I haven’t had time to update this lately, but thanks to a chuckle-worthy comment from someone over at forum.ucc.ie it reminded me. More fool them really. I stopped writing here mostly as I got into Friday morning debates via ‘The Week that Was‘ on Cork Campus Radio with members of Fianna Fáil, Labour, the-party-formerly-known-as-the-PDs-but-now-the-Irish-Liberals, Sinn Féin [...]
Sunday morning, and its the first Sunday in ages I’m up earlier than 12pm, and the first in ages that I haven’t read the SINDO first either. Instead, I’ve been reading the OECD employment report, specifically the report on Ireland.
It makes pretty bleak reading. We are set to hit 15% unemployment in 2010 unless there [...]
In last Thursday’s edition of the Evening Echo Dr. Michael Murphy of UCC, whom I enjoyed working and debating with over the last year, stated that cuts in 3rd level funding and staff embargoes would hamper economic recovery and our competitive position internationally when the recession eases. I agree utterly with Dr. Murphy, but he [...]
