A new generation of Irishmen are creating a new revolution in Ireland and this time they will not be satisfied with half-measures.” In the run-up to the 1972 Irish referendum on E.E.C. membership, Official Sinn…
Monthly Archives For August 2009
An historic defeat for Fianna Fáil, an historic victory for Fine Gael… but what of Labour?
There’s a certain notion in the air that an election is near inevitable now. And, in one sense hasn’t that always been the case. But, it is correct that the chances of an election this…
Christopher Hayes | The Secret Government
Christopher Hayes | The Secret Government "It is now clear that we are facing an implacable enemy whose avowed objective is world domination by whatever means and at whatever cost. There are no rules in…
Patrick Cockburn | The Truth About The Afghan Election
Patrick Cockburn | The Truth About The Afghan Election President Hamid Karzai is not particularly popular, but as the incumbent he in a strong position, through networks of patronage, to get the support of local…
Compass | Iceland Will Pay What It Can Afford
Compass | Iceland Will Pay What It Can Afford Recent events in Iceland may have completed that countries transformation from free market, credit-fuelled billionaire playground to champion underdog. The Icelandic Parliament’s offer to the UK…
Real News | The Afghan Chessboard
Real News | The Afghan Chessboard Pepe Escobar says that the Afghan presidential election is largely designed to legitimize the US and NATO occupation of parts of the country not controlled by the Taliban. But…
Getting to the Root of Racism and Sectarianism
In May 2007 a 25ft-high peace wall was erected through the grounds of an integrated primary school in North Belfast because houses in the adjacent housing estate had been attacked by youths of the ‘other’…
Che Guevara Lives!*
Communists are even in Paradise. Is a big disgrace! As my regular reader will know, the southern part of the island of Fuerteventura is comprise of the province of Jandía, which is all very beautiful…
The Better-Off Shall Be First: The Recession Diaries – August 25th
John McHale of NUI Galway has produced an outline for a fiscal plan. It is well worth reading. It’s a serious treatment. It’s also an unnerving treatment. For it has the capacity to wreck the…
‘You can have the Kenny report or you can have Nama but you can’t have both’
Writing in today’s Irish Times Fintan O’Toole says that the pricing mechanism envisaged in the NAMA bill will have the effect of producing another property bubble – it will rely on the price of housing…
Murder and Suicide and the Lisbon Treaty
Murder and Suicide and the Lisbon Treaty You don’t have to be a millenarianist to assume that, if the majority of Irish voters say No to Lisbon a second time, the apocalypse won’t be far…
LRB Blog | Self Assembly in Ireland
LRB Blog | Self Assembly in Ireland Ireland bends over backwards to install new IKEA flat-pack furniture store. Clamour for generic Swedish furniture products only slightly smaller than the frenzy amoung the unemployed for entry…
Call Centre Workers in Northern Ireland, Stream and Invest NI
The news that between 450 and 600 jobs are to go in Derry at call centres operated by US-owned outsourcing firm Stream has come as another blow to the economy of Northern Ireland. According to…
Why Is There Such Uncritical Acceptance of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi’s Conviction in the US?
Adbelbaset al-Megrahi walked free yesterday, having been freed on compassionate grounds by the Scottish executive. The US is outraged, as, understandably are many families of victims of the Lockerbie terrorist attack, and everyone, including Scottish…
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