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		<title>The blog&#8217;s now moved to conductunbecoming.ie</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve finally got around to getting my own domain name for the blog, and from now on you can find it at www.conductunbecoming.ie. If you&#8217;re reading this on an RSS reader, you can update your feed to: feed://www.conductunbecoming.ie/?feed=rss2 I&#8217;ve also got a new post up on the blog at the new address, titled The Ethics and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conductunbecoming.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4041104&amp;post=182&amp;subd=conductunbecoming&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Green Bonds Could Reduce Government Borrowing Costs Too</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 18:27:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post has been updated and moved to the blog&#8217;s new domain, conductunbecoming.ie, and you can find it here. After my post a few weeks ago proposing a form of emissions-linked government bond which I called a &#8216;green bond&#8217;, I&#8217;ve realised an unintended benefit that the green bonds would bring to any government that issues them: [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conductunbecoming.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4041104&amp;post=173&amp;subd=conductunbecoming&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Want to show the public and the markets that you&#8217;re taking the economic crisis seriously, Mr Cowen? Then appoint Jim O&#8217;Hara to the cabinet.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 15:42:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>owenrooney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post has been updated and moved to the blog&#8217;s new domain, conductunbecoming.ie, and you can find it here. While bouncing from economic crises to political crises and back again at an astounding rate, Brian Cowen has stumbled upon a brief opportunity to make a move that would reflect well both upon himself politically, and give [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conductunbecoming.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4041104&amp;post=151&amp;subd=conductunbecoming&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Green Bonds: Setting long-term incentives for emission reductions</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 19:29:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post has been updated and moved to the blog&#8217;s new domain, conductunbecoming.ie, and you can find it here. With the Copenhagen climate change convention coming up next month, many governments such as ours are looking for ways to demonstrate their commitment to long-term cuts in carbon emissions. Unfortunately, very few of these are anything [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conductunbecoming.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4041104&amp;post=144&amp;subd=conductunbecoming&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>House Prices &#8211; 27% Decline Yet To Come?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 16:50:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>owenrooney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post has been updated and moved to the blog&#8217;s new domain, conductunbecoming.ie, and you can find it here. For one reason or another, the housing market has been on my mind recently, and in particular the various guesstimates of how much further house prices have to drop, or if they&#8217;ve already bottomed out, as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conductunbecoming.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4041104&amp;post=129&amp;subd=conductunbecoming&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Abolishing the Seanad</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 18:31:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>owenrooney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post has been updated and moved to the blog&#8217;s new domain, conductunbecoming.ie, and you can find it here. Fine Gael last night announced that, if elected, they&#8217;ll hold a referendum to abolish the Seanad. Right now is probably the perfect time to talk about reform of the way our system of government operates, as [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conductunbecoming.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4041104&amp;post=125&amp;subd=conductunbecoming&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Healy-Rae Criterion and Reforming Irish Politics</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 14:16:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Healy-Rae Criterion and Reforming Irish Politics kdsvadjhf Hence, I propose a simple criterion to be applied to all proposals for reform of the Irish political system: If Jackie Healy-Rae still gets elected to the national legislature under the new system, the reform hasn&#8217;t worked. I don&#8217;t mean this to be an attack on Mr [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conductunbecoming.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4041104&amp;post=104&amp;subd=conductunbecoming&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>In Defense Of Free Speech</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 22:57:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post has been updated and moved to the blog&#8217;s new domain, conductunbecoming.ie, and you can find it here. One of the greatest shames of the modern world is that, despite all our progress, there are still people who would deny the holocaust, there are still groups who preach religious hatred and violence and there [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conductunbecoming.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4041104&amp;post=95&amp;subd=conductunbecoming&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A New Approach Needed For Alcohol Licensing</title>
		<link>http://conductunbecoming.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/alcohollicensing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:53:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>owenrooney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The attitude toward alcohol of many people in Ireland is, unfortunately, an irresponsible, unhealthy and antisocial one. We have some of the highest rates of  binge drinking and alcohol-related violence in Europe, yet perhaps the greater problem is that the entire basis on which our government attempts to 'tackle' drinking problems, from the intoxicating liquor bill of 1927 to its most recent amendment last year, has been to forego the carrot in favour of the stick, and 'crack down' on excessive drinking rather than encourage people to drink more responsibly. This view is not just held by the government itself, but also by opposition parties who routinely compete to look tougher on binge drinking and alcohol problems, with rarely a whisper on how to deal with them as the social and public health issues which they are. It is this fundamental misunderstanding, and even denial, of the realities of the situation by every political party in the country that has led to increasingly short-sighted and counter-productive attempts to address the problems.

We are in dire need of a new approach to the matter of alcohol licensing and alcohol laws, and how they affect the attitude the public has towards drinking. We must avoid the overly-simple view of young people's attitudes towards alcohol that dominate current debate and look at the facts as they are to come up with a solution that accepts the realities of our current situation rather than glosses over them. Above all, we have to accept that there is no quick fix for the alcohol-related problems affecting our society and that it could be a generation before any truly progressive reform brings us to where we need to be. Our society and our culture will need a seismic shift, and that can only be achieved by a similar shift in the way in which the government approaches our problems.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conductunbecoming.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4041104&amp;post=65&amp;subd=conductunbecoming&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How Haughey Lost The Lisbon Campaign, And What The Government Can Do About It</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:01:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>owenrooney</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Lisbon Treaty referendum last year could be described in pretty much every way as a complete and utter mess. The government put a long and complicated international treaty to referendum, through an unintelligible constitutional amendment, then completely failed to convey the actual implications in a clear and concise manner. The No campaigners proceeded to engage in scare tactics on a myriad of topics almost completely unrelated to the treaty, while the European institutions themselves showed a shocking lack of understanding of the Irish electorate throughout the campaign. The voters, understandably, refused to vote for something they couldn't possibly be expected to understand, and the Lisbon Treaty has been in limbo ever since.

Oddly enough, the person most responsible for the whole debacle isn't in fact any of the above, but rather a man who died before the Lisbon Treaty was ever written; Mr Charles J Haughey.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=conductunbecoming.wordpress.com&amp;blog=4041104&amp;post=31&amp;subd=conductunbecoming&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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