Luxurious all expenses paid trips SIPTU/HSE training fund scandal

By Michael O’Brien (The Socialist July 2010) The investigation being carried out by the HSE into the misuse of some of the €60 million fund negotiated by SIPTU for the upskilling of non-medical staff in the health service show us again the extent to which leading trade union officials have integrated themselves with the establishment.It…

Irish Overseas Broadcasting?

Watching last nights Late Late Show, I was moved by the tributes to the retiring giant of Irish Broadcasting Mícheál Ó Muircheartaigh. Oddly RTÉ decided to treat the story strictly in the GAA realm rather than the realm of his employers business, that being broadcasting (not programme making). There was a tribute from the director…