Greaves School 9,10 September

Friday 9 September 7.30 pm

The international economic crisis: Making the periphery pay

Fred Magdoff, Professor Emeritus, University of Vermont; director of the Monthly Review Foundation; has written on The Explosion of Debt and Speculation anthe current financial crisis in America’s leading radical journal, Monthly Review.

Chair: Catherine Connolly,Galway City Councillor and barrister.

Saturday 10 September 11.00 am

Is Ireland a Democratic Republic?

Sinead Pentony, Head of Policy, Think-Tank for Action on Social Change (TASC). Kevin McCorry, solicitor, former organiser of NICRA. Harry Browne, Lecturer, School of Media Studies, DIT ; former journalist with The Irish Times.

Chair: Fionnula Ui Brogáin,

Saturday 10 September 2.00 pm

Ireland and the Eurozone crisis

Anthony Coughlan, Director, The National Platform EU Research and Information Centre.
Fabio de Masi, Consultant to the chief economist of the Die Linke party in the German Bundestag. Chair: Karen Devine, School of Law and Government, DCU.

Sunday 11 September 11.00 am

An All-Ireland Economic Area: Does it make sense?

Peadar Toibín TD, Sinn Fein Dáil member for Meath West. Peter Bunting, Assistant General Secretary, Irish Congress of Trade Unions, with responsibility for
Northern Ireland. John Bradley, former Research Professor, Economic and Social Research Institute; international research consultant on economic development strategies. Chair: Robert Ballagh, President of the Ireland Institute; artist.

Sunday 11 September 2.00 pm

Where is contemporary capitalism going?

Richard Douthwaite, Co-founder of Feasta (Foundation for the Economics of Sustainability); author of The Growth Illusion, The Ecology of Money etc. Kieran Allen, Senior Lecturer, School of Sociology, UCD; author of Ireland’s Economic Crash, The Corporate Takeover of Ireland etc. Mary Cullen, Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies, TCD; former Senior Lecturer in Modern History, NUI, Maynooth.

Chair: Catherine Murphy TD,
Independent Dáil member for Kildare North.