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international / eu Friday April 17, 2009 - 13:11 by Lemuel Gulliver IV
While European Commission President José Manuel Barroso is concerned that the Lisbon Treaty has fallen hostage to "domestic problems" in the Czech Republic, humanist Jan Tamáš spoke at the recent NATO counter-summit to outline the NATO-related defence issues that undermined the government. The Lisbon Treaty now faces a stormy course to approval. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Friday April 17, 2009 - 12:21 by PADDY HACKETT
 9 comments (last - tuesday april 21, 2009 - 18:50)
The Irish budget deficit has rapidly grown to an enormous size. The growing budget deficit is a symptom of the deepening global economic crisis. It is not the cause of it. The crisis can only be solved by eliminating its cause --capitalism. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Friday April 17, 2009 - 01:14 by Philip O' Rourke
12 comments (last - saturday april 25, 2009 - 02:00)
When I was young we used to be out from 10 o'clock in the morning til 10 o' clock at night. The boys would be playing football while the girls would be making up dance routines or talking about the boys they fancied. Times have changed? But what has changed them? ... read full story / add a comment
national / eu Wednesday April 15, 2009 - 13:44 by Richard Whelan
25 comments (last - wednesday june 11, 2014 - 21:48)
The Lisbon Treaty was rejected by Irish voters last year, amidst the backdrop of an inept Government, a No campaign run by vested interests and a general level of ignorance as regards content of the Treaty. These are the reasons why we should vote Yes, why we shouldn't trust No campaigners and how the Lisbon Treaty is our ticket to a more transparent and democratic Europe, with Ireland at the centre of a stronger EU. ... read full story / add a comment
international / environment Monday April 13, 2009 - 23:33 by Richard Whelan
76 comments (last - sunday january 30, 2011 - 18:26)  8 images  5 video files
The ever increasing threat of Global Warming, and how we must do all in our power to give back what we have taken from the planet, before it is too late for all of us. ... read full story / add a comment
international / miscellaneous Monday April 13, 2009 - 22:47 by Philip O' Rourke
5 comments (last - thursday april 16, 2009 - 20:07)
My view on the world and all its moaning about the financial diffuculties we apparently face now. Its a total farce and it is the media putting negative thoughts into our heads, and I for one i'm not that easily swayed. ... read full story / add a comment
international / rights, freedoms and repression Monday April 13, 2009 - 03:49 by NIFC
'It is as important today, as it was in any other time in Irish history for those of us who understand, appreciate and uphold those beliefs enshrined in the Easter proclamation to renew our efforts and allegiance and continue to strive for a 32 County Republic. We must persevere to promote the only reasonable solution to the conflict in Ireland. The removal of the British presence and the implementation of the Éıre Nua program'. ... read full story / add a comment
national / anti-capitalism Monday April 13, 2009 - 01:24 by Richard Whelan
The system of economics which we have lived by for well over a decade has given us the many benefits of a booming economy- higher wages, a better standard of living, and an overall sense of happiness and well being. But what of those left behind? What of the multi-national companies, and profit driven banks, who take full advantage of the elitist and greedy philosophy of this system driven totally by profit? It's time to ask ourselves tough questions of the system we live under and how it affects us in our own lives, and in the lives of the most vulnerable in society. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Saturday April 11, 2009 - 16:20 by Not Jimmy
4 comments (last - thursday april 23, 2009 - 14:54)  1 audio file
On Ocean FM's 'Paddy Clancy' show, (Saturday 11/04/09) , the Tánaiste informed listeners how everyone knows that shoppers are only going across the border for cheap booze. Appearently the €800million in vat revenues lost to cross border shopping is as a result of the legions of Irish people searching out bargain booze in the north of Ireland. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Thursday April 09, 2009 - 21:54 by Éanna Dowling
Brian Lenihan’s emergency supplementary bludget brings the curtain down on Ireland’s pantomime of excess. The workforce in Ireland willingly accepted twelve years of wage slavery when the goodies compensated for the grind, and the illusion of perpetual growth became the powerful myth underpinning the new consumer religion. More unreckonable years of wage slavery or welfare dependence await, as the personal and public debts accumulated during the boom must be paid for. ... read full story / add a comment
national / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday April 08, 2009 - 19:14 by Éanna Dowling
4 comments (last - tuesday april 14, 2009 - 20:47)
Irish workers will bail out the bankers and the speculators following a decisive emergency budget. All workers will have reduced spending power as a result of tax increases while a new agency has been established to buy up “bad assets” with Government bonds. The income levy introduced in September has been doubled as has the health levy and minimum wage workers have been brought into the income tax system. Take home pay will be reduced for all workers in May. The deficit between Government income and expenditure is massive due to the bursting of the property bubble, banking mismanagement and the policy of positioning the country as the most “open” economy in Europe. That policy ensured that Ireland would be the most vulnerable to fluctuations in the globalised economy. Government borrowing will be over 10% of national income this year, but the main source of income to fix the problem is the increase in direct personal taxation. ... read full story / add a comment
