Person: Martin Ford

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Small Business Column: Artificial intelligence and robotics in the workplace

In this week’s column Kehlan looks at the growing influence of artificial intelligence and robotics in the workplace and how nearly half of all human jobs could be obsolete within the next few decades.

What a government might consider (if we had one)

Labour party needs to return to its roots to survive

Some people use a pen to ‘steal’ our money

The people have been robbed of democracy

Sinn Féin will be ruined if they form a coalition

Left must form socialist government

Today is a very historic day for socialism and the Left in Irish politics as the parties of the right have been thrashed at the polls by the voters who have been the victims of austerity by Fine Gael and the Labour Party who are screwing us for water charges and property tax.

Wed, 04 Jun, 2014

Home boys home, in the old country

Next Monday many of our politicians, at taxpayers’ expense, will leave Ireland and abandon their posts for junkets to America and other exotic places to celebrate Ireland’s national holiday, St Patrick’s Day, with the stranger and the foreigners, leaving at home the Irish people who elect them to sink or swim in poverty and recession.

Wed, 12 Mar, 2014

Americans have no right to invade Syria

I am totally against any acts of terrorism, be they small or big as I am a member of Amnesty International. I am totally anti-war and other violence no matter what form it comes in.

Mon, 23 Sep, 2013

Waste of money on G8 security

With the G8 Summit being held in Northern Ireland I cannot understand why my government here in the Republic is sending armed garda units to patrol the border and set up special courts and holding centres for this event, that has nothing to do with us, with money the Irish taxpayers cannot afford.

Wed, 19 Jun, 2013

Labour leaders increasing hardship on people

As a person who voted, canvassed and supported the Irish Labour Party, I’m writing to say how sad and bewildered Iam on how and why Mr Eamon Gilmore, Pat Rabbitte and the leaders of that party are now telling us to vote yes in the Treaty being held on May 31, which will increase our burdens and hardships many times over.

Fri, 18 May, 2012

Trump's £1bn Scottish golf plans thrown out

Donald Trump’s plans for a £1bn (€1.3bn) golf resort and complex in Scotland were today thrown out by councillors.

Thu, 29 Nov, 2007

Sex, gambling and life’s simple pleasures

MARTIN FORD is against a new sex shop and casino in Sligo and seems to think sex is a bad thing (Irish Examiner letters, August 5).

Mon, 14 Aug, 2006

Sex shop and casino are morally wrong

A SEX shop and a casino opened this week in Sligo town. Some may look on this as progress and a step in the right direction while others, like myself, would say that this is a step back.

Sat, 05 Aug, 2006

Parade should be held a day later in future

ON Easter Sunday Christians commemorate Christ's resurrection. Yet the Government chose the holiest day in the Christian calendar to stage a military parade in Dublin.

Mon, 24 Apr, 2006

Junketeers should be ashamed of themselves

HAVE our politicians no sense of duty to their homeland (Irish Examiner, March 10)? Have they no honour and respect for the voters or themselves?

Sat, 11 Mar, 2006

Closing the gates won’t solve a grave problem

LIKE many others, I have parents and grandparents interred in Trinity Cemetery, Sligo.

Fri, 07 Oct, 2005

Good riddance

OUR politicians have taken off on junkets all over the world for St Patrick’s Day — all at the unfortunate taxpayers’ expense.

Thu, 17 Mar, 2005

We need more than Soviet-style radio choice?

NORTH West Radio (NWR) closed down on October 1, or should I say that it was shut down by the Government body - The Broadcasting Commission of Ireland - and in its place we were given Ocean FM.

Fri, 15 Oct, 2004

Independents at an unfair disadvantage

I WISH to protest at the way the Government has now decreed that independent candidates in local elections must get 15 people from their electoral areas to sponsor them.

Fri, 21 May, 2004

Politicians should be at home St Patrick’s Day

HAVE started a petition to give people the opportunity to voice their objection to our politicians leaving Ireland every St Patrick’s Day on the gravy train junkets to America and other places on taxpayers’ money.

Fri, 30 Jan, 2004

Origin of the species

PRESIDENT Bush says his country hopes to send a manned mission to Mars in the next ten years.

Tue, 20 Jan, 2004

Expensive start for the Poor People’s Party

I WISH to establish a new political party. I must have 300 members and 150 of those must be on the voting register before my Poor People’s Party is officially recognised by the state.

Mon, 18 Aug, 2003

How come all aliens land in America?

I AM fed up looking at films about life on other planets and people saying that they were abducted by little green men, taken away in spacecrafts and had tubes stuffed into them.

Sat, 09 Aug, 2003

Guilt by association

IN the Irish Examiner court case reports often refer to defendants as being “unemployed.”

Mon, 07 Jul, 2003

Ex-offenders’ centre is a threat to my town

SOME say it is un-Christian to object to an ex-offenders’ centre in Sligo. I say it is more Christian to say ‘no’ than to be a silent opponent.

Thu, 12 Jun, 2003

All aboard for Patrick’s Day gravy train

ON St Patrick’s Day our politicians will rush like beggars to America.

Sat, 22 Feb, 2003

Stormy reception for Ocean Radio group

I WAS very angered

Fri, 21 Feb, 2003