Friday, Jan 27th 2012
Speaking in relation to loyalist paramilitary decommissioning, First Minister, Peter Robinson, stated recently that devolution should benefit working class loyalist communities as much as it does the ‘business community’.
According to Mr Robinson “Devolution isn’t there to help the business community alone. It’s there to help every section of our society.” (Newsletter, 19th June) How does [...]
It is no coincidence that the Lisbon Treaty, so strongly opposed by the far-right, has won support from the overwhelming majority of Socialist parties across Europe and from the European Trade Union Confederation (which groups together virtually all trade unions across Europe). The values and objectives set out in it are ones that are shared [...]
Gareth Pierce | The Framing of al-Megrahi
Although the crime was the most hideous Scotland had ever known, the integrity of the crime scene was violated; in part because outsiders were conducting a desperate search for wreckage that it was important for them to find and spirit away. As many police investigations over the years have [...]
John Greyson’s entirely reasonable decision to protest the Toronto International Film Festival’s City-to-City spotlight on Tel-Aviv (and the supporting letter from a group of activists, artists and intellectuals such as Naomi Klein, Jane Fonda and Slavoj Zizek) has been predictably distorted and misrepresented by Israel’s backers. Greyson cites the war in Gaza (for which both [...]
WHERE WILL YOU BE ON SEPTEMBER 30TH?
Where Will You Be On September 30th? from DCTV on Vimeo.
This government is already slashing a range of services and programmes. Now, after McCarthy Report, the Community Sector is going to become the focus for their guillotine approach to funding. Already a number of areas have had their budgets [...]
Below is the Brian Lucey interview on Morning Ireland (6:40 mins in) and the full speech given last night by Joan Burton as part of the NAMA debate.
As pointed out by Karl Whelan it is only now, after prompting, that we are finding out how it is expected that NAMA will ‘cover it’s costs’: [...]
Donagh writes:
As Nat O’Connor on Progressive Economy pointed out, the NAMA Bill does not define what ‘systemically important’ means, when it states: “The Minister shall not designate an applicant credit institution as a participating institution unless he or she is satisfied that— (a) the applicant credit institution is systemically important to the financial system in [...]
As part of its awareness raising campaign, EAPN Ireland has published a three minute motion-graphic entitled ‘the Lisbon Treaty’s Social Side’ (see below). The production aims to give a brief overview of how the Lisbon Treaty impacts on social issues and the direction of the European Union.
“EAPN Ireland is concerned that the campaign is [...]
Pleasures of Underachievement | Disco Infernal
Seanachie of Pleasures of Underachievement, and this parish, on Tony Manero, a movie about a Chilean man obsessed with Saturday Night Fever who descends into crime while trying to win a Tony Manero impersonating contest:
But Tony Manero is a far more scabrous, unobliging work, an ill-mannered riposte to the idea [...]
Even the Devil Wear Prada!
How would you feel as a true-born pious devout Spanish nobleman to learn that when you die your God-given title will be inherit by a woman? More than likely you will spuke up your breakfast of truffle yogurt and napolitana all over the hunting dogs and your daily copy of ABC. [...]
