The 90th anniversary of the execution of Patrick Moran, one of ten Volunteers executed in Mountjoy Prison during the War of Independence, is being marked by a series of events in Dun Laoghaire from Tuesday, March 8th to Monday March 14th, 2011.
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The final photo is one of only two photos known to exist from inside the GPO during the rising.

Earlier yesterday, RTE reported that Sinn Féin would facilitate the passage of the Finance Bill in order to speed up the dissolution of the Dáil.
This is a statement released last night by Pearse Doherty, finance spokesperson for Sinn Féin, which brings clarification to RTE’s news report.

Sinn Féin opposes Finance Bill and calls for election now
Sinn [...]

Of the Cosgrave administration [1923-1932], D.R. O’Connor Lysaght has written: “Irish credit remained dependent on British. Irish credit had to be backed by British credit. Irish currency remained a prettier form of British currency. Irish exporters supplied the British market.” This comprador bourgeois fraction, made up of ranchers, employers, and administrators operated a specific form [...]

And the big difference in twenty years? Money. Lots of it now. Back then, not enough.’ (Aine Lawlor, May 2006)
On 31 May 2006 RTE broadcast a ninety-minute documentary entitled That Was Then, This is Now. It consisted of nine personal reflections on Ireland and the changes the country underwent from 1986 to 2006. The contributors [...]

[This is an extended version of an article which first appeared in Look Left, Summer 2010.]
There are those who will tell you that Ireland has a unique love-affair with property, that home-ownership is part of our DNA - a kind of Celtic mortgage double-helix which drives us to buy houses regardless of cost, need or [...]

I’ll be chairing this talk, which is on this Thursday in The Pearse Centre, 27 Pearse Street, Dublin 2, @ 8pm.
All welcome!
LECTURE SERIES
Ireland in Crisis: Challenging the Consensus
8.00pm, Thursday, 18 November 2010
Speakers: Mary Murphy (Department of Sociology, NUI Maynooth)
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Sam Nolan at 80 from conormccabe on Vimeo.
This is an eighteen-minute video which was made for the occasion of Sam Nolan’s birthday celebration in the Mansion House, which was held on Friday 8 October 2010.
The video is drawn from over eleven hours of Sam in conversation with Mick O’Reilly, former Irish secretary of the ATGWU [...]

It’s a godsend for the wealthy, a real haven.”
In March 1988 Ray McSharry reintroduced section twenty-three tax relief on rental properties. It was listed under section twenty-seven of the Finance Act but retained its name from 1981, when it was first introduced as a stimulus for investment in construction.
The Irish Times reported that the government’s [...]

Today’s announcement brings full clarity to the costs and methods of recapitalising the banks. These costs are fully manageable in the context of the programme of fiscal restraint to which the Government is committed.” (Brian Lenihan, 30 September 2010)
A bank makes money by selling credit. It charges for financial transactions but essentially it makes money [...]