Lise Hand: Dail extends its Christmas break because 'worst is over' [Independent.ie]
- Published: 16 December 2009
We've turned the corner. Weathered the tempest. Clawed our way out of the abyss. Found the brakes on the runaway bobsleigh. Like Pam Ewing waking up to find Bobby in the shower, the Government appears to be taken by the notion that the whole economic car-crash was all a bad dream.
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Government slammed over budget cuts [Independent.ie]
- Published: 16 December 2009
Angry unions have accused the Government of crashing social partnership and torching the wreckage with savage budget cuts.
Around 600 public sector workers protested outside the Dail as TDs inside the Chamber prepared to slash their wages by up to 15%.
Sheila Nunan, of the Irish National Teachers' Organisation (INTO), said public servants rejected being scapegoated in the budget.
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Response to clerical child abuse report [IrishTimes]
- Published: 16 December 2009
Madam, – Mary Raftery (Opinion, December 15th) writes that “as a society, we have chosen to give these bishops enormous and unaccountable power over our education system”. This situation would be viewed as farcical if it weren’t so horrifying. As a nation we must immediately move to terminate this relationship between the Roman Catholic Church and education.
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Civil servants protest pay cut outside Dáil [IrishExaminer]
- Published: 15 December 2009
The general secretary of the Irish Congress of Trade Unions David Begg said the hallmark of the Budget was "unfairness" because it targeted public servants but left the wealthy untouched.
Unions: Budget torches social partnership wreckage [IrishExaminer]
- Published: 15 December 2009
Around 600 public sector workers protested outside the Dáil as TDs inside the Chamber prepared to slash their wages by up to 15%.
Sheila Nunan, of the Irish National Teachers’ Organisation (INTO), said public servants rejected being scapegoated in the budget.
