1. Banks: Why make good banks and bad banks?  In the national spirit, why not have some indifferent banks?  In such a scenario the bank manager would be pretty indifferent when you came in looking for a mortgage.  You ask for a mortgage and he is not sure about it, he’ll think about it and […]

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Ryanair exists because we tolerate/promote competition in the marketplace. We don’t insist on a monopoly. Ryanair flies in and out of Shannon because of this paradigm. If we had government controls preventing airlines operating the same way as, say banks, then airlines like Ryanair would not be working in Ireland. Ryanair don’t do […]

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I am interested in Green issues. I am very interested in what kind of planet we leave to our children. I consider the future health of the planet to be important and I think that science will play a major role in correcting the problems that exist. I have spent some time […]

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The Green Party have recently come out with a statement that they wanted Ireland to be GM-free and not just GM-free, but to also prevent any research into Genetically Modified crops. This is possibly the most ridiculous statement I have heard from a political party in the recent past. I would need to […]

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Was in Leinster House last night for the debate on the Poolbeg incinerator. Funny things incinerators. They have their good points and they have their bad points.
For a start, citing an incinerator in the middle of Dublin seems to me to be one of the strangest decisions that Dublin City Council have ever […]

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…or at least disappearance of the Green Party’s website. Today I googled the Green Party’s website in order to read something about their policies on Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs). On clicking the website link from google, I first seemed to connect to their website, but was redirected to what looks like a Norwegian […]

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