Since the European Union entails the free movement of capital, fiscal and labour sovereignty had to be ceded. This was one of the most important criticisms from the left regarding the way a perfect European Union was being built for bringing an end to the welfare state of each one of its members. If you [...]

It didn’t take long.  Patrick Nulty, TD voted against the budget on Tuesday night.  Suddenly, on Thursday morning an op-ed appears in the Irish Times attacking the young TD.  And not just ‘attacking’ - it is one of the most vicious attacks on an individual TD you’ll read on an issue of policy.  After all, Nulty [...]

The Irish Times is often referred to as the quality newspaper in Ireland. It enjoys a wide readership with a reported circulation of over 120,000 for the period between July and December 2010. Even the use of the word “Times” in the title would seem to suggest a shared lineage with the Times of London. [...]

On December 3rd, 2011, the Spectacle of Defiance and Hope came out on the streets of Dublin to protest the devastation of the community sector. People brought their books of grievances and hopes just as what happened before the French Revolution.

Update: The Irish Times has apologised….to the Communications Clinic.
And the courage of Broadsheet.ie
The Irish Times publishes an article by Kate Fitzgerald, published anonymously, which they obviously are perfectly happy with. The editor is experienced enough to know which articles or statements need to be vetted by their legal team in order to avoid putting [...]

Worth highlighting…
Two UCD students Aoife O’Neill and Michael Smalle recently completed an extended interview with Padraig Yeates, author of Lockout: Dublin 1913, which has now gone viral (in the nicest possible way).
The full audio version is on: http://soundcloud.com/the-1913-lockout
The edited Video Chapters are on: http://www.youtube.com/user/lockoutwiki

David published this on Arab Spring in My Step last night.
Just back from reporting from Tahrir.
It was dark, heaving with people, tear gas swirling in the air, the sound of street battles on the side streets - sometimes very tense, sometimes bursting with excitement.
This is not the forum for a long detailed look at [...]

If Darren Scully, the Fine Gael mayor of Naas, was feeling ‘sad’ yesterday, there is every chance his melancholy has taken a turn for the worse as today has progressed. Yesterday Cllr Scully was ‘sad’ preemptively, in case anyone would think him racist for refusing to deal with ‘Black Africans’ because of their ‘aggressive attitude‘. [...]

Women make up almost 50% of the population. Yet astonishingly, only 15.1% of TDs in the Dáil are women.
The 2011 general election was one of the most dramatic in recent history, with a record 84 seats changing hands. Despite this fact the number of women elected only increased marginally on the 2007 general election. In 2007 [...]

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Next month will see the latest in a series of vicious budgets entailing almost four billion euro in spending cuts and tax increases. In the days preceding this calamity, Taoiseach Enda Kenny is scheduled to address the nation on television to offer words of comfort and inspiration. The text [...]