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The Older People’s Uprising, 2008
serves no vested interest’ – mask what Mary Murphy ( 2012 :358) denotes as Ireland’s ‘dominant technocratic ideology’. In other words, economic governance is represented as immune from or transcendent of political dispute, while its role in sustaining social inequality is obscured. Announcing the over-70s scheme, McCreevy reassured the public that in drafting the budget he had duly considered representations from the social partners. From the 1980s, successive governments secured agreement with business, farming and trade union sectors around a regime of low