News Round-Up Wed Jul 31, 2024 01:30 | Richard Eldred
A summary of the most interesting stories in the past 24 hours that challenge the prevailing orthodoxy about the ?climate emergency?, public health ?crises? and the supposed moral defects of Western civilisation.
The post News Round-Up appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Biden Proposes Sweeping Supreme Court Reforms as He Attacks ?Extreme? Judges Tue Jul 30, 2024 19:00 | Will Jones
Joe Biden has proposed sweeping reforms to the U.S. Supreme Court accusing it of making "dangerous and extreme decisions" and losing the public?s trust.
The post Biden Proposes Sweeping Supreme Court Reforms as He Attacks “Extreme” Judges appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.
Lockdown Skeptics >>
Voltaire, international edition
Netanyahu soon to appear before the US Congress? It will be decisive for the suc... Thu Jul 04, 2024 04:44 | en
Voltaire, International Newsletter N°93 Fri Jun 28, 2024 14:49 | en
Will Israel succeed in attacking Lebanon and pushing the United States to nuke I... Fri Jun 28, 2024 14:40 | en
Will Netanyahu launch tactical nuclear bombs (sic) against Hezbollah, with US su... Thu Jun 27, 2024 12:09 | en
Will Israel provoke a cataclysm?, by Thierry Meyssan Tue Jun 25, 2024 06:59 | en
Voltaire Network >>
View Comments Titles Only
save preference
Comments (1 of 1)
Jump To Comment: 1Who benefits from Austerity? We on the Island of Ireland should know the answer to this but if we do, we are being hampered greatly by a Troika that is using us as a guinea pig to expedite a solution to the Euro crisis. It is nice and neat to call us exemplary but then to penalise us and not waiver debt/bailout costs is surely unacceptable. An 80 year old billionaire has written an essay featured in the New York Review of Books about the tragedy of the European Union and how to resolve it. Expertise and experience of men like George Soros is worth exploring.
David McWilliams today writes an article in the Independent which every concerned Irish citizen on the Island of Ireland ought to read to re-activate the thinking process that is needed to survive this economic crisis. Title: 'As we forge deeper ties in Europe we are forgetting our closest ally'.
McWilliams hits the heart today. The Irish and Britain. 1950's Ireland destitute from the concept of 'self sufficiency, DeValera and FF provided the education that exported our doctors and nurses to the UK along with those who built Britain, the construction workers. McWilliams talks about the newest wave of emigrants that London welcomes that takes me back to the late 1980's Ireland and no work here and the opportunity of work in the UK. When you add to this Ryanair and cheap fares this forged an economic growth that is often ignored.
The ties that bind us according to Williams: 'whether our top civil servants and politicians like it or not, is Britain, and neither Germany nor France, will remain the natural home for Iriish products investment and people. Why? McWilliams states the most interesting facts for consideration:
9.8 million people in 2011 flew between the Republic and Britain ie 186,000 per week (note Ryanairs profits this year). Apparently only 400,000 travelled from Germany.
Euro and Sterling - 30 years down the road with part of Ireland in Sterling and the rest aligned to Euro, the fact is we still cannot equal the trade we have with Britain which is Ireland's second largest export partner. We send £14.265bn of goods / £15,052bn worth of services per year to the UK. According to McWilliams article, Ireland imports more from Britain than from the whole of Europe combined. What does this say? For me it explains that sense of void when one enters EU House on Dawson Street and get that feeling that inspite of all the data/publications provided by the EU gravy train bureaucracy, nobody is really interested that much in Europe because they know Britain albeit via colonialism and 700 years.
Bord Bia states that the UK is Ireland's key export partner for food. Irish beef accounts for 60% of the British market. The UK has a food deficit which Ireland can supply (what has changed!). Ireland uses and contributes greatly to the UK ports. Then there is the fact that 40% Northern Ireland exports go south of the border.
1973 and our entry to the EEC opened up opportunities for our small Island but we must take account of why the EEC considered our entry with a degree of favour. It is and still remains the fact that Island status surrounded by sea gives a certain geo-political status. Exploration oil and gas are too the fore again as resources.
Too add to this, we now can add that there is a huge potential in the area of energy between our two countries. Renewable energy is on the way with an East-West Interconnector.
The challenge is ours. Cameron is paving the way to give the British people the option at Referendum of an EU Exit. We need to ask what this would really mean for Ireland? Does this mean that if Britain holds a referendum, that we will follow suit? We speak English, in the US - they speak English. The upwardly mobile Chinese seek education in the US and the UK, the law is Common Law.
Ireland should not be cowed down for its small size and for the fear of being a precedent to other PIIGs, Troika, have some honour when making decisions about our future and our young generation.
Comyn