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national / history and heritage Thursday May 02, 2013 - 11:41 by Pádraig Ó Ruairc.
 1 comment (last - friday october 11, 2013 - 09:08)
Hello All - Here is my review of the controversial TV3 Irish War of Independence documentary "In the Name of the Republic" which was presented by Prof. Eunan O'Halpin of Trinity College which has just been published in the May/June issue of History Ireland Magazine. Enjoy: IRA leader, Tom Barry, once likened the more unsavory aspects of the War of Independence to being dragged “down into the mire”. The two-part documentary, 'In The Name of The Republic', presented by Professor Eunan O'Halpin, explored that mire by examining the uglier aspects of the period. These included the assassination of RIC men, the killings of unarmed British soldiers and the execution and secret burial of alleged British spies. The first episode focused on Ashbrook Farm, Laois. The owner of the farm related how a predecessor, Jack Walpole, told him that three bodies were dumped there in the 1920's. Walpole, who was described as “a bit eccentric”, claimed to have buried one of the bodies himself. The supernatural was a strong feature of Walpole's tale and he stated his horse could sense the location of the graves, refusing to draw a plough over them. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Thursday May 02, 2013 - 06:42 by dubaltg8
11 comments (last - monday may 13, 2013 - 20:20)
In his Ceasefire review, Dan Glazebrook examines Maximilian Forte's withering indictment of liberal humanitarianism and its collusion in imperialist designs on Africa, as seen in NATO's Libya campaign of 2011. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / sci-tech Wednesday May 01, 2013 - 18:35 by Caoimhghin Ó Croidheáin
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Just as we are seeing climate chaos change to climate catastrophe, we may also see job chaos change to job catastrophe. We are entering an era of technological change which has the potential to create havoc in an already seriously undermined world of employment. It has become a well-worn cliché to declare that the robots are coming but it is necessary to consider seriously how the creeping technologisation of production and services is going to affect many areas of employment considered today to be relatively safe from the machines. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Wednesday May 01, 2013 - 05:00 by Anthony Ravlich
Includes a brief description of neoliberal absolutism and a plan for youth to fight for their individual rights in a globalized world requiring a global ethical human rights approach. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Tuesday April 30, 2013 - 11:44 by Gavin R. Putland
It's possible to shift the tax burden from labour to consumption without raising prices or widening after-tax wages relativities. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Tuesday April 30, 2013 - 11:29 by Paddy Hackett
9 comments (last - friday may 03, 2013 - 14:39)
The current Minister of Agriculture is forever defending the farming community while his government are forever attacking the Irish working class. The farming community must be exposed as a parasitic category. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Monday April 29, 2013 - 12:32 by ...
Cheap clothes in Pennys = cheap lives in Bangladesh ... read full story / add a comment 
international / public consultation / irish social forum Sunday April 28, 2013 - 16:03 by Brian Clarke
14 comments (last - thursday january 16, 2014 - 18:43) 6 images  3 video files
As someone who grew up in the culture of child abuse in east Galway, which now seems to be leading the country's policy on abortion or more accurately the lack thereof, I have always wanted to ask two principal questions, primarily to the enablers of systemic child abuse in Ireland. Currently despite all the publicity about the culture of child rape in Ireland, the priority is the protection of the unborn to the detriment of the already born. I ask any decent person, if there still exists such a specimen on our island, with an ounce of nature left in them, to think about what I have written and have the courage to make a reply, that makes sense without getting personal. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday April 28, 2013 - 11:28 by luke eastwood
The time to do something is always now! ... read full story / add a comment 
international / environment Saturday April 27, 2013 - 13:49 by Against Cruelty to Irish Greyhounds
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Animal welfare groups and greyhound protection organizations are appalled at the deliberate cruelty to greyhounds in Ireland revealed in the course of a recent court case, where a man admitted getting someone to shot two greyhounds that refused to chase hares (link to item on case below) ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Saturday April 27, 2013 - 07:52 by Brian Clarke
2 comments (last - saturday april 27, 2013 - 10:10) 2 images 1 video file
In his book "Born Free and Equal" : Ansel Adams documented life in internment camps, set up during the second world war for the Japanese. Internment of civilian nationals was also carried out in World War Two in Britain, where all Germans, Austrians over the age of 16 and some Italians, were called before special tribunals and divided into one of three groups: ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Thursday April 18, 2013 - 00:12 by Brian Clarke
