Paul Murphy Column

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Referendum in May Vote YES – Remove all restrictions on Divorce

By Paul Murphy TD “Hello Divorce – Bye Bye Daddy” was a key slogan of the right-wing No campaign seeking to prevent the introduction of divorce in Ireland in 1995. That referendum passed by the narrowest of margins, 0.5%. It is an

Apr 11, 2019

Latest·News & Analysis·Paul Murphy Column

This weak government can be beaten

By Paul Murphy TD “The reality is that a small clique of hard-left, Trotskyite politicians, who are quite upfront about seeking to overthrow the current system, are now arguably setting the political agenda.” (Shane Coleman, Irish Independent 17 May 2016) Although he

Jun 9, 2016

Economy·News & Analysis·Paul Murphy Column

Department of Finance ‘cooking the books’ on corporation tax

Technical Paper Author, Seamus Coffey has previously estimated ‘implicit corporate tax rate’ as 8%. Paper itself admits ‘implicit tax rate’ of 5.9% in 2012

Apr 8, 2014

Paul Murphy Column

Government’s strategy on bank debt is in tatters and will not deliver

Troika report being cynically used by pro austerity MEPs to give false hope of a retrospective bank deal.

Feb 25, 2014

Economy·News & Analysis·Paul Murphy Column

The Youth Guarantee is an escalation of the government’s war on young people

The government’s real response to unemployment is two-pronged: forced emigration and using mass unemployment to try to drive down wages and conditions.

Feb 8, 2014

Paul Murphy Column

Occupational pensions crisis – capitalist failure to guarantee a future for retired workers

In recent and current industrial battles the crisis in pension funds has been centre stage. Between the nine commercial semi state companies in Ireland there is a deficit in the schemes totalling €3 billion, half of which is concentrated in one company

Feb 6, 2014

Paul Murphy Column

Advance Pitstop Seeks to Save at Least €377,000 in Unpaid Wages Through JobBridge

Advance Pitstop have today advertised on JobBridge for 28 interns to work as ‘sales fitters’ in their branches across the country. These are 28 jobs which could be filled by any one of the hundreds of thousands of people on the dole

Jan 15, 2014

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Minister’s ignorant comments on Qatar stadiums shows he regards dead migrant workers as ‘non people’

The approach on Middle East trade mission puts Ireland’s trade policy firmly in the camp the fundamentalist free trade hawks.

Jan 9, 2014

Paul Murphy Column

MEP writes to Taoiseach about Human Rights in Saudi Arabia & Qatar

Socialist Party MEP has written to Taoiseach Enda Kenny about his incredible praise for brutal dictatorships in his trade mission to the Middle East. The full text of the letter, which sets out some of the reality of workers', women's and human

Jan 8, 2014

Paul Murphy Column

Taoiseach puts profits for big business ahead of human rights on tour of Gulf dictatorships

Commenting on the Taoiseach’s tour of the Gulf States, Paul Murphy MEP commented: “I find the comments from Enda Kenny, who welcomed Saudi Arabia’s election to the United Nation’s human rights council to be an utter disgrace. The regime is using its

Jan 7, 2014

Economy·Featured Articles·Paul Murphy Column

This “Ireland as a success story” rhetoric is based on empty spin

In 1984, George Orwell gave us a perfect description of the rhetoric of the Irish government, the European Commission and their hangers-on when promoting Ireland’s bailout exit. He defined doublethink: “To tell deliberate lies, while genuinely believing in them, to forget any

Dec 16, 2013

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