THE 31ST ANNUAL MACGILL SUMMER SCHOOL
Sunday, July 24th to Friday, July 29th inclusive
REFORMING THE REPUBLIC-ISSUES OF POLITICS, ECONOMICS AND ACCOUNTABILITY
The 31st Annual MacGill Summer School will be held in Glenties, Co. Donegal from Sunday, July 24th to Friday, July 29th inclusive.
The school will again be focused on reforming the Republic and will take up where it left off last year when up to sixty speakers dealt with the economic crisis in which the country finds itself and with the urgent need of reform of our institutions-social, economic and political.
Since last July, the economic crisis has, if anything deepened with, in particular, the amount of recapitalisation needed by the banking system steadily growing and the state having had to have recourse to the international Monetary Fund and the European Union in order to meet its daily budgetary requirements and keep the economy afloat.
A new government led by Enda Kenny and Eamon Gilmore has taken power following the General Election of February 25th. The Fine Gael/Labour Coalition in its Programme for Government, Government for National Recovery 2011-2016, commits itself to tackling many of the issues raised at the 2010 MacGill Summer School and contained in the publication, The MacGill Report 2010—Reforming the Republic, launched in December last.
Joe Mulholland
Director
MacGill Summer School