by Brendan Ogle | May 28, 2020 | Austerity
2012 Dublin demonstration against austerity As the EU line up to kick Ireland again, unions must lead in defending jobs, sustainable Irish business & provision of improved public services Brendan Ogle: As the ESRI predict the worst recession...
by Brendan Ogle | Jan 13, 2020 | Election 2020
The General Election is already effectively underway and it looks like it will be formally announced in the coming days. It’s already being pitched by the media as a presidential style election whose main purpose will be to decide if Leo Varadkar or...
by Brendan Ogle | Dec 12, 2019 | Jeremy Corbyn
Brendan Ogle’s latest blog on the UK General Election “in an era of Prime Minister Boris Johnson and President Donald Trump, in a world which has swung inexorably to the right and where greed is now considered not only good but great, finding a person...
by Brendan Ogle | Dec 6, 2019 | Peter McVerry Trust
New Blog by Brendan Ogle. This week we had an emergency debate on a vote of no confidence in the Minister responsible for that emergency, Eoghan Murphy. Just days before we had four by-elections where barely one quarter of the electorate bothered...
by Brendan Ogle | Nov 4, 2019 | Direct Provision
Brendan Ogle: On Saturday, I was to speak at the 35th Anniversary of a stellar event when we Irish stood up against racism. It was when eleven young Dunnes Stores workers in Dublin refused to handle South African goods to highlight the then system...
