Friday, Jan 27th 2012
Thomas Jones | Married to that Mob
Thomas Jones talks about political corruption in Italy and Britain and compares relations between Tessa Jowell and her estranged husband David Mills (who is accused of receiving £344,000 from Berlusconi ‘in return for the well-spun evidence he gave in two corruption trials involving the Italian prime minister in the [...]
Daniel Finn | The Higher the Monkey Climbs
Daniel Finn, sometimes of this parish, on the recent elections in Ireland, the collapse in the FF vote and the Aherns bunking in to the Looking For Eric premier…
“Worst of all, perhaps, was the debacle in Dublin’s north inner city: in the general election two years ago Fianna [...]
John Caruso on the George W. Obama Speech in Cairo and the Habit of Skepticism
Caruso rereads Obama’s Cairo speech and realizes that his first reading was too harsh. Or maybe he was just reading the wrong speech.
“Yes, it was quite a speech. After reading it a second time I think I can almost [...]
I Flap My Wings and Fly Like Icarus!!
Si, is the great news that Real Madrid the Best Team in the World have deigned to sign from the useless Manchester waste-of-space-can’t-even-beat-Barcelona team their only decent player, Cronaldo of Portugal (which historically belong to Spain). He is will play alongside the Brazilian genius Kaka, who will also [...]
The Kenny Report, the official title of which is “COMMITTEE ON THE PRICE OF BUILDING LAND, REPORT TO THE MINISTER FOR LOCAL GOVERNMENT ROBERT MOLLOY, CHAIRMAN MR. JUSTICE J. KENNY (DUBLIN,1974), was begun in 1971 and finally published in 1974. Its findings have never been implemented.
Its recommendations formed part of the Green Party’s general election [...]
Despite the election of Fine Gael’s blow-in candidate George ‘TV’ Lee in Dublin South, in a by-election Labour thought they had sewn up only weeks beforehand, the recent bout of elections have given the left much to cheer in the capital.
In Dublin Central, independent Maureen O’Sullivan retained the seat of her mentor, the late Tony [...]
Join the March of Solidarity Organised by SOIAI on June 10th and Sign the Petition
A silent March of Solidarity with survivors of the institutional child abuse crimes detailed in the Ryan Report, which have shamed and appalled the country, will be held in Dublin on June 10 at noon.
The march is being organised by Survivors [...]
I want to expand on my thoughts about ‘tough times’ and the rhetoric we’ve heard about how the government has to impose ‘tough measures’, either in cuts in the public sector and services (which, given how small our PS/CS is relative to other states is essentially synonymous in most instances), or impose further taxes. Or [...]
Joe Higgin’s Election as MEP
Brian Greene has lots of audio (including singing!!) and images of Joe Higgin’s victory. As Brian says himself
“The Great Anti-Theft Movement had a major boost, the workers movement has a Marxist MEP in the European Parliament. From Lispole Co. Kerry, The Dublin West Socialist Party (CWI) Joe Higgins was elected after [...]
Euro Election Analysis | The Guardian
The British Labour Party flatlines in the Euro elections. Kettle says they no longer have the authority to govern.
“For Labour it has never been worse that this. Labour has never polled under 20% in a nationwide election in its history. The closest it came was 22.6% in the European elections [...]
