Michael Noonan – Peter Geoghegan

LRB Blog: A Moment of Clarity

By peterPosted on 7th June 2012Posted in Economics, Ireland, London Review of Books, PoliticsTagged Michael Noonan, Political World

On Wednesday afternoon, excerpts from a speech by the Irish finance minister Michael Noonan to the Bloomberg Ireland Economic Summit in Dublin, purportedly copied from the Irish Times website, appeared on PoliticalWorld.org. The contributor, PaddyJoe, accused the newspaper of removing a paragraph from an earlier version of the story, in which Noonan, speaking about the […]

Irish Emigration is No Lifestyle Choice

By peterPosted on 2nd February 2012Posted in Ireland, Irish Post, Politics, Society and CultureTagged Irish Emigration, Michael Noonan

Every St Stephen’s Day I play soccer with a group of school friends in Longford, my hometown. It’s not a pretty sight – 22 over-fed men, their prime fast disappearing over the horizon, huffing and puffing on the local Gaelic pitch – but it’s been a tradition for well over a decade, and old traditions […]