Author: Frank Schnittger

One doesn’t normally look to the economics editor of the Irish Times for great political insight as to what is – or more importantly is not – happening in Ireland at the moment, but Dan O’Brien’s...

In the dim and distant passed I studied a sociologist called Andre Gunder Frank who developed a version of dependency theory whereby international capitalism promoted local comprador bourgeoisie elites to do their dirty work in...

The phrase “We are where we are” has probably become the most dominant and most annoying catch phrase of the Irish general election campaign.  It is used even by those who argue that the Government Bank...

Trends in party political support since the 2007 general election [Update 1/2/11 9.15PM] A new poll has just been published which shows Fine Gael at 30% (-4) and Sinn Fein returning to an earlier high point of 13% (+3). All...

[UPDATE 2, 23/1/11] The Green party ministers have just announced their resignation from the government bringing the number of remaining cabinet ministers down to the constitutional minimum of 7. They have also called for the...