If yesterday’s Paddy Power opinion poll is anything to go by, the result of next weeks Donegal South West by-election could herald a greater degree of electoral and political change than previously anticipated.
500 voters from across the constituency were asked to state their preferences for the by-election, for a future general election and for [...]

From In The Museums
in the money museum
they have the skeleton
of a fund manager
his joints are wired
like nature
he articulates perfectly
above our heads
he swings
like a fiscal acrobat
over the banks
of carefully conserved
legal tender
folding money
& plastic money
& specie
but at night he weeps
the pity of it
tender rain
on the glass screens
his weird sobbing
his bones tinkling
the derivatives he cries
the private equity
the toxic [...]

Original article: Pierre Barbancey for L’Huamanite, translated by David Lundy

Dublin is proud to take austerity measures worthy of the IMF to avoid a Grecian bailout. Workers will foot the bill.
The Irish government and its central bank governor are upset. Worried about the ability of the government to pass next month’s budget, the first of [...]

On Monday the 15th of November last I interviewed Joanne Spain, Sinn Féin’s economic advisor and party strategy manager. The interview dealt first with Sinn Féin’s pre-Budget submission, which unlike those of the other main parties in the Dáil argues that the deficit must be closed not through cuts but by providing a properly [...]

Risteard O’Dohmnaill’s film The Pipe encapsulates the balance of power in this shambolic republic - on the one hand the not inconsiderable determination and strength both personal and communal of ordinary people, and on the other the massive force of the state as expressed by the police, the judiciary, the army, the navy, the transnational [...]

Dear Friends,

In addressing you today, I wish to draw your attention to the background of Monsanto, a company whose name and products are held in contempt not only within the United States, but also in every country where it has offices, its products sold and used. The reason for the contempt goes back [...]

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)
[...]

In the midst of the current recession, it is crucial we do not forget those amongst us who most need our support. One such group includes the victims of domestic violence. In this respect, the `16 days of Action´ campaign to highlight the horrific levels of domestic abuse of women deserves support from us all.
On [...]

Interview:
Dave Lordan: You’ve just put out ‘A Sacrament of Song’ with Kit Fryatt’s Wurm Press. It’s a brilliantly uplifting chapbook. Tell us a bit about it?
Karl Parkinson: Well, firstly, I’m very happy that Wurm have done this for me. I’d like to think that it is uplifting and as the title suggests, [...]

Even their interior designer does not think much of the Tories!!
I have no doubt that you share my bone-shivering outrage and anger and also fist-clenching teeth-grinding mouth-foaming hair-splitting frustration at the failures of the police in both Ireland and England to kill any atheist communist students over the past 20 years [...]