Person: Maeve Halpin

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Readers' Blog: Neoliberal policies create the homeless crises

The tragic and unnecessary deaths of three homeless people again highlight the unconscionable housing situation in this country ‘Housing summit following deaths of homeless’ (Irish Examiner, September 2).

Readers Blog: Explore life’s options in hard times

Studies link poor diets to mental health problems

Corbyn isn’t seeking obscene bailouts or war

Rail privatisation is the road to ruin

Off the rails: train fares in Britain have trebled since privatisation

EU leaders are enforcers of vampiric financial elites

The EU ‘leadership’ has been irrevocably exposed for what it is — local-area enforcers for the self-serving transnational financial elites.

Sat, 18 Jul, 2015

Tax and debts are only for the ‘man on street’

Greece has to pay its debts, but the banks didn’t have to pay theirs — we paid theirs.

Fri, 10 Jul, 2015

The EU is being run by corporate power at the expensive of its citzens

The establishment of the European Economic Community (later the European Union), in 1957, was an extraordinary achievement.

Thu, 02 Jul, 2015

It’s time to heed economists’ warnings

To hear HSBC bank’s chief economist echoing Karl Marx is surely a significant event. At the recent Left Forum in New York, Chris Hedges recalled Marx’s observations on capitalism. 

Fri, 05 Jun, 2015

Politicians breach principles upon which they were elected

Letter writer, Maeve Halpin from Ranelagh recently ended a letter with the following paragraph:

Fri, 29 May, 2015

Removal of water charges from welfare is new low

The threat to take water charges directly from wages and welfare payments (Irish Examiner, Fri May 8) surely marks a new low in the extortion of money from citizens by private and quasi-private corporations.

Sat, 16 May, 2015

We invented money and can create more at will

Greece has a dilemma as to how it will pay its debts, as well as find monies to sustain vital services, infrastructure and incomes.

Thu, 26 Feb, 2015

Islam’s contribution to European values

The growing perception within the last 30 years of a so-called “clash of civilisations” should not obscure our indebtedness to the Islamic world. 

Mon, 19 Jan, 2015

Government will pay for favouring ‘big business’

Letters page correspondent Maeve Halpin nails the neoliberal capitalist myth that open free-marketeering does something for ordinary people.

Thu, 11 Dec, 2014

We need a vote on water

A recent report shows the 19 UK water firms made profits of more than £2.05 billion in 2013, handed out £1.86 bn to shareholders but paid just £74 million in tax. Seven of them paid no corporation tax at all.

Tue, 09 Dec, 2014

Water protestors are just trying to re-balance our unequal society

So despite the best efforts of the great and the good, the Eurozone economy remains stubbornly stagnant (Irish Examiner, Novermber 18).

Mon, 01 Dec, 2014

Workers now becoming homeless because of lack of rent control

News of skyrocketing apartment prices and rents in Dublin (Irish Examiner, October 22) will be cold comfort to the rising number of working people falling into homelessness as a result. 

Sat, 25 Oct, 2014

Water is a vital public utility not a private commodity for flush bankers

Water is the new oil. Mega-banks such as Goldman Sachs, CitiGroup and JP Morgan are buying up water resources, engineering infrastructure and water rights worldwide.

Thu, 16 Oct, 2014

‘Unelected and unaccountable bankers’ effectively ruling world

Any optimism about our “economic recovery” is surely tempered by listening to debates on national radio about whether or not qualified teachers should be paid €50 for a full week’s work.

Mon, 22 Sep, 2014