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Recession Ireland: The Twice-Done Country

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So we all know what’s going on in the world with economics and who wants to mention the dreaded R-word again !It’s not enough either that everyone is feeling hard-done-by and World leaders have quite nicely managed to cough things up rightly but it seems to me that Ireland has been done over twice by it’s government…

Not so long ago, all the Irish could hear on the radio and read in the newspapers was THE CELTIC TIGER… The economy was booming and the under-lying message was spend, spend, spend… all was wonderful in our bright green wonderland. So good times come and bad times come and after all that is the way of things. We had our moment in the sun and this is our darker hour, so maybe no one should be all that surprised… and that line of thought might be alright if that was what had happened.

THE TRUTH IS: Our economic prosperity was only for the few, like some sort of elitist joke. Certainly, no one I ever met really benefitted from the so-called Tiger! I know I didn’t catch a glimpse of it or even get a sniff of it on someone else! Neither did we have our cake… nor are we ever likely to eat it!

World Fair Trade Day 2008 – May 10th

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World Fair Trade Day is coming up May 10th.

International Women’s Day 2008 (IWD) – 8th March

gallery_2.gifSaturday 8th March is International Women’s Day. “IWD” is the global day connecting all women around the world and has been observed since 1908, a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world when 15,000 women marched through New York City demanding shorter hours, better pay and voting rights. Great improvements have been made. We do have female astronauts and prime ministers, school girls are welcomed into university, women can work and have a family, women have real choices. And so the tone and nature of IWD has, for the past few years, moved from being a reminder about the negatives to a celebration of the positives.

 

A list of events taking place throughout Ireland is available from the National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI).