Dear TD/Senator,
I write to demand that the so-called “debt” of 1.25bn Euro (one billion, two hundred and fifty million) due to be paid to UNSECURED Anglo bondholders be not paid.
Since the Irish people had no hand in this debt; we do not consent to paying it. Since the Irish people will not benefit from its [...]

Dear TDs, Senators, and MEPs,
As a gesture of goodwill towards the families across the country dependent on the assistance of the Saint Vincent De Paul, I ask that those of you in receipt of Children’s Allowance donate your December payment to the SVP urgent Christmas appeal which was launched on 21 [...]

Here’s a song and message from Gary Dunne.
Hi all,
I have pledged, to myself and to those who like my music, to release a new track every month in 2011.
This is the first of them – ‘What Kind Of Country Are We Living In?’

The track was written in late Dec 2010, in response to the [...]

Dear TDs,
It’s time for an election. It really is.
How long more can this charade of pretending you have a mandate from the “people” go on? You never had a mandate from the people in the first place - at most you had about 41% of a mandate from the 40% that voted [...]

Update: Simon McGarr of the Tuppenceworth.ie blog has set up a Facebook group to argue for the diplomatic expulsion of the Papal Nuncio from Ireland. He also provides two sample letters to send to either Ministers or TDs about this affair. Here is a PDF copy of the sample letters which you can amend  [...]

“I am totally depressed as I believe a huge amount of work has been totally undone … support structures to assist the most vulnerable have been undermined, which will mean that discipline and pastoral care structures will be affected”
Principal, boys’ secondary school, Leinster
The Association of Secondary Teachers of Ireland (ASTI) has published a report into [...]

Since we have not reached the level of commercialism in our schools that pervade an education system such as the American one, perhaps now is the time to begin the fight against the commercialism that is present, before it becomes too much to be countered.
During the last academic year, I responded to Tesco’s “Computers for [...]