Ireland’s Fig Leaf
Four months after a historic general election saw Ireland’s right-wing duopoly defeated, the Green Party has decided to return them to office – on a programme that will do nothing to solve the country’s deep inequalities.
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Emma Clancy is an economist specialising in tax justice, eurozone economic policy and feminist economics. She is an advisor to the European United Left (GUE/NGL) in the European Parliament.
Four months after a historic general election saw Ireland’s right-wing duopoly defeated, the Green Party has decided to return them to office – on a programme that will do nothing to solve the country’s deep inequalities.
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