"The Corporate Takeover of Ireland examines the effects corporations have on lrish life and shows how democratic decision making has been subverted by money. Efforts to ban advertising to children and to restrict promotion of alcohol have been prevented by large global corporations. lrish universities are increasingly run on the model of a corporation and their research work is being put at the service of major pharmaceutical firms. A new medical apartheid is being created in health as huge US health corporations stand ready to move into the private healthcare market. Waste collection is no longer organised as a public service but is being turned into big business. State enterprises such as Aer Lingus have been handed over to private investors." "The Corporate Takeover of lreland calls for a new movement of resistance that will put people before profit and bring about more genuine democracy."--Jacket.