18 comments (last - thursday december 05, 2013 - 16:37) 3 images 2 video files
The human suffering in British Occupied Ireland, by elderly political internees like Marian Price and Martin Corey, is markedly similar to the political internment, introduced forty years ago by the British, which escalated from crisis to disaster, culminating in the deaths of 10 Irish hunger strikers. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / rights, freedoms and repression Tuesday April 16, 2013 - 13:10 by Brian Clarke
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John Pilger is I believe, one of the few remaining ethical mainstream journalists, who reports accurately and truthfully. The elite currently own the Mainstream Stream Media, the Government and the Banking system. The proletarian 99% of "1984"continue to require but bread and circus. It seems like, it is probably all they will ever want while watching TV. The ruling elite or establishment worldwide know this, they have always known this. ... read full story / add a comment 
international / anti-war / imperialism Tuesday April 16, 2013 - 02:46 by fred
16 comments (last - friday may 31, 2013 - 22:26) 8 images 2 video files  1 audio file
Today, for a brief moment, America knows how awful it feels to live in one of the states they have invaded or that they have helped reduce to sectarian nightmares with imported jihadist mercenaries, CIA advisors, funds and weaponry, such as Iraq, Syria or Libya, where explosions like this occur every other day
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national / miscellaneous Thursday April 11, 2013 - 12:26 by Gan Ainm
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Fifteen years on from the signing of the ‘Good Friday Agreement’ it is imperative that Irish Republicans and the people of Ireland give careful consideration to the merits, mechanisms and leftovers of what was offered to the country that reportedly historic day. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 08, 2013 - 21:19 by Gale Vogel
26 comments (last - thursday may 29, 2014 - 13:59)
What is a day in the life of people living in Ireland today? If we're lucky we awake to the stress of travelling to work, breakfast and getting the children ready for school. What of those who do not have this luck? ... read full story / add a comment 
dublin / miscellaneous Monday April 08, 2013 - 14:35 by Lover
14 comments (last - saturday april 13, 2013 - 01:00) 6 images 1 video file
I know various parts of Britain are hosting gatherings to remember the dark legacy of Maggies reign but I think that in Dublin we should all come together tonight on O Connell Street to collectively remember all effected by the woman, particularly the hunger strikers, shoot to kill victims, Argentines, miners the list goes on. SO just throwing it out there and open to suggestions but this occassion should not pass with out challenging the message that Thatcher represented. Needless to say the media will be quick to have revised sanitised versions of her life being beamed over the airwaves. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-capitalism Sunday April 07, 2013 - 20:37 by Brian Clarke
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Chomsky spent an inordinate amount of time on climate change, in Dublin, which a small part of environmental damage, resulting from the current unregulated greed of capitalism, without any sense of social responsibility particularly in contemporary Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday April 07, 2013 - 13:13 by Fidel Castro
A few days ago I mentioned the great challenges humanity is currently facing. Intelligent life emerged on our planet approximately 200,000 years ago, although new discoveries demonstrate something else. This is not to confuse intelligent life with the existence of life which, from its elemental forms in our solar system, emerged millions of years ago. A virtually infinite number of life forms exist. In the sophisticated work of the world’s most eminent scientists the idea has already been conceived of reproducing the sounds which followed the Big Bang, the great explosion which took place more than 13.7 billion years ago. This introduction would be too extensive if it was not to explain the gravity of an event as unbelievable and absurd as the situation created in the Korean Peninsula, within a geographic area containing close to five billion of the seven billion persons currently inhabiting the planet. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday April 07, 2013 - 12:58 by Maryam Namazie
The AP has revised its stylebook to no longer include the term Islamist. They explain why: "Islamist” is frequently used as a label for conservative Islamic political movements, particularly Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood . It generally carries a negative connotation" Has the AP thought that maybe it carries a negative connotation because fascistic movements – religious or otherwise – generally do? The disgusting Council on American-Islamic Relations which has previously lobbied AP to drop the term because they say it ”has become shorthand for ‘Muslims we don’t like’” and “is currently used in an almost exclusively pejorative context” is elated: We believe this revision is a step in the right direction and will result in fewer negative generalizations in coverage of issues related to Islam and Muslims." ... read full story / add a comment |
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