national / miscellaneous Wednesday April 08, 2009 - 11:08 by Gregor Kerr
15 comments (last - friday april 10, 2009 - 15:17) 2 images
Lenihan’s budget has continued the political strategy of defending the wealthy. Where is the reaction? Where is the anger? ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Sunday April 05, 2009 - 22:14 by Mark Price
4 comments (last - friday april 10, 2009 - 18:36)
The Anti-NATO demonstration at Strasbourg - Kehl is disrupted by the strategic intervention of the police, but the attempt by the state to hide this strategy is in turn disrupted by the Black Block youth. This game is conducted at the level of the symbol. ... read full story / add a comment
national / consumer issues Saturday April 04, 2009 - 04:19 by Concerned Irish Citizen
6 comments (last - tuesday april 07, 2009 - 23:36)
This is a copy of a letter that I sent a few days ago to the Minister for Communications, Energy and Natural Resources Mr. Eamon Ryan. This letter was copied to all TD's, Senators and MEP's. The response I received from Mr. Ryan's office was that "the Minister of State, Mr Seán Power, T.D., has responsibility for this area." ... read full story / add a comment 
national / arts and media Thursday April 02, 2009 - 17:01 by Paul Larkin
4 comments (last - tuesday april 21, 2009 - 12:24) 5 images 1 attached file
(Henry McDonald is Ireland Correspondent for the Guardian newspaper) Having worked as a journalist and film maker for BBC Northern Ireland’s investigative programme Spotlight in the late 1980s through to 1994, and having also written a book about collusion between the British intelligence services and loyalist paramilitaries, I have had occasion to read a good many books about the most recent round of the Irish Troubles. Even the poorest of these books has had some redeeming quality, some insight, which for me, as an informed reader, provided a new understanding of some aspect of the Troubles. I regret to say that Henry McDonald’s latest book has no such redeeming feature. ... read full story / add a comment
international / crime and justice Wednesday April 01, 2009 - 23:34 by mconlon
Writer/Filmmaker based in Dublin seeks to interview individuals who have been indirectly or directly affected by aggravated assault or street crime. According to Garda figures there were 3800 incidents of this nature last year in Dublin alone. The aim of this project is to more fully understand the residual effects of post traumatic stress arising from unwarranted assault. In doing so it is hoped to investigate the healing process and resilience of the victim through shared experience. Interviews will be carried out with absolute discretion to the sensitivity of the subject and at the convenience of those willing to take part. ... read full story / add a comment
international / worker & community struggles and protests Wednesday April 01, 2009 - 17:52 by Jolly Red Giant
15 comments (last - tuesday april 07, 2009 - 19:27) 4 images
RTE Radio 1 had both Richard Boyd Barrett (People Before Profit) and Eamonn McCann (journalist and broadcaster) as contributors on the Spirit Moves programme with Myles Dungan on March 29th. Neither Boyd Barrett nor McCann declared their membership of the SWP (no surprise there). However the most disgraceful aspect of their contribution was the opening comments by Boyd Barrett who attacked the recent Lyndsey strike in Britain as 'racist' . ... read full story / add a comment
international / anti-war / imperialism Wednesday April 01, 2009 - 14:42 by Chicherin
Barack Obama’s Newroz message, which is supposed to represent a “new beginning” for relations between the US and the Islamic Republic has been greeted in many quarters. But we should more closely examine Obama's project in the Middle East and what he he wants to gain from Iran. This is no new beginning. The speech is just a continuation of the gunpoint diplomacy initiated by Dubya and continued by Obama. Bush himself gave out numerous messages of a similar nature during his presidency. The only difference is that Obama actually addresses the people and leaders of the Islamic Republic directly. ... read full story / add a comment
national / rights, freedoms and repression Sunday March 29, 2009 - 15:42 by Barra
13 comments (last - sunday november 08, 2009 - 13:36)
A mother who has been put through hell both here in Ireland and in Nigeria - doesn't it show what little difference there is with regard to basic human decency between the Irish and Nigerian authorities, the same persecution of the defenceless - such indifference, such arrogance, such fear, such selfishness, such inhumanity towards a mother and her two young children who just want a basic freedom to live in peace.
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antrim / worker & community struggles and protests Sunday March 29, 2009 - 15:07 by Sean Matthews- personal capacity
The outburst of condemnation from liberal commentators against the recent property damage to Sir Fred Goodwin’s privileges is nothing new. Indeed, for once they got a taste of their own medicine... ... read full story / add a comment |